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FROST attack uses SSD timing to fingerprint browsers and spy on open apps
Researchers have demonstrated FROST (Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing), a browser-based side-channel attack that infers what other websites a
Go's httptrace: Per-Request Hooks for DNS, TLS, and TTFB Timing
Go's net/http/httptrace package, in the standard library since 1.7, exposes hooks for the internal phases of an outgoing HTTP request — DNS resolution, connecti
Indirect prompt injection in ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates entire workbook trees
PromptArmor researchers showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT extension for Google Sheets, which racked up 185,000 downloads within a month of launch, could be hijacked
KDE Turns 30: The Free Desktop Project Behind WebKit and Blink
KDE is marking its 30th anniversary with community events, fundraising appeals, and a retrospective on three decades of free software development. The project i
Meta Rolls Out Paid Tiers Across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and AI
Meta has globally launched consumer subscriptions for its three flagship apps: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99/month, and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99/month
Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark: Blackwell-Based Superchip with 128GB Unified Memory
Nvidia has introduced RTX Spark, a new superchip platform combining a Blackwell-generation RTX GPU with what the company calls its most power-efficient CPU desi
Only 17% of 64-bit integers factor into two 32-bit integers
A counterintuitive number-theory result: while multiplying two 32-bit integers can produce any 64-bit value in range, the set of 64-bit integers actually expres
Remote work, not AI, may explain the collapse in junior hiring
The prevailing narrative blames AI for the sharp decline in entry-level hiring, but a competing explanation deserves attention: remote and hybrid work has quiet
Running Gemma 4 26B on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU — and making it fast
A recycled server with a 2016 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4, 128 GB of DDR3 RAM, and no GPU has no business running a 26B-parameter mixture-of-experts model — but with
Running Windows-only GOG DOS games on Apple Silicon via DOSBox for Mac
A walkthrough for getting GOG's Windows-only DOS classics like Heroes of Might & Magic II and Settlers II running natively on M-series Macs, sidestepping the sl
Stanford's CS336 ships a CLAUDE.md telling AI tutors to coach, not code
Stanford's CS336 has published a CLAUDE.md aimed at AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT — that students point at the course repo. The i
Stanford's CS336 Walks Students Through Building a Language Model End-to-End
Stanford's CS336 takes the build-an-OS-from-scratch pedagogical approach and applies it to language models. Across five assignments, students implement a Transf