Assorted links for Monday, July 22:
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Today is (Un)Happy Crowdstrike Day! Assorted links for Friday, July 19:
- What Is CrowdStrike, the Company Behind Today’s Global Tech Outage?
- Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion
- Your IT Department Might Need Your Help Fixing the CrowdStrike Outage
- Reddit CrowdStrike Thread
- Technical Details on Today’s Outage (Crowdstrike Blog)
My immediate thoughts are as follows:
- Monocultures are inherently fragile and an high-value attack target. This applies whether you’re talking about Windows running 95%+ of desktops, CrowdStrike running 50%+ of Fortune 500 computers, or all Cavendish bananas being genetic clones of each other – an attack on one can easily become an attack on all. Sometimes it pays to not make the same choice as everyone else. Think security through diversity.
- All automatic software deployment processes must always use progressive deployment with metric-based success gates and a straightforward, regularly-tested rollback process. If you can’t meet these requirements, you don’t deserve the ability to deploy your software automatically.
Assorted links for Wednesday, July 17:
- Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy
- Report: Alphabet close to $23 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz
- Docker Best Practices: Choosing Between RUN, CMD, and ENTRYPOINT
- fs-verity: read-only file-based authenticity protection
- Memory-allocation profiling for the kernel
Assorted links for Tuesday, July 16:
- Linux 6.11 To Introduce Block Atomic Writes - Including NVMe & SCSI Support
- Device Memory TCP Nears The Finish Line For More Efficient Networked Accelerators
- Why every quantum computer will need a powerful classical computer
- turbopuffer: fast search on object storage
- Performance Improvements in .NET 6
Assorted links for Monday, July 15:
- “We’re Living in a Nightmare:” Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
- Ubuntu 24.10 To Enable Frame Pointers For More Packages: tl;dr: don’t use
-fomit-frame-pointeranymore. - State of Text Rendering 2024
- Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster’s ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets
- Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
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Assorted links for Tuesday, July 9:
- A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Postman’s Data Team Works
- How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem
- Forecasting SQL query resource usage with machine learning
- Linux x86 Program Start Up or - How the heck do we get to main()? by Patrick Horgan
- Deploy without credentials with GitHub Actions and OIDC
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