Security

A $4 ESP32 can now see you breathe through walls — and that's both a miracle and a problem

A $4 ESP32 can now see you breathe through walls — and that's both a miracle and a problem

The README line that made me put down my coffee

There’s a GitHub project that surfaced on r/github this week, and it opens with a sentence that reads like it was written by someone who has fully understood the implications of what they built and decided to lead with the facts:

“Turn any …

The Assembly Hall of Shame — or why making CPUs slow is an art form

The Assembly Hall of Shame — or why making CPUs slow is an art form

The project that asks: how slow can a single instruction be?

There’s a GitHub repo that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week: asm-hall-of-shame, by the legendary xoreaxeaxeax (the same person behind the Movfuscator — a compiler that produces binaries using only mov …