Memory Integrity Enforcement is the culmination of a truly incredible amount of work :)

While there's so much to love, one of my favorite pieces was getting to bring kalloc_type-style isolation to out-of-bounds accesses on both the architectural and speculative path. This lets us both mitigate a variety of Spectre v1 style attacks and break the reliable exploitation of some of the most powerful first-order memory corruption primitives (arb offset OOB R/W).

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

🧵So, here's an updated tl;dr on #Puppet as an #OpenSource project: a fork is absolutely coming now. There was a "town hall" today in which Perforce made it quite clear they are going to claim they want to work with the community while not actually doing so. As a result, those of us who have been following this closely reassembled, determined there was no longer hope of really working together, and that it was time to move forward accordingly.

(this thread is my personal take on things)

End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.
For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has end…
#hardware
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

Holy shit, my wife just found this on the top of a container of collagen that we just bought from #Costco:
“By opening and using this product, you agree to be bound by our terms and conditions fully set forth at vitalproteins.com/tc, which include a mandatory arbitration agreement. If you do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately.”

What. The. Actual. Fuck.