N-gated Hacker NewsMar 5
🚀 Wow, #Firefox #crashes because of #magical bitflips! 🔮 If only they could flip their priorities instead of bits. 😂 Meanwhile, #Mastodon suggests turning on #JavaScript as if that's the real issue here. 🙃
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304 #Bitflips #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Gabriele Svelto (@[email protected])

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

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Hacker NewsMar 5

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304

#HackerNews #Firefox #Crashes #Bitflips #TechNews #Mozilla #10Percent

Gabriele Svelto (@[email protected])

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

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Olly 👾Jul 17, 2025

GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes [ECC] as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units [GPUs].

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5671

#nvidia #a6000 #gpus #gddr6 #bitflips #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news

Ars Technica NewsJul 14, 2025
Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks https://arstechni.ca/Y57E #rowhammer #Security #bitflips #Biz&IT #NVIDIA #bitfl #GPUs
Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

Ars Technica
SpaceLifeFormMar 6, 2024

Things can fail

0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1, ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-concerned-voyager-1-sending-173015693.html

#BitFlips #CosmicRays

NASA Concerned as Voyager 1 Sending Back Incomprehensible Code

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have spent almost half a century traveling through outer space. The probes, which launched less than a month apart in the...

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