This month, “hello world” said “hello world!” The term was coined in a seminal programming book published in 1978: “C Programming Language,” written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie: https://
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Hello World: The Iconic First Program Turns 46
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MIT Professor Explores Collaborative Learning and AI Autonomy Research
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MIT assistant professor Andreea Bobu discusses what inspired her to become a scientist focused on collaborative learning & autonomy. Full video: https://
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CSAIL Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Midjourney AI Images
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Happy Valentine's Day from CSAIL, w/images from Midjourney.
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Oreo Security Upgrade Addresses Speculative Execution Attacks
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Oreo is a lightweight security upgrade, & next, the team will look to address speculative execution attacks. Read more: https://
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Oreo Prevents Microarchitectural Side Attacks on Linux
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The researchers found that Oreo could prevent microarchitectural side attacks on the Linux operating system w/o hampering the software it protects. Their experiment involved simulating hardware attacks in gem5, a platform commonly used to study computer architecture.
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Oreo Enhances ASLR Security Through Hardware-Software Co-Design
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ASLR was deployed in operating systems like Windows & Linux, but w/i the last decade, its security flaws rendered it ineffective. As a software-hardware co-design mechanism, Oreo’s masking abilities could make ASLR more secure & reliable.
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CSAIL’s Oreo Method Mitigates Address Space Attacks
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CSAIL’s "Oreo" method mitigates these attacks by removing randomized bits of addresses that lead to a program’s instructions. Its "masked address space" re-maps code from these virtual addresses to fixed locations before they’re executed w/i the hardware.
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ASLR Vulnerabilities: Microarchitectural Attacks Threaten System Security
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Address space layout randomization (ASLR) scatters program instructions in a computer’s memory to prevent leaking precious data. The problem: Hackers use microarchitectural side attacks to locate them. They can then use code-reuse attacks to steal passwords & alter systems — but
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Dennis Ritchie’s Lost PhD Thesis on C and Unix
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Read the lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language & co-creator of Unix: https://
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AI Breaks Down Barriers Between Scientific Disciplines
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New MIT faculty member & CSAIL principal investigator Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields & fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines. “There is no way I could ever understand high-energy physics, chemistry, or the frontier