Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
TL;DR: React and Next.js are vulnerable in default configurations to unauthenticated RCE with no prerequisites. Our exploitation tests show that a standard Next.js application created via create-next-app and built for production is vulnerable without any specific code modifications by the developer. A critical vulnerability has been identified in the React Server Components (RSC) “Flight” protocol, […]
MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
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Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?
Background I use rust with my own engine working on an isometric-perspective game inspired from Gnomoria, RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, etc. Whenever I started my game, my headphones were buzzing. I could play Fortnite, Overwatch or any other game and that doesn’t cause my headphones to buzz. It’s only my game. And it’s really annoying, as […]
Mapping Every Dollar of America’s $5T Healthcare System
Mapping Every Dollar of America’s $5 Trillion Healthcare System A representation of the US Healthcare Financing Flow Sankey diagram in the style of Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms in Nature. 11 minute read time Follow the money and you might get lost. That’s why I made a diagram for the entire US healthcare system’s financial flows […]
GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
Given multi-view images of an exemplar scene, our goal is to construct Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (GSWT) that can be tiled on arbitrary surfaces and rendered in real time with our novel GSWT renderer. An overview of the entire pipeline is illustrated below. We begin by reconstructing the 3DGS exemplar at multiple LODs. For each […]
Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
We thank comments from Sumit Agarwal, Ron Kaniel, Roni Michaely, Lyndon Moore, Antoinette Schoar, and seminar/conference participants at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia Business School, Deakin University, Macquarie University, Peking University (HSBC and Guanghua), Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Tsinghua University, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, 2023 Australasian Finance […]
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
It’s no surprise to see modern AAA games occupying hundreds of gigabytes of storage these days, especially if you are gaming on a PC. But somehow, Arrowhead Game Studios, the developers behind the popular co-op shooter Helldivers 2, have managed to substantially cut the game’s size by 85%. As per a recent post on Steam, […]
You Can’t Fool the Optimizer
You can’t fool the optimiser Written by me, proof-read by an LLM. Details at end. Sometimes you’ll step through code in a debugger and find a complex-looking loop… that executes as a single instruction. The compiler saw through the obfuscation and generated the obvious code anyway. Consider this assortment of highly questionable unsigned addition routines […]
The “Mad Men” in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
Reader warning: there’s gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you’ve fired up HBO Max recently, you’ve probably seen that one of the most influential and prestigious television series of all time was to premiere in 4K on the streaming service. The show’s first four seasons were shot on film, […]
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft’s AI obsession has ruined the service
The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site’s decline. The drama began in April 2025 when GitHub user AlekseiNikiforovIBM started a thread titled “safe_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely.” GitHub addressed the problem in August, but didn’t reveal that in the thread, which […]