Compiler backdoors!

If you remember the famous Ken Thompson Turing Award lecture where he demonstrated how easy it is to backdoor a C compiler, we have here the full code and an in depth look at how it works.

Volume 4, Fascicle 7

A new The Art of Computer Programming fascicle has just been released - let us begin to study it.

New features in Perl 5.40

Just in case you missed it, a list of new features in Perl 5.40. Nothing mind blowing but all appreciated.

Seeing Pi in a Pentium chip die

Amazingly, with the right microscope, you can see where Pi is encoded in a Pentium's internal ROM.