calculito·23h agoThe Free Sample — How 240,000 Smuggled Nvidia Chips Became China’s Hardware Research FleetThe story arrives fully formed: the world’s most valuable chipmaker, its famous founder, and a businesswoman whom American intelligence…
Richu·1d ago# Thermal printer Firmware extraction Via BLE and an important lesson learned### A self-taught security researcher, a receipt printer, and the very expensive lesson
Sanjana·Nov 2Stop Writing Testbenches, Start Writing Properties: An SVA TutorialIn digital design, we often treat verification like a game of whack-a-mole. We write a testbench, drive some inputs, look at the waveform…
Sri Sowmya Nemani·Oct 25What Open-Source Board Designs Taught Me About Hardware SecurityA USB-C port with debugging capabilities, a washing machine with hardware interlocks, a desktop satellite tracker, and a small Python tool…
Dokka Saketh·Oct 24How OTT Platforms detect devices and enforce DRM?From HTTP headers to hardware-backed security vaults, here is how streaming giants lock down your content and enforce subscription tiers.
InTowards AIbyManan Kumar Garg·Oct 21Enforcing AI Compute Controls on a Global LevelA breakdown of hardware related compute governance mechanisms for advanced artificial intelligence
Amadeus Pondera·Oct 10Replicating a Voltage Fault Injection Attack on a Bitcoin Cold WalletHave you ever wondered about what acually Chip Does, or how it actually process something, or even how to interrupt it in a way that makes…
Lev Goukassian·Oct 5The Silicon Floor: Why AI Safety Needs a Boundary That Cannot Be Reasoned WithWhen the intelligence you are trying to contain is the same intelligence running the fence, the only answer is a boundary made of physics…