Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne July 28, 2026 RADV is the open source Mesa Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs. Over the years, it has become a cornerstone of the Linux graphics stack. It has now effectively become the de facto Vulkan driver for … Read more
It’s not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the apartheid system in South Africa, and code that was used for secure communication using … Read more
It’s has beed a long time since my last post. I was researching the scheduling problem in the Hay Day game for a while. And now is the good time to share the result with you. What is Hay Day? … Read more
With Meta’s Messenger application for macOS being so close to the Texts.com model—that being a standalone desktop application—Batuhan İçöz who is leading the Meta platform project at Texts.com thought we could gain some valuable insight by analyzing it. Everyone knows … Read more
Theodore Nash June 1, 1952, was Whitsunday, and provided the young Michael Ventris with a convenient break from his duties as an architect. At the end of the day he would write his 20th Work Note on Minoan Language Research, … Read more
In this post I will go into technical details on what attackers could do with the stolen encrypted vaults, specifically how they could use tools like Hashcat to crack the master vault password and get access to sensitive log-in credentials. … Read more
Offensive Pentesting John the Ripper is a password-cracking tool that can crack hundreds of hashes, ciphers, and even password-protected files. If you are a pen-tester, cracking passwords is something you will be doing on a daily basis. This can include … Read more
Sneakers takes place in the tiny moment when the analog world overlapped with the coming digital revolution, represented by the rare blending of these two realms on display here. And while there is plenty of computer hacking included, it’s all … Read more
I recently read “Adventure Time: Volume 1”, a comic book based on the smart animated series of the same name. In the comic, I found some odd looking messages at the bottom of two pages, which turned out to be encrypted text. Here’s how, with a … Read more
Outline 1. Introduction This blog post proposes an approach to crack Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) using machine learning. By cracking here, we mean that we can predict the sequence of the random numbers using previously generated numbers without the knowledge … Read more