David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explains how CHERI enables spatial and temporal memory safety for ...

IBM and Red Hat have launched Lightwell to automate vulnerability remediation across enterprise open-source software deployments. The commercial release introduces Lightwell Network and Lightwell ...

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The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is a key component of your system that enables it to function. Whatever you see on your screen is processed by the CPU. It’s the core of your computer; you can ...

While there are already a bunch of tools around to measure hardware performance counters, a lightweight command line tool for simple end-to-end measurements was still missing. The Linux MSR module, ...

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You’ll also get started with JPA Query Language (JPQL) and use it to execute a few simple database operations on the example application. The complete source code for the example application can be ...

This is a continuation of a series of articles in which I briefly cover the main points of a specific topic in system architecture design. The previous article can be read here and the full guide you ...

There is a longstanding tension in programming language design between two seemingly irreconcilable desiderata. Rust is the first industry-supported programming language to overcome the longstanding ...

Java Flight Recorder is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) profiler that gathers performance metrics without placing a significant load on resources. The profiler is intended to remain on continuously -- ...