Articles by pieterr
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Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (help.apple.com)

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US sanctions former EU commissioner over efforts to curb online hate speech (politico.eu)

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Researcher scores $250k for Chrome bug (risky.biz)

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When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (brendangregg.com)

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Does this look like a real woman? AI model in Vogue (bbc.com)

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‘We will block the canals’: Young protesters target Bezos Venice wedding (cnn.com)

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GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands Asus Routers (greynoise.io)

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25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? [pdf] (v-dem.net)

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Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions (appleinsider.com)

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Moosehead – The Presidential Pack (mooseheadbeershop.ca)

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Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning (imec-int.com)

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The Chip Titan Whose Life's Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War (2023) (nytimes.com)

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SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010) (simondobson.org)

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Latencies, schedulers, interrupts. The epic story of a Linux Kernel upgrade (nutanix.dev)

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The iPhone's volume buttons will no longer work with Spotify Connect (theverge.com)

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Why not DANE in browsers (2015) (imperialviolet.org)

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Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress (lesswrong.com)

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Semiconductor Giant ASML Has a New Boss, and a Big Problem (wired.com)

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Intel receives ASML's first High NA EUV system (youtube.com)

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Ministery of Defense uncovers COATHANGER, a stealthy FortiGate RAT [pdf] (ncsc.nl)

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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time (newyorker.com)

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Source of the famous "Now you have two problems" quote (2006) (regex.info)

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Jamf Threat Labs discovers new malware embedded in pirated macOS applications (jamf.com)

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DEC MICA: inspiring the design of Windows NT (wikipedia.org)

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Chip Manufacturing and the Most Complex Machine (reby.media)

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Whitelisting LD_PRELOAD for Fun and No Profit (forensicitguy.github.io)

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Engineering Windows 7: A view from the bottom (2008) (microsoft.com)

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Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos (simonwillison.net)

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Chinese tech expats in Europe are on a mission (bits-chips.nl)

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macOS: Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation (morrick.me)

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Bullshit and Its Asymmetry: Unpacking Brandolini’s Law in Our Digital World (liatbenzur.com)

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How SQLite Is Tested (sqlite.org)

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ASML Statement on Dutch government's export control regulations announcement (asml.com)

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Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration (scientificcoder.com)

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Dutch National Flag Problem (wikipedia.org)

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Music’s Fentanyl Crisis: Inside the Drug That Killed Prince and Tom Petty (2018) (rollingstone.com)

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Bad Tests Are Worse Than Product Issues (software-engineering-unlocked.com)

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Lighting the way: How ASML revived Moore's Law and remade chipmaking (cloud.google.com)

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How ASML became Europe’s most valuable tech firm (bbc.com)

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Evasive cryptojacking malware targeting macOS found (jamf.com)

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Philips Research Natlab – a lost love (bits-chips.nl)

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Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022) (research.mozilla.org)

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Biden Wins Deal with Netherlands, Japan on China Chip Export Limit (bloomberg.com)

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Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015) (wired.com)

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C++ Is Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year 2022 (tiobe.com)

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Mac Logging and the Log Command (kandji.io)

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EUV Lithography to keep Moore’s Alive – managing technology risks (the-waves.org)

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Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz dies aged 65 (bbc.com)

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John Carmack on Static code analysis (2018) (sevangelatos.com)

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Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 (gregoryszorc.com)

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Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem (nytimes.com)

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Guido van Rossum. Reflections on the asyncio.Semaphore class (prog.world)

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A Team at Microsoft Is Helping Make Python Faster (microsoft.com)

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In-Depth: Is Safe That Bad? (medium.com/the-liberators)

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Hacking SSD’s: how a hobby project went out of control (ru.nl)

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Less is exponentially more (2012) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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A Q&A with Tony Yen, VP of Tech Development at ASML (emergingtechbrew.com)

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Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary (kmdouglass.github.io)