[Link] Coder Spends 1,200 Hours Piecing Together Diablo's Source Code

Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com

If not for a few oversights on Blizzard’s part, the original Diablo’s source code would likely be lost to time. However, thanks to those oversights and some serious dedication from one coder, people can now see (and tinker around with) what makes Diablo tick.

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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.

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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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