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Submission + - Who needs Rust? compile_assert works with GCC and Clang today! (github.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: This approach pushes detection to compile time, catching memory issues before the code ever runs, and it works with standard GCC and Clang, no compiler changes required.

C and C++ deliver unmatched performance, but decades of legacy code mean plenty of undiscovered memory bugs still lurking.

Most defenses today are runtime-only. You find out something’s wrong after soak tests, crashes, or a core dump in production. For safety critical systems such as medical, automotive, aviation this is a serious risk.

Less guesswork. Fewer crashes. Same performance.

Comment Prime Price Hike Scam More Like! See BBC (Score 2) 120

by now3djp on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:02PM (#56958894) Attached to: Amazon Suffers Glitches at the Start of Prime Day

See on the BBC

Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'
By Brian Milligan
Personal Finance reporter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus...

Submission + - Huge security risks in PDF standard (h-online.com)

Submitted by crabel on Saturday January 01, 2011 @08:25AM

crabel writes: At the 27. Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin security researcher Julia Wolf pointed out numerous, previously hardly known, security problems in connection with Adobe's PDF standard. For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer.

Submission + - Ubisoft's Draconian DRM Patched? (pcgamer.com)

Submitted by on Friday December 31, 2010 @07:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: It appears that Ubisoft's controversial DRM scheme launched earlier this year that required players to have a permanent connection to the Internet has been patched, though an Internet connection is still required when starting the game.

Submission + - Zimbabwe govt websites hit by pro-WikiLeaks DDoS (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 31, 2010 @04:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: Pro-WikiLeaks hacktivists have struck a blow against the-powers-that-be in Zimbabwe, bringing down three government websites through denial-of-service attacks.

The distributed-denial-of-service attacks appear to be in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading.

The Zimbabwe government's online portal at www.gta.gov.zw and the official ZANU-PF website continue to be offline, and the Finance Ministry's website now displays a message saying it is under maintenance.

Misc (data lost)

Submitted by now3djp on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @07:56PM

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Comment "leaks"? (Score 1) 363

by now3djp on Monday May 15, 2006 @07:44PM (#15338983) Attached to: New Windows Media Player Leaks

So that's not memory leaks this time? ;p

RMS Views on Linux, Java, DRM and Opensource 546

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @06:11PM from the priming-the-flame-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "All About Linux is running a transcript of a recent talk given by Richard Stallman at the Australian National University. Stallman discussed various issues facing GNU like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, about why one should not install sun's java on your computer, his views on Opensource as well as why he thinks people should address Linux distribution as GNU/Linux."

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