@nina_kali_nina AFAIK Casio did use SuperH in their dictionaries up to DataPlus 7 or so, and some strings in the firmware referenced “PVOS”. It’s relatively recently that they switched to ARM.

@pcy maybe this will be of use https://blog.quarkslab.com/emulating-rh850-architecture-with-unicorn-engine.html

@pcy NEC had one called SM850, still available from https://www.renesas.com/en/software-tool/pm

There was also a V850 model for OVPsim, but not sure if it’s still available after Imperas got acquired by Synopsys.

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Do LLMs actually help hackers reverse engineer and understand the software they want to exploit?

We ran the first fine-grained human study of LLMs + reverse engineering.
To appear at NDSS 2026.

Interested? Some quick findings in 🧵👇
Paper: https://www.zionbasque.com/files/papers/dec-synergy-study.pdf

PSA: I’ll be at #codeblue_jp next week in Tokyo. Website: https://codeblue.jp/
#reverseengineering #idapro #hexrays #idapython

I have an opportunity for an incredible leap in digitization capability for $1000. If I can get $1000 by one or multiple people, a process that is planned for years will spike downward to a huge degree. Sorry to be mysterious. Email me if you have a sack of cash you want to do something very good.

As the Wayback Machine approaches 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we want your help picking memorable ones to highlight.

Reply with your favorite pages to nominate them for the spotlight.

#WaybackMachine #WebHistory #internetarchive

We're headed to REcon Montreal later this month!
Give us a 👍 if you're going too.

Here’s where you can find us:
➥ Wed–Thurs: Supporting the next generation at Blackhoodie Training
➥ Friday: Join us for the "Beyond Decompilation" panel at 5pm
➥ All weekend: Spot us around, share your feedback & snag some swag!

We’re not at a booth, so keep an eye out for folks in Hex-Rays attire. 👀
OR, you can skip the hunt and schedule time with us here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0k_rjY0

@ge0rg thanks!

A few more additions to that famous 'wat? javascript' talk:

>>> [] * 2
0
>>> [] + []
""
>>> {} + {}
NaN
>>> {} * 2
Unexpected token '*':1

WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

P.S. it seems the compression algorithm is called "RELC": https://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/JP/archive/imgjp/group/fei/services/fei/compress/relcfmc16.pdf

@joxean https://github.com/syscall7/oda

TIL that most people cannot in fact bend their thumb in both directions, it's just the most useless genetic superpower ever. Never even realized it's not normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiker%27s_thumb

Add that to the list of weird genetic traits like sneezing because of the sun or thinking that cilantro tastes like soap.

Dear lazywebs:

I wish I could find this old story from Internet Lore, but there was a compression challenge posted on...I think usenet? or something, for coming up with an algorithm to compress a file of the author's choosing. Basically, someone posted that 'anything can be compressed', this actual computer scientist chimed in that that's not true. The 'anything can be compressed' person offered to prove their claim.

So the gauntlet was thrown, the CS person created a good random data file and said lots of luck. The noob 'compressed' the data by simply splitting it up across multiple files. They found some coincidental sequence in the random data that occurred more often than others (like, a sequence of 3 bytes in a row, happening a few times in the data), and split the data into a new file each time the pattern occured.

They didn't win of course, since by splitting the data into files requires filesystem overhead (inodes, filenames, all of which take up more space than was gained back through ommiting the N-byte sequence).

It was a great writeup for me as a young computer science person though, got me to think about a lot of stuff all at one time.

I'm betting someone on here has a link to the story...

@ge0rg Thanks! Judging by the readable text fragments, it's most likely some variation of LZSS or LZ77 but I didn't manage to figure out the exact parameters so far.

@ge0rg got firmware images?

Paged Out! #6 has arrived! And it's jam-packed with content!
You can download it here:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

@joxean gnutella maybe?