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What's New in Ida 9.3

docs.hex-rays.com
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IDA 9.3: Expanded Architecture Support, Faster UI and More

hex-rays.com
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Idax – A beautiful, idiomatic and less frustrating IDA C++ SDK

github.com
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Apeiron – A GPU- and SIMD-accelerated binary entropy visualizer written in Rust

github.com
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Reversing IDA's Lumina Protocol

stack.int.mov
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A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain and Security Architecture

stack.int.mov
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·hace 3 meses·discuss
Mind sharing the use cases you're using IDA via MCP for?
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·hace 5 meses·discuss
Which exotic architectures is IDA missing from your perspective?
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·hace 5 meses·discuss
Well, Ghidra's strength is batch processing at scale (which is why P-Code is less accurate than IDA's but still good enough) while allowing a massive amount of modules to execute. That allows huge distributed fleets of Ghidra. IDA has idalib now, and hcli will soon allow batch fleets, but IDA's focus is very much highly accurate analysis (for now), which makes it a lot less scalable performance wise (for now).
19h
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Ghidra has a slightly different focus than IDA, so they're definitely not just using Ghidra :-)
19h
·el año pasado·discuss
> Warp, while excellent, requires individual approval for each command—there’s no equivalent to Claude’s “dangerous mode” where you can grant blanket execution trust.

That’s a lie. I simply added “.*” to the whitelist. It’s a regex.
19h
·el año pasado·discuss
The frustration seems justified.

Spending significant time adapting core kernel code or developing a safe Rust abstraction for DMA, only to be summarily shut down by a single gatekeeper who cites "not wanting multiple languages" is demotivating. It's especially incongruent given that others have championed Rust in the kernel, and Linux has begun hosting Rust modules.

If the project leadership — i.e. Linus — truly wants Rust integrated, that stance needs to be firmly established as policy rather than left up to maintainers who can veto work they personally dislike. Otherwise, contributors end up in a limbo where they invest weeks or months, navigate the intricacies of the kernel's development model, and then find out a single personality is enough to block them. Even if that personality has valid technical reasons, the lack of a centralized, consistent direction on Rust's role causes friction.

Hector's decision to leave is understandable: either you have an official green light to push Rust forward or you don't. Half measures invite exactly this kind of conflict. And expecting one massive rewrite or an all‐encompassing patch is unrealistic. Integration into something as large and historically C‐centric as Linux must be iterative and carefully built out. If one top‐level developer says "no Rust", while others push "Rust for safety", that is a sign that the project's governance lacks clarity on this point.

Hector's departure highlights how messy these half signals can get, and if I were him, I'd also want to see an unambiguous stance on Rust — otherwise, it's not worth investing the time just to beg that your code, no matter how well engineered, might be turned down by personal preference.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
You should explicitly mention that this is your blog post, and that this is a "members-only" post?
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
As someone working in comint I can assure you that there's nothing special about MEGA compared to others in terms of flagging.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
Selling a NYC skyscraper for 97.5% under market value? Yeah, that's tax evasion 101.

Reasons:

- Property taxes? Tanked.

- Capital gains? What capital gains?

- Money laundering? Check.

- Gift tax dodge? Probably.

- Transfer tax? Lol.

- Asset value shenanigans? You bet.

IRS gonna love this one. Good luck explaining that "market rate" to the auditors.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
Or maybe, just maybe, this is tax evasion?
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
Surely, the loss of some user metadata is a catastrophe on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Perhaps next time, the Internet Archive should consult their vast army of paid engineers and their bottomless coffers to ensure such a calamity never befalls humanity again. After all, what's the point of preserving vast swathes of human knowledge and culture if one can't access their personal bookmarks from 2007?
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
It's a lot more simple these days with modern iOS versions: https://schlaubischlump.github.io/LocationSimulator/
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·hace 2 años·discuss
Absolutely phenomenal quality. Subscribed to the pro plan! Please add an option to use Claude as I absolutely prefer it to GPT4 and it's probably cheaper too.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
That's about the Rewind Pendant which you're physically wearing, not Rewind the program.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
I love how Windows Recall is essentially just a clone of Rewind that I’ve been successfully using to fight ADHD for a looooong time on macOS. If it’s remotely as useful…
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
Abused how? If you need sigint on a possible bomb threat you learned about via humint in the field and you're waiting for bureaucracy to happen, people will die, and they have died already.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
As a German, and as a privacy conscious person, yes, I think it's worth it.

As a CTO of an AI company that does automated background checks for international compliance, .. jesus fucking christ, my job is 90% GDPR compliance at this point.

off-topic: did you know in Germany you need a court order to surveil Taliban terrorists ... in Afghanistan? Fun times.
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
Brothers in username.. :-)
19h
·hace 2 años·discuss
> Answer the following question using verbatim quotes from the text above: "What material absorbs infrared light efficiently?"

> "Graphene is a promising material that could change the world, with unlimited potential for wide industrial applications in various fields... It is the thinnest known material with zero bandgaps and is incredibly strong, almost 200 times stronger than steel. Moreover, graphene is a good conductor of heat and electricity with very interesting light absorption properties."

Interestingly, the first sentence of the response actually occures directly after the latter part of the response in the original text.

Screenshot from the document: https://i.imgur.com/5vsVm5g.png.

Edit: asking it "What absorbs infrared light and converts it into electrical signals?" yields "Graphene sheets are highly transparent presenting high optical transparency, which absorbs thermal radiations with high efficacy and converts it into electrical signals efficiently." verbatim.
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·hace 2 años·discuss
To test this hypothesis, I just took the complete book "Advances in Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials" [0] and pasted it into the prompt, asking Gemini: "What absorbs thermal radiations and converts it into electrical signals?".

It replied: "The text indicates that graphene sheets present high optical transparency and are able to absorb thermal radiations with high efficacy. They can then convert these radiations into electrical signals efficiently.".

Screenshot of the PDF with the relevant sentence highlighted: https://i.imgur.com/G3FnYEn.png

[0] https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Green-and-Sustainable-...