6. I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol (www.buchodi.com)

I broke the cipher AppLovin wraps around its ad-mediation traffic and decrypted several thousand real requests captured on my consented mobile-traffic research panel. The conclusion is straightforward: The encrypted bid request carries enough device data to deterministically re-identify the same iPhone across apps from different publishers, even when user denies

7. EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits (arxiv.org)

FPGA-level emulation is a key step in pre-silicon chip design validation. However, emulating large-scale multi-core systems increasingly exceed the hardware resource capacity of a single FPGA, limiting the feasibility of full-system emulation. To address this challenge, we introduce EMiX, a scalable multi-FPGA framework that enables distributed emulation of multi-core RISC-V architectures beyond single-FPGA resource limits. EMiX systematically partitions a monolithic multi-core design into multiple components and deploys them across multiple interconnected FPGAs, effectively exploiting inter-FPGA interconnects to balance scalability and performance without requiring fundamental RTL redesign. We prototype EMiX with a 64-core architecture across eight interconnected Alveo U55c FPGAs (scalable on core and FPGA counts), successfully demonstrating full-system execution including Linux boot. EMiX will be released as an open-source platform.

23. Matlab: Communications Toolbox (www.mathworks.com)

Communications Toolbox provides engineers with algorithms and apps for the analysis, design, end-to-end simulation, and verification of communications systems.

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