Your kid has a toy remote control fire truck. You have an RTL SDR. See where this is going? [Jacob] couldn’t resist tearing into the why and how of the truck’s remote control protocol. The entire ...

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions ...

Reverse-engineering lithography machines—the equipment on which advanced computer chips are manufactured—is not as straightforward as copying most industrial designs. In the race between innovators ...

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