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year-of-the-linux-desktop update:
The KDE crash reporter, Dr. Konqi, crashes.
This crash then invokes another instance of Dr. Konqi, which, crashes.
My system now has fifteen thousand failed systemd units. `systemctl` is timing out when the post-install hooks in the package manager invoke it.
AI in China: "This will help us do our jobs! It will make our lives easier!"
AI in the West: Ȁ̶̬L̶̫̕L̴̘̈ ̶̩̚Ṫ̸͍H̷̙̃Ȧ̴̱T̴͔̍ ̸̧̉I̴͖̐Ṡ̷͙ ̷͎̐S̸̭̈́O̶̲͊L̶͉͝Ḯ̵̳D̸̨̒ ̸͎̾M̷͙̌E̷͎̚L̴͠ͅT̶͕̽Š̷̪ ̸͖̓I̵̜̾Ń̸̜T̴͍̀Ò̸̤ ̸̤͗À̷̦I̷̖̾R̴̟̃
super excited to be able to talk about this now: my colleagues have developed constant-time preservation features for LLVM to ensure that optimisations don't negatively impact timing-sensitive code like cryptographic implementations. this is a huge step towards alleviating a decades-long standing thorn in the side of cryptographic implementations.
Trail of Bits developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21 that prevents compilers from breaking cryptographic implementations vulnerable to timing attacks, introducing the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics that preserve constant-time properties throughout compilation.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial