It's rare to see near-universal condemnation from the infosec community, but Microsoft threatening a security researcher has done it. Notable exceptions: When Keeper Security sued Ars Technica over a story (2017); NSA's mass surveillance uncovered (2013); and FBI demanding an Apple backdoor (2016).

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In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

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(or rather the opposite, so you could make older games run at a sensible speed on a newer computer...) 😁

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I did this work with the Opcode Collective, especially Smartest Blob and Gloriouscow. The full ROM image: 8087.martypc.net#dzi=tiles%2F... A description of the 8087 microcode: github.com/a-mcego/gran...

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