From LaurieWired. Your RAM is an illusion. The moon needs a new timezone. Compilers might start vibe…compiling. Welcome to 2026. In this video, I break down my biggest Computer Science predictions for the year! What do you think, do you agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments! — Timestamps: 00:00 Treating RAM like a…Network?…

From LaurieWired. An undergrad accidentally beat a Turing Award winner. A dog outperformed IBM’s quantum computer. And Valve’s video game code is now running Meta’s datacenters. These are the wildest CS papers from 2025. In this video, we cover five of my favorite Computer Science papers that flew under the radar. Everything from theoretical mathmatical…

From LaurieWired. A single unhandled exception destroyed a $500 million rocket in seconds. The F-35 wasn’t going to make the same mistake. By carefully slicing C++, engineers created one of the strictest coding standards ever written. This…is Programming Like a Fighter Pilot. In this video, we dive into the history of software in aircraft, the…

From LaurieWired. Compilers and Humans have the same problem. We’re all terrible at understanding each other. Many programming bugs are fundamentally linguistic confusion. Syntactic irregularities affect human languages just like computer languages! Join me for some formal language theory, a lot of C++, and some "recreational" insults. — Timestamps: 00:00 Language Ambiguity 03:37 Compiler Theory…

From LaurieWired. What if we can’t trust *ANY* software…even if you have the source code? A perfect, self-replicating "sin" passed down for generations of compilers. Invisibly compromised in every program. It sounds like a spy novel; only it actually happened. Ken Thompson, creator of UNIX, theorized how Code Auditing won’t save you. This is how…

From LaurieWired. What happens if we can’t make another CPU…ever? What fails first? How long would datacenters last? Does the Internet start to fracture? Of course, it’s a hypothetical thought experiment. But it’s interesting to think what chips will stand the test of time, and which might fail sooner than you think! — Here are…

From LaurieWired. This C code is disgusting. But also really, really clever. The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has been consistently breaking human minds since 1984. This year’s winners are out of control. But hey, I’m a Professional Reverse Engineer. Time to find out: – Can government-grade tools defeat unreadable code? – Hiding Salmon…

From LaurieWired. Gen Z doesn’t Understand Filesystems. It’s not their fault. Apple’s early abstraction of mobile data storage has caused…confusion to say the least. But what does the *real* iOS filesystem look like? As a researcher myself; it’s kind of insanely complicated. Join me as I dive into the hidden structures, sandbox illusions, and…the numerous…

From LaurieWired. Fading out audio is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do! When numbers get *really* small, the number of CPU operations can explode 100-fold. Both x86 and ARM have special CPU instructions just to handle it. But why? In this video, we’ll explore the IEEE 754 (floating point) standard, the…

From LaurieWired. Lo-fi girl’s got nothing on this. I built a tool that dynamically creates Infinite focus music that adapts to what’s on your screen. By combining a few locally-run Open-Source AI models (MagentaRT + InternVL3), it’s trivial to have your own contextual, endless radio station. Plus, I also go over some music model glitch…

From LaurieWired. Ever wonder why your favorite UNIX command is called "grep"? And what the heck does it have to do with the Founding Fathers? Join me as we discuss linguistics research, Bell Labs, the American Revolution, and how it all resulted in the linux tool we all depend upon! — Timestamps 00:00 The Phone…

From LaurieWired. Matrix Multiplication is critical to everything from AI training to computer graphics. With clever mathematical hacks, it’s possible to outperform traditional methods by a significant margin! In this video we go over some of the latest research in matrix algorithm development, specifically the improvements to Strassen found by Johannes Kepler University in May…