Bitcoin_McPonzi

But this isn't really another browser engine. They do server side rendering. They're just displaying images on your phone.

If you read the article, you'd know they do server side rendering. They're basically displaying images on your phone.

Why not both? There was at least one chip that let you select your endian-ness. (The MIPS R4000).

See Wikipedia on Bi-endian machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Bi-endian_hardware

Because this is completely passive -- you don't have to click on anything or do anything -- this is news. Stop being an apologist for your favorite company.

I'm not sure either Y Combinator News nor the linked site are "major publications".

It is news, because there's a _completely passive_ way to crash a device, and crashes nearly always will allow for unauthorized code execution, given enough resources to work on the problem. You could launch a DOS attack on phones this way, and we all know that Cell Phones are how we're warned about emergencies, etc.

For what it's worth, Microsoft Edge, my default browser, had no problems with this page.

I've been to gold conferences in Australia and I paid my admission with a gold coin.

Just as a reference point, I didn't see any measurable slowdown on mkfile (New-Item) throughput on Windows 10 after applying the patch. I suspect this may be more of a filesystem issue.

I also tried this:

    $f = new-object System.IO.FileStream c:\temp\test.dat Create, ReadWrite
    $f.SetLength(8GB)
    $f.Close()

with no speed difference on a patched and unpached system