The Orca initiative aims to
produce a unified platform and set of APIs to develop, distribute and
run sandboxed graphical applications on a variety of operating
systems.
IBM’s Latest Quantum Supercomputer Idea: The Hybrid Classical-Quantum System
Although quantum processors exist today, they are still a long way off from becoming practical replacements for classical computers. This is due to many practical considerations, not the least of w…
The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (commonly shortened to First Draft) is an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC project. It contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept, which has come to be known as the von Neumann architecture; the name has become controversial due to von Neumann's failure to name other contributors.
Reverse-Engineering The AMD Secure Processor Inside The CPU
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic CPU core(s) functionality, or so things used to be until Intel introduced its Management Engine (IME)…
Reversing the AMD Secure Processor (PSP) - Part 2: Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP)
Part one: https://dayzerosec.com/blog/2023/04/17/reversing-the-amd-secure-processor-psp.html
This is a follow-up part 2 to my previous post on the AMD Secure Processor (formerly known as the Platform Security Processor or "PSP"). In that post, I mentioned that the Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP) is an essential component of how the PSP functions. It's primarily responsible for hardware-accelerated cryptography, but it's also used as a Direct Memory Access (DMA) copy engine for doing mass copy
gRPC-Gateway servers on AWS Lambda using Unix domain sockets
I’ve really enjoyed using gRPC-Gateway to build gRPC/JSON-over-HTTP (RESTful) APIs in Go for quite a few years now. However, at first glance, itappears to be...
The Architecture of Network-Aware Domain Name System (DNS)
This document describes a framework which extends the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide network awareness to applications. The framework enables DNS system responses that are dependent on communication service requirements such as QoS or path without changes in the format of DNS protocol messages or application program interfaces (APIs). The different enhancement methods and use cases are discussed.
Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. And if there is one person who is not worried about how
OpenTelemetry is not merely an observability platform, but also a set of best practices and standards that can be integrated into platform engineering or DevOps.
A decoupled approach to relaying events between Stimulus controllers
Part of the allure of Stimulus is that you can
attach rich, dynamic behavior to the DOM without building out a long-lived
stateful application in the browser.…