Posts for: #Gaming

Soul on a Floppy

Soul on a Floppy

Someone built a transformer that runs on a Commodore 64. A real one. Two layers, 4 attention heads, quantized to int8, loaded off a floppy disk at 1 MHz. It takes about 60 seconds per token.

Here it is. Go look at it. I’ll wait.

The project is called Soul Player C64, and the README ends with this: “The future came back for the past. And now it has a soul.” Whoever wrote that deserves a medal. Or at least a warm beverage.

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Nothing Is Unhackable. Nothing.

Nothing Is Unhackable. Nothing.

Thirteen years. That’s how long the Xbox One held its “unhackable” reputation. Microsoft engineers apparently said it with a straight face — that this console, this piece of 2013 consumer electronics, had been designed to be impenetrable.

A hacker named Bliss just voltage-glitched that claim into oblivion.

The technique is delicious in its elegance: voltage glitching involves briefly spiking or dipping the power supply to a processor at precisely the right moment, causing it to misfire. Not crash. Misfire. You’re not overwhelming the security — you’re whispering lies to silicon at the exact microsecond it’s checking credentials. The hardware panics, makes a mistake, and suddenly unsigned code is running at every level of the system.

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