#webassembly
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Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Let Malicious WebAssembly Escape the Sandbox
Wasmtime's maintainers disclosed two critical bugs in the Cranelift compiler that let an attacker-controlled WebAssembly module break out of the isolating sandbox. Fixes landed on October 19 and 20.
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Wild 0.11 Linker: Linux Kernel Modules and WASM by Default
The fast Wild linker has a new release. Highlights include linking WebAssembly by default and enough support to build Linux kernel modules.
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Quake rewritten in safe Rust and running in the browser
id Software's 1996 Quake has been ported from its open GPL sources to Rust and now runs right in the browser — no GPU, no dependencies, software-rendered.
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Classic demoscene productions run in the browser — recompiled to WebAssembly
The demoscene-recomp project takes the original DOS code of legendary early-1990s demos and turns it into WebAssembly instruction by instruction, preserving exact cycle timing.
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FoxPro is back: FoxDev Studio runs your old apps on 64 bits
Nearly two decades after Microsoft killed Visual FoxPro, a new project called FoxDev Studio opens legacy projects untouched and lifts the ceilings of the 32-bit era.
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trynix.dev: any Nix package right in your browser
Farid Zakaria has launched a Linux virtual machine that runs entirely in the browser via WebAssembly — and it can load any Nix package from the past 13 years.
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trynix: Any Nix Package Running Right in Your Browser
Farid Zakaria has unveiled trynix — a service that boots a Linux machine in a browser tab and lets you run any of more than 310,000 versions of nixpkgs packages without a single install on the host.
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Simon Willison Unveils an Interactive SQLite Query Explainer
Developer Simon Willison has released a web tool that explains the output of SQLite's EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN commands. The idea was sparked by a note from Julia Evans on reading query plans.
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Firefox Compiled to WebAssembly and Run Inside Chrome
The Puter project has ported the Firefox browser to WebAssembly, letting it run entirely inside another browser. Development consumed roughly $25,000 in Claude Opus and Fable tokens.