Report on the Sunway TaihuLight System (PDF), by Jack Dongarra. The new #1 on the TOP500.
Samsung acquires Joyent, and A CTO’s perspective
Discrete Logarithms in GF(p), 768 bits now broken.
Checked C is an extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts.
ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real time. From Yandex, Apache-2.0 licensed.
Loop-Oriented Programming: A New Code Reuse Attack to Bypass Modern Defenses (PDF), by Bingchen Lan, Yan Li, Hao Sun, Chao Su, Yao Liu, and Qingkai Zeng.
Twenty years of free software, Joey Hess on his projects.
Sisal is a unique parallel language that supports a clean, fully implicit parallelization model.
jadx, a Android Dex to Java decompiler.
Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive, “There have long been rumors that Mr. Dylan had stashed away an extensive archive. It is now revealed that he did keep a private trove of his work, dating back to his earliest days as an artist, including lyrics, correspondence, recordings, films and photographs.” What a treasure trove.
Typeset In The Future: Blade Runner, thorough analysis of Blade Runner typography.