Intezer agents rebuild Slack, Finder and TinyTurla-NG from binaries
The TinyTurla-NG rebuild scored 92.8% BinDiff similarity, and the Slack copy gained local AI autocomplete.
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Stories tagged #decompilation
Neural decompilation candidate selection closes gap on obfuscated binaries
Generate-then-select pipeline with execution-guided selection reaches 88.8% pass@1 on obfuscated inputs.
AI coding tools speed retro-game ports and split decomp communities
A decomp-tracking site shut down after AI users finished or forked others' open projects without contributing.
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VMSpec recovers program semantics from virtual-machine-obfuscated code
A prototype stripped VM obfuscation from nearly all of 147 benchmark programs and six malware domain-generation algorithms.
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
decomp.dev is shutting down after AI made game decompilation and cloning trivial, overwhelming human-led projects.
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI decompilation is reconstructing commercial games, aiding preservation while raising fears of software reuse.
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
A team spent about 500 billion tokens orchestrating AI agents to decompile an unnamed shooter.
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Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
Claude Opus 5.5 is decompiling classic games into working browser ports, complicating IP enforcement.
SoK: Are LLMs Reliable at Source Code Recovery? A Taxonomy and Empirical Evaluation
An SoK evaluates LLM binary-to-source recovery on 45,000 samples across architectures and languages.
Echo: Learning-based Matching Decompilation using Trusted Back Translation
Researchers introduce Echo, a matching decompiler using trusted back-translation that roughly doubles exact-match rates and outperforms GPT-5.6 and Codex on Mirai.
When LLM Decompilers Recompile More and Preserve Less
Researchers show LLM decompiler outputs can recompile yet diverge behaviorally, proposing the Decompile-Diverge fuzzing oracle to catch hidden changes.