From Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20…

The Joy of Cryptography is finally on bookshelves! Thanks to The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social for supporting the adventure. The book will eventually be completely open-access, but for now the first 3 chapters are available at joyofcryptography.com, featuring some fun interactive elements.

This Stanford CS224n lecture is still one of the clearest explanations of transformer architecture. If you work with LLMs and want to understand what is actually happening inside the model, not just call an API, this is worth revisiting.

Malware development basics 0xf00sec.github.io/0x4a TLDR; This blog focus on execution flow hijacking, dynamic API, and stealth execution via low-level OS structures. Core concepts include direct access to the (PEB), evasion through runtime decryption, and shellcode injection.

A great start in understanding performance engineering. ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-…

some recent reads from this month that I've learned from and that are pretty cool 1. Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul 2. Triton Flash Attention Kernel Walkthrough: The Forward Pass nathanchen.me/public/Triton-… 3. This guy

MIT's "Distributed Systems" 📽️Lecture Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=… 📷Schedule: nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2020/sch…

One of the most amazing series of YouTube videos I ever watched. How to build an Operating System: • CPU, Assembly, Booting • BIOS and Keyboard Inputs • Stack, Functions, Segmentation • disk i/o • Protected mode • Writing a kernel Watch it here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Reverse Engineering For Beginners – XOR encryption – Windows x64 networkintelligence.ai/blogs/reverse-…

Vol:19 No:2 → Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1…

You don't need a tremendous level of skill or insight to do many important things. The world is built by flawed people.

Bypassing secure boot on Raspberry RP2350 (paper) usenix.org/system/files/w… #infosec #embedded

#reversing #Kernel_Security #Sec_code_review Exploiting Reversing (ER) series: Part 1 - Windows kernel drivers (1) exploitreversing.com/2023/04/11/exp… Part 2 - Windows kernel drivers (2) exploitreversing.com/2024/01/03/exp… Part 3 - Chrome exploitreversing.com/2025/01/22/exp… Part 4 - macOS/iOS

CMU DB Group is brilliant, and hosts some of the best seminar series. This one nails modern cloud DB metadata, branching, and GC in a super approachable way. db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futured…

Mathematics of Choice by Ivan Niven PDF: mathsmartinthomas.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Compression is quite an interesting area and can have significant impact on the performance. I liked this book that covers many aspects of compression - from basics to advanced techniques.

I was going through the The Pragmatic Engineer podcast on How AWS S3 is built, where Mai-Lan was speaking about data structures like replicated journal and cache coherency protocol for implementing strong consistency in S3. Indeed a very insightful discussion .. link to the podcast:

Reverse engineering the TP-Link Tapo C260 camera by spaceraccoon | Eugene Lim spaceraccoon.dev/reverse-engine… #infosec

Great article johnnysswlab.com/latency-sensit…