Tarmageddon Open Source Abandonware
This vulnerability impacts major, widely-used projects, including uv (Astral’s lightning-fast Python package manager), testcontainers, and wasmCloud. Due to the widespread nature of tokio-tar in various forms, it is not possible to truly quantify upfront the blast radius of this bug across the ecosystem. While the active forks have been successfully patched (see also Astral Security […]
MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
Hello, I did not find a new image for the security release Security/CVE RELEASE.2025-10-15T17-29-55Z, on quay.io nor DockerHub. Is it expected? If it isn’t, can you please push a new release for this installation method? Thank you. 👍React with 👍22Weetile, dpieski, expilu, justsomescripts, StrangePeanut and 17 more
MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only
Hello, I did not find a new image for the security release Security/CVE RELEASE.2025-10-15T17-29-55Z, on quay.io nor DockerHub. Is it expected? If it isn’t, can you please push a new release for this installation method? Thank you. 👍React with 👍18Weetile, dpieski, expilu, justsomescripts, StrangePeanut and 13 more
Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo
Strix Halo is the codename for AMD’s highest end mobile chip, which is used in the Ryzen AI MAX series. It combines a powerful CPU with 16 Zen 5 cores and a large GPU with 20 RDNA 3.5 Workgroup Processors (WGPs). The sizeable iGPU makes Strix Halo particularly interesting because GPUs have high bandwidth requirements. […]
Magic sizes enable high-fidelity assembly of programmable shells
Abstract:Recent advances in synthetic methods enable designing subunits that self-assemble into structures with precise, finite sizes and well-defined architectures, but yields are frequently suppressed by the formation of off-target metastable structures. Increasing the complexity (the number of distinct subunit types) can inhibit off-target structures, but leads to slower kinetics and higher synthesis costs. Here, we […]
Daniel J. Bernstein updated cdb (Constant database) to go beyond 4GB
cdb: Intro cdb is a fast, reliable, simple package for creating and reading constant databases. The cdb database structure provides several features: Fast lookups: A successful lookup in a large database normally takes just two disk accesses. An unsuccessful lookup takes only one. Low overhead: A database uses 2048 bytes (or 4096 bytes for cdb64), […]
“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment
And Oxycyte was ideal for the group’s 2021 Ig Nobel-winning efforts. The experiments involved intra-anally administering oxygen gas or a liquid oxygenated perfluorocarbon to the unfortunate rodents and porcines. Yes, they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure and evaluated the effectiveness of the intra-anal treatment. The result: Both treatments were pretty darned […]
The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Niagara Falls is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. With a vertical drop of more than 50 meters or 164 feet and a flow rate that often exceeds 2800 cubic meters per second or 100,000 cubic feet per second, it’s […]
Designing software for things that rot
The white mold was good. The green-grey mold was probably fine. The fuzzy black spot was… well, that’s when I ended up in a midnight rabbit hole of forum posts debating whether that particular shade of black meant penicillium or something that would send me to hospital. I had photos, I had descriptions, I had […]
Lottery-fication of Everything: 0 day options, perps, parlays are now mainstream
The breakout finance products of the past decade converge around a single design: a highly engineered lottery. Small, low probability bets with asymmetric upside. Narrative appeal so you can craft a story around your bet. Based on luck, but gives you an illusion of skill. Rapid feedback loops so you win or, more likely, lose […]