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Could this 'Unhackable' Chip Be a Security Moonshot?

SecureWorld News

A recent University of Michigan update on the chip explains how this operates: "It focuses on randomizing bits of data known as 'undefined semantics.' Undefined semantics are nooks and crannies of the computing architecture—for example the location, format, and content of program code. The unhackable chip bug bounty competition.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO Business Intelligence

Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3.

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How Mayhem Helped Uncover a Security Vulnerability in RustOS (CVE-2022-36086)

ForAllSecure

The main idea with this harness is to initialize the heap object with a random size, then exercise the other functions at random. I also ran each file in the corpus through MIRI to detect undefined behavior. Request an allocation: allocate_first_fit. Deallocation: deallocate. Extending the backing memory: extend. The Harness.