Software Engineering Institute

Temporal Memory Safety in C and C++: An AI-Enhanced Pointer Ownership Model

This podcast explores updates to the Pointer Ownership Model for C, a modeling framework designed to improve the ability of developers to statically analyze C programs for errors involving temporal ...

LummaStealer infections surge after CastleLoader malware campaigns

A surge in LummaStealer infections has been observed, driven by social engineering campaigns leveraging the ClickFix technique to deliver the CastleLoader malware.
Smithsonian Magazine

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Pays Tribute to Bob Weir: ‘Heaven’s Choir Just Gained a Beautiful New Voice’

Billy Strings paid tribute to Bob Weir following news of the Grateful Dead guitarist’s death Saturday at the age of 78. “We are all completely devastated but I also can’t help but feel like he is at ...
Phys.org

Scientists use string theory to crack the code of natural networks

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...
Hackaday

Reverse-Engineering The Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...
WRAL

Judge orders FEMA to reverse cancelation of infrastructure resilience program

A United States District Court judge on Thursday ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was wrong to cancel a program that has funded infrastructure resiliency efforts in ...
HousingWire

Liquidity, insurance premiums top demands in review of HUD’s reverse mortgage programs

A request for information from HUD, FHA and Ginnie Mae invites industry input on reverse mortgage program changes, focusing on mortgage insurance premiums and liquidity challenges tied to HECM and ...
Jambands

Puff of Smoke: Billy Strings Covers “Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette” for First Time with a Full Band in Pittsburgh

Billy Strings turned in two performances over the weekend. The concerts arrived after the Michigan-bred guitarist ignited the Universal Monsters theme during his Halloween show at the CFG Bank Arena ...
IEEE

Integration of Self-Learning and Assessment Activities Using STACK in a Course of Mathematics in Engineering

Abstract: This work presents an educational experience developed during the 2022-2023 academic year as part of a project of the “Programa de Redes de investigación en docencia universitaria” (Research ...
Newsweek

Democrats Move to Reverse $1 Trillion Medicaid Cuts

Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal on Wednesday evening that would reverse the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid implemented under President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, among other ...
The Hechinger Report

A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Of course, no one ...