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Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Google is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser. TL;DR: FLoC places people in groups based on their browsing habits to target advertising. Why is this bad? As the …
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 406 posts.
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DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
Google has created a new tracking mechanism called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. It's bad for privacy, which is why we're now blocking it in the DuckDuckGo extension.
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The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
This article is by our founders and sole shareholders, Daniel Berntsson and Fredrik Strömberg. Mullvad VPN is here to stay, and we are not interested in ever selling it.
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Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally…
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U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
Across the U.S., home prices have outpaced income. Our data reveals how the American dream of homeownership is becoming a nightmare.
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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
Apple AirTags: Arbitrary data can be uploaded from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. We're releasing an ESP32 firmware that turns the microcontroller into an (upload only) modem, and a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data.
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Site Isolation in Firefox
With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.
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Next.js 12
Next.js 12 introduces a brand-new Rust compiler, Middleware (beta), React 18 Support, Native ESM Support, URL Imports, React Server Components (alpha), and more!
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Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
Apple has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening experience.
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Cycles X
Celebrating 10 years of the Cycles render engine, and sharing what is next.
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GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
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Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.
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Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp.
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The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
The AFR for 2020 dropped below 1% down to 0.93%. In 2019, it stood at 1.89%. That’s over a 50% drop year over year.
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Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has recreated a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient to the impacts of drought, wildfire and climate change
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Docker Security Cheat Sheet
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
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V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
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Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware
COSIC - Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal firmware ( )
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS
Ad blockers like uBlock Origin are extremely popular, and typically have access to every page a user visits. Behind the scenes, they're powered by community-provided filter lists - CSS selectors that
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MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
Our latest AI milestone, Multitask Unified Model, has the potential to take Google’s information understanding to a new level.
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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout
Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project ZeroIntroduction KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the ...