Finally wrote a shortish blog post introducing Bril, the IL I made a while back for teaching our PhD-level compilers class at Cornell. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html

In the last lecture of our introductory course on imperative and object-oriented programming, today, I reimplemented a tiny JVM.

If you are interested, it is available here:

https://github.com/se-tuebingen/mini-jvm

Facebook is a zombie platform

https://blog.chrispwinters.uk/facebook-is-a-zombie-platform/

Time to add a new definition to cybersecurity textbooks:

DoS attack: floods a server with traffic, making a website or resource unavailable.

DDoS attack: is a DoS attack that uses multiple computers or machines to flood a targeted resource.

Crowd Strike attack: is a DDoS attack that targets ALL resources.