Destructive flooding in Brazil ⤵️ Strong storms brought torrential rain to Rio Grande do Sul. In some areas, more than 300 millimeters (12 inches) of rain fell in less than a week. #Landsat captured Porto Alegre’s flooded downtown area on May 8. go.nasa.gov/4alOu9y

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On July 4th 1994, unknown to me, a significant milestone was achieved when I submitted my PhD thesis on Reverse Compilation Techniques at QUT. The impact of this project in the computer security field has been profound, shaping the industry in then unforeseen ways. 1 out of 5.

Update from Brazil 🇧🇷 WCK’s Trish is in the Ilha da Pintada area just east of Porto Alegre. Communities along the river here remain badly flooded and in urgent need of support. Our team first arrived with sandwiches last week and is now supporting residents with hot meals.

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WCK teams have provided more than 110,000 meals in southern Brazil since first responding to flooding in the region. Since serving our first meals 12 days ago, we have established a Relief Kitchen in Porto Alegre and partnered with local NGOs and restaurants to ensure meals reach

Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies Copying data in software is cheap, but it is not at all free. As you start optimizing your code, you might find that copies become a performance bottleneck. Let me be clear that copies really are cheap. It is often more performant to

CrowdStrike has performed the largest ransomware attack in history. Accidentally.

I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out why xterm starts so slowly on Windows... and solved it with a dumb LD_PRELOAD hack 😆 lock.cmpxchg8b.com/slowterm.html

Breakthrough discoveries rarely happen overnight. Innovation is powered by iteration—it's the desire to dig deeper, test more and explore beyond the surface that pushes us to achieve the unthinkable and pave the way toward a better tomorrow.

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Announcing the Luiz André Barroso Award! The award recognizes and celebrates researchers from historically underrepresented communities who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. Learn how to nominate here: bit.ly/3AyJVMU #ACMAwards #Computing

Sun glint off the Mediterranean Sea (infrared and converted to black and white). When the sun reflects off the ocean, watery details unseen with normal lighting shows up. Small centimeter differences in ocean height become visible, revealing hidden currents. Here, naturally

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Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/investigatin…

Monitor GCC compile time developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/…

We are destroying software: antirez.com/news/145

BREAKING: Amii Chief Scientific Advisor, Richard S. Sutton, has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside Andrew Barto! Read the official Association for Computing Machinery announcement: hubs.la/Q039nZXM0 #TuringAward #AI #ReinforcementLearning

Congratulations to U of A computing science professor Richard Sutton, a trailblazer in reinforcement learning, on receiving the 2024 A.M. Turing Award—often called the "Nobel Prize of computing"! His groundbreaking work continues to shape the future of AI. Read more: