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As a file editor, Disk Probe lets you make changes to binary files in much the same way you use a text editor to make a change to a text file. By paging through a file, you can find readable text, ...

MATLAB Live Scripts adopted a new plain-text format to replace the old binary .mlx file, enhancing user collaboration, file ...

A new "security mitigation" tool from Microsoft can help take the guesswork out of opening Office 2003 files from people you don’'t know or aren't sure you should trust. The Microsoft Office Isolated ...

GLB is a binary file format, also known as JPEG for 3D, that describes 3D scenes for web formats. So, GLB eventually represents 3D models saved in the GL Transmission Format. The information includes ...

Being in the realm of semiconductor data with a wide range of customers, companies often throw interesting technical challenges at us. The most complex one so far this year is probably a request (OK, ...

Chris Wysopal, Lucas Nelson, Dino Dai Zovi and Elfriede Dustin explain which security methods should be used to investigate file formats. Applications such as Web browsers, image viewers, and media ...

If you can’t stand the thought of using an application in your browser, you might as well jump ahead to the comments and start flaming. Still with us? Imagine this scenario. You are at the office, at ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...