Coinkite said it’s likely that an attacker used AI to review previous versions of its open source firmware to uncover a vulnerability.

Jonah Uellenberg won the Ping Pong Prize at the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest earlier this month, with a version of Pong that recompiles its own source code on every frame. Each run of ...

(Registered attendees: Sign in to your USENIX account to download these files.) Together with his colleagues, Bugnion received the ACM Software System Award for VMware in 2009. His paper on “Disco” ...

lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd" images; of course this also means that different kernel images can ...