Sci-fi and Hi-fi – IEEE Spectrum

Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992 novel Snow Crash. IEEE Spectrum has a […]

bitcoind – Intermittent connection issues – ‘DataStream::read(): end of data: unspecified iostream_category error’

2 nodes run by me locally sometime connect sometime not and getting ‘Connection refused’ error on the node I am connecting from. On the node I am connecting to debug.log error message display the following error: ProcessMessages(version, 115 bytes): Exception ‘DataStream::read(): end of data: unspecified iostream_category error’ (NSt3__18ios_base7failureE) caught Background: Attempting to connect 2 local […]

Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety

Google’s Project Zero reports that memory safety vulnerabilities—security defects caused by subtle coding errors related to how a program accesses memory—have been “the standard for attacking software for the last few decades and it’s still how attackers are having success”. Their analysis shows two thirds of 0-day exploits detected in the wild used memory corruption […]

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