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The IEC has this really neat webpage for exploring electrical plug type usage around the world

https://www.iec.ch/world-plugs

title text: The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz.

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It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"
Couldn't not do this
When you think about it, we really should call "Tesla autopilot" vibe driving
Most relatable thing I've seen an AI say so far, to be honest.
Started playing the original hollow knight. I can totally see why this games so popular. I love the atmosphere

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/

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research
I have often stated that well-implemented memory tagging will be a game changer for memory corruptions. And it seems that with the next iPhone it's finally here: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research