A developer who goes by sandwich fixed three places where KVM breaks the AMD64 spec and scrubbed QEMU's emulator fingerprints, taking a Windows guest from 10 VMAware detections to 1.
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A developer who goes by sandwich fixed three places where KVM breaks the AMD64 spec and scrubbed QEMU's emulator fingerprints, taking a Windows guest from 10 VMAware detections to 1.
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Dylan McDonald's Respring project runs seven 32-bit iOS games, including Peggle, Koi Pond and Chuzzle, on current iPhones through a modified touchHLE runtime. He says an AI agent wrote most of the code.
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A captured instruction set wraps someone else's open model endpoint in stacked jailbreak layers, hands it 74 offensive tools and lets it run up to 100,000 steps with no human, on the endpoint owner's inference bill.
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AWS engineer Marc Brooker turned traces from a real test environment into animations of metastable failure: Postgres 16 falling out of page cache, etcd write storms, and an etcd read spike that leaves it stuck in garbage collection until someone steps in.
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A free, GPL-licensed switcher keeps Command-Tab to the Space you're on, puts every window from every Space behind Option-Tab, and turns the desktop-change animation down to Instant. On macOS 27 it adds, merges and removes Spaces from the same overlay.
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A closed-source Popcorn Time fork kept polling update domains nobody owned, over plain HTTP with no code signing, ready to run whatever came back as SYSTEM or root. Defenders got there first.
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Dropped bits left three copies of one routing update with sequence numbers 8, 40 and 44, and each looked newer than another. Every node kept passing all three around and couldn't stop.
HotWired launched with 468-by-60 banners from 14 advertisers, Zima among them. AT&T's read "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will." and 44 percent of viewers clicked.
Apple pulled the 11-inch MacBook Air from its online store, and that was the whole announcement. The smallest Mac laptop of its day left without a eulogy.
Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, its six-second video app, on the same day it announced layoffs. Co-founder Rus Yusupov responded with a tweet of advice: don't sell your company.
Mario's new hat, Cappy, let him capture enemies and take them over. The Switch game sold over two million copies in three days, or 463 a minute.
2012: A Raspberry Pi's memory: 256 MB. Today: 16 GB. The original Raspberry Pi Model B launched on 29 February 2012 with 256 MB; the Raspberry Pi 5 comes with up to 16 GB and a 2.4 GHz quad-core CPU, and 16,384 MB divided by 256 MB is 64 times the memory.
