Ken Shirriff, a reverse engineer and vintage electronics enthusiast, discovered the root cause of Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bug in the silicon itself, identifying the PLA block responsible for a half-billion-dollar recall due to a mathematical error in constructing the table for division algorithm.
The article discusses the upcoming end of support for Spotify's Car Thing, a device that has been the subject of various hacks and research. The article highlights some of these hacks, such as gaining U-Boot and UART access to the device's Linux system. It also mentions YouTube videos that provide step-by-step guides for accessing the hardware.
This article explains why Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are useful for function identification in reverse engineering, and provides a Python implementation using PyTorch to identify the start of functions in binaries.
