Memorial Day

Halide developers have written about building a memory-safe WebP image decoder, an alternative to the C-based libwebp that has been behind serious security vulnerabilities, including the 2023 'WebP' zero-day exploited in the wild. The piece explores how safe implementations of the format can reduce attack surface for apps and browsers. The topic resonates with ongoing debate about rewriting critical native image code in memory-safe languages like Rust or Swift.

Israel is holding a national memorial day to mark the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas-led attack of 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and some 250 taken hostage. Ceremonies and commemorations are taking place across the country as families of victims and hostages gather, with the country still divided over grief, security failures and the fate of those held in Gaza.

On this day in 1988, a Chilean opposition coalition defeated dictator Augusto Pinochet in a referendum on extending his rule, a pivotal moment that paved the way for the return of democracy in Chile. Social media users are marking the anniversary, recalling the vote alongside images of travel through Chilean cities such as Santiago, Rancagua and Talca.

US travelers are being advised on the busiest times to fly and drive over Memorial Day weekend, one of the country's heaviest travel periods. Local ABC stations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles are running guidance on when roads and airports will be most crowded, as millions prepare to travel for the unofficial start of summer.

Digital Foundry has published a technical feature explaining how Gears of War: E-Day addresses the Xbox Series S's memory constraints by streaming assets directly from the console's SSD. The piece details how the Coalition leans on fast storage to reduce RAM pressure, and gamers and developers are sharing the analysis as an example of clever engineering for the less powerful console.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog led commemorations for National Memorial Day honouring the victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. The observance honours those killed in the assault that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, with ceremonies held across Israel as the country continues to reckon with the aftermath and the fate of hostages still held.

A developer with long experience using Redis for caching, sessions and rate limiting has published a hands-on comparison of Redis against Dragonfly, a newer in-memory data store. The piece examines how the two stack up on architecture, performance and day-to-day backend use, and has drawn attention among programmers weighing whether Dragonfly is a credible alternative to Redis in production systems.

Ninety-eight American prisoners of war were executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island on this day in 1943. The atoll had been captured by Japan shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, and the killings were carried out by the Japanese garrison. The event is remembered as a war crime and is commemorated through memorials and historical accounts of the Pacific War.

A then-and-now comparison of a World War I cenotaph is drawing attention, showing how the memorial site has changed from its early 20th-century appearance to the present day. Such features typically pair archival photographs with current images of the same spot, prompting reflection on remembrance, preservation, and the passage of time since the First World War.

A Sankei article recounts a writer's memories of middle school, where they were seen as an insufferable goody-goody student. Delinquency at the school was so widespread that every metal handle in the toilets had been removed. The nostalgic, humorous recollection of school-day mischief and social awkwardness is drawing amused reactions online.

Israel is holding nationwide memorial ceremonies to honor those killed in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and the soldiers who died in the war that followed. The annual observance brings moments of remembrance across the country as families, officials and communities gather to mark the anniversary of the deadliest attack in Israel's history.

A high-severity memory corruption vulnerability, CVE-2026-88779 (CVSS 8.7), in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway can be exploited unauthenticated over the network to cause denial of service. The flaw was attacked as a zero-day and has been added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Citrix has issued emergency fixes, and security teams are urged to patch immediately.

The 12th annual Tucker Hipps memorial golf tournament has taken place, bringing together supporters for a day of golf in memory of the Clemson University student who died in 2014. The event helps keep his name alive and raises awareness surrounding the circumstances of his death, with coverage from local news in South Carolina.

The World Health Organization has addressed a suspected cluster of hantavirus cases, stating it is not the start of a new pandemic similar to COVID-19. The remarks were aimed at calming concern after reports of the cluster circulated, with the WHO seeking to distinguish hantavirus, a rodent-borne virus, from the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.

A Monroe County man has been convicted of murder for a fatal shooting at a bar on Memorial Day. The verdict closes the case on the holiday shooting, which drew attention in the Poconos and Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Further details on the sentencing, the victims, and the circumstances of the shooting have not been widely reported.

Ukraine's border guard service has opened a memorial called 'Heavenly Watch' on Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, in the Black Sea. The site honours border guards who died defending the island after Russian forces attacked it on the first day of the full-scale invasion, and has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

Writers are noting that the Modern Language Association has officially adopted the single-space convention after periods, ending the long-standing two-space habit many learned in typing class. One commenter admitted only just discovering the change, saying it had become nearly universal by 2019 and is now literally the rule of the day, prompting many to unlearn decades of muscle memory.

Researchers are exploring techniques that could one day weaken or erase painful memories from the brain. Building on work in memory reconsolidation and targeted interventions, scientists hope future treatments could help people suffering from trauma or PTSD. The idea of selectively removing bad memories is drawing wide attention, along with debate about the ethics and risks of editing what we remember.

Ukraine's border guards have opened a memorial called 'Heavenly Watch' on Zmiinyi Island, the Black Sea fortress known for its early resistance to Russia's 2022 invasion. The memorial was unveiled by special forces of the 10th Mobile Border Guard Detachment to mark Ukraine's Day of Defenders and Defendresses, honouring fallen defenders.