"It works on my machine"—9 places where the same code and commands silently take on different meanings depending on where they run

"It works on my machine." I'm sure you've said it or heard it at least once—in code reviews, in chat, or during incident post ...
BleepingComputer

HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload

A vulnerability dubbed HollowByte allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on OpenSSL servers with a malicious payload of just 11 bytes. The OpenSSL team has ...
PC Gamer

'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel

This is because Copy Fail could potentially leave a large number of Linux users exposed—if you've not updated your kernel in a hot minute, now would be the time. Theori puts it succinctly in its write ...
QSR magazine

Yum! Brands’ Byte Platform Rewrites Playbook for Restaurant Technology

At a time when restaurants are juggling an increasingly complex web of digital tools, Yum! Brands is betting that simplification—not more fragmentation—is the path forward. The company’s answer is ...
Ars Technica

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The ...
Reuters

ByteDance valued at $550 billion in proposed share sale by General Atlantic, sources say

NEW YORK/HONG KONG, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Investment firm General Atlantic is selling an equity stake in ByteDance in a deal that values the Chinese social media giant at $550 billion, two people with ...
whatnow

Byte Launching in Temple Terrace With Halal Burgers, Shakes, and More

A brand-new smash burger concept is joining the growing ranks of restaurants serving up no-frills halal burgers in the Tampa Bay area. Opening on February 18 at 10935 N 56 th St in Temple Terrace, ...
Phys.org

Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...
howtogeek

Stop crashing your Python scripts: How Zarr handles massive arrays

Shubhankar Gahlot is a machine learning engineer and MLOps architect with over five years of experience working across research and industry. He has built machine learning and data engineering systems ...
GitHub

generics: There seems to be no way to infer or use arbitrary-sized byte arrays

func main() { s:= [11]byte{'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'} str:= ToString(&s) } func ToString[???](arr *BA) string { return unsafe.String ...
9to5Mac

A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate

Ah, 2010. The year when Apple launched the iPad, but the limelight was stolen by something else entirely: Antennagate. Soon after the launch of the iPhone 4, users discovered that when they held the ...