Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
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When something breaks in production, you find out fast. Understanding why it broke, before the damage spreads, is the hard part. That is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams lose the most time. Think about the last time you got paged at 2 a.m. The alert said something broke, not why. You open four or […]
It was an afternoon when one of our reconciliation flows started throwing NullPointerExceptions in production. The fix, once we found it, was two lines. Finding those two lines took nearly six hours. Three engineers and endless log grepping. Tracing through an integration application with JSF UI that predates most of the libraries we take for granted today. No modern APIs exposed. No clean service boundary to isolate the problem. Just a chain of legacy integration points that required someone to
Relativity Space’s CEO is former Google executive Eric Schmidt. | Image: Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the "spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations" to fly Aeolus to Mars, where the payload will "provide the first integrated, daily, global view o
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected devices will carry this flaw for as long as they stay in use. This is not a remote attack. It requires
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature portfolio of EDR-terminating tools is centered around a framework that's known as GentleKiller. "They also incorporate third-party or
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