A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall
If you love exploit mitigations, you may have heard of a new system call named mseal landing into the Linux kernel’s 6.10 release, providing a protection called “memory sealing.” Beyond notes from the authors, very little information about this...
Google expands Responsible GenAI Toolkit
Google has enhanced its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit for building and evaluating open generative AI models, expanding the toolkit with watermarking for AI content and with prompt refining and debugging features. The new features are designed to w...
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Lin...
A look at risk, regulation, and lock-in
“We’re from the government, and we are here to help!” has been a laugh line for many years, but clearly, there are some good aspects to government involvement in how enterprises consume IT resources, including cloud computing. While major cloud ...
A look at risk, regulation, and lock-in in the cloud
“We’re from the government, and we are here to help!” has been a laugh line for many years, but clearly, there are some good aspects to government involvement in how enterprises consume IT resources, including cloud computing. While major cloud ...
FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux
Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of ...
JetBrains offers free use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs
Select developers now are getting free access to JetBrains’ WebStorm and Rider IDEs. The company on October 24 announced it has launched non-commercial licenses for its WebStorm JavaScript and TypeScript IDE and the Rider cross-platform .NET and gam...
