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The Digital Antiquarian
• Jimmy Maher
This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated to and really good at preserving the history of their hobby. Seldom has a […]
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Contextual clues.
The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
In July 1983, one of my personal favorite Commodore computer magazines of all time, Compute!’s Gazette, was born. An offshoot of the general computer magazine Compute!, Gazette’s first issue was dated July 1983 and quickly proved successful, closely following the
The post Compute!’s Gazette magazine, 1983-1995 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
I can't recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it's often attributed back to me, I'll relay it here regardless:
Trying to delete yourself
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.
Geoffrey Litt
• Geoffrey Litt
This is a written version of a talk I gave at the AI Engineer conference in July 2026, also shared as a tweet thread.
Hot take: I think it's still important to understand the code that our agents...
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that.
The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Afgelopen 25 juni deed ik het openingspraatje van de Surf Privacy en Security Conferentie. Nou heb ik vaker over digitale autonomie gesproken, maar deze keer heb ik het nadrukkelijk meer over wat er nu moet gebeuren. Of zoals de titel zegt “en nu echt”. Ondanks dat ik nu letterlijk meer dan 50 praatjes over dit onderwerp heb gegeven had ik nog niet eerder de moeite genomen een goed transcript te maken.
Terence Eden’s Blog
• @edent
Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: <!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB> There's a reason for that. It is more than the…
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On July 2, 1984, Atari got a new owner. After a disastrous 1983, its owner, Warner Communications, wanted out, just a year and a half after Atari had $2 billion in sales. It went from being called the greatest acquisition
The post Jack Tramiel and Atari appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
