Linguistics
Ko te mōhiotanga huna o te hunga kore kōrero i te reo Māori The first linguistics paper written in Maori, with an English summary.Secret code of King Charles V cracked Some of these characters remind me of Voynichese, but it's probably convergence of what sort of not-quite-Latin symbols native Latin users will make up on the spot.
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered To be clear, this is the oldest alphabetic sentence, not the oldest sentence of any kind (Cuneiform and hieroglyphics are older)
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science Gives many specific examples of how languages around the world influence how people think and act.
Programming
C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore in the sense that it's more of a protocol. Deals with FFI (Foreign Function Interface)How Much Does Rust's Bounds Checking Actually Cost? (Hint: almost nothing)
Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically! Attempting to compete with handwritten assembly.
Infosec
Now You C Me Now You Don't part 1 / part 2 An introduction to the hidden attack surface of interpreted languages (quite long). Also deals with FFI.How security professionals are being attacked: A study of malicious CVE proof of concept exploits in GitHub Some of them are just researchers taking measurements, but there are a nontrivial amount of genuine malicious fake pocs on github.
Poking A Mobile Hotspot If my customer turned this smoldering heap in to me I would demand their product manager to sacrifice to the gods for atonement.
Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel A longread going from initial audit to full exploitation.
Sludge for Good: Slowing and Imposing Costs on Cyber Attackers Theorizes about user experience antipatterns to drive attackers up the wall. However, you cannot possibly expect me to say "cyber sludge" with a straight face
How to Reverse Engineer and Patch an iOS Application for Beginners This is indeed very introductory.
A Personal History of the AppSec Industry rare abadidea lore: while I am too young to have been a member of the l0pht, they (the ones who stayed in Massachusetts) did like, raise me into a proper bug hunter.
An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software, part 1 / part 2 Not too long, but may help you get some concrete direction.
Machine Learning
Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning My classicist friend was baffled they named it after Cicero but this is a good combination of chatbot with actual domain-specific knowledge.Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding Good news, science is one step closer to tearing a gaping maw in the fabric of ethics!
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