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Paged Out! is a free magazine about programming, hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. Always accepting submissions of one-page articles.

CPU vulnerabilities are fun! Here's yet another article by Reno Robert to explain a different CPU timing issue – this time it's the TagBleed attack applied both to inner-VM and hypervisor ASLR leaks!
The article by Gynvael is about curious Python VM implementation quirks. It is also an epic drama about broken expectations and wisdom learned the hard way. Worth the read for all low-level and Python enthusiasts – test how deep your Python knowledge is!
A great primer to the jungle of details that the backdoor resulting from the XZ supply chain compromise left behind.
Yes yes, a GPU has so many compute units that do all these shader calculations. But what if we replaced a GPU with a lot of humans? Inigo Quilez did just that!
Sometimes you just want to run x86-64 shellcode in Python. What is that? You never do? That's weird. Anyway, in this article, Gynvael & Łukasz present two(ish) ways to do it!
You should buy an Atari ST. Why you ask? We'll let Sébastien LARNAC / STS explain!
Binary polyglots are amazing, aren't they? Here's a bplist-protobuf polyglot recipe by Shai Shapira, so that you can serialize your data in two different ways at the same time!
If you're just getting into the hardware side of computers and you're trying to wrap your head around the low-level concept of how a "bus" works, check out this article by Wojciech Kochański on the cool design of a CAN bus and its anti-collision trick!
To solve a CTF challenge, sometimes you need surgical precision. And sometimes you just need brute force! Check out the way ckrielle solved a rev-eng challenge by a character-pair brute force and automated GDB state inspection!
New to Kubernetes? Katarzyna’s article explains its very basic concepts in an easy-to-comprehend way!
Ever wanted to make your own keyboard but did not know where to start? The process seemed to complicated or stressful? You’re in luck, cause this article by 0x17 makes it seem easy! Give it a try!
Blue Screen of Death is blue. But it doesn't have to be! It doesn't have to have a sad emoticon either. Join David Kaplan on an adventure to make the BSOD a bit more happy! Your system may still crash, but at least it will do so in a cheerful way.
For Python obfuscation connoisseurs, we present @ZetaTwo's article on a simple yet powerful anti-decompilation technique:
Check out this free of charge recipe of how to loot bugs in Windows CHM parser. Not for the buck, but for the fun. Because fuzzing is fun. Never did fuzzing before? Just follow the article.