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We're happy to announce a major new version of OpenPGPjs, the world's most widely used JavaScript PGP encryption library. Version 3.0 brings many enhancements to the hundreds of applications and millions of users who rely on OpenPGPjs.
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This report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
TunnelBear joins McAfee but will continue to develop the bear-filled products you've come to know and love.
There’s fast and there’s fast. This post is about Anna*, a key/value database design from our team at Berkeley that’s got phenomenal speed and buttery smooth scaling, with an unpr…
Sebastian Tomczak blogs about technology and sound, and has a YouTube channel. In 2015, Tomczak uploaded a ten-hour video of white noise. Colloquially, white noise is persistent background noise that can be soothing or that you don’t even notice after a while. More technically, white noise is many...
Starting a new job can be stressful so I've developed an algorithm that has helped me get up to speed quickly.
Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter which makes the life of developers easier by automatically formatting your javascript files for you. This post should help you understand everything you need to know about using prettier in a project.
The above shows my home-built digital clock. It uses Nixie-tubes for readout. In contrast to most other nixie-clocks being built these days, my clock does not use any transistor or IC for driving the tubes. Instead, the driving logic is built from neon lamps , together with resistors, capacitors and silicon diodes.
A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack. OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the peak reported at 1.7Tbps.
In this article I give a brief tour of a program analysis technique called symbolic execution. As the title indicates, I aim to explain both the intuition behind the technique, and also the details of a simple implementation. My intended audience is professional programmers who have no background in program analysis.
Jen Simmons' seven-part mini-series on resilient CSS and how you can create great graphic design on the web, now, and not have to worry about all the old browsers.
Reddit is a great website, where the ability to share and discuss things on the web gives some great little discoveries. Things that would ...
I developed an application to display and control Android devices connected on USB. It does not require any root access. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
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TL;DR: Many badges were broken since they were using the shuttered pypip.in site. I wrote a bot that could fix these and automatically submit pull requests with the changes. And then I had my GitHub account suspended. Do not make automatic unsolicited pull requests. Disclaimer This post discusses the design...
The cheapest way to save lives may be tackling a means of suicide you've never even heard of.
Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with
Musings on navigating the tech bubble with philosophy and self-improvement.
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V…
Cindy Cutts, my wife and best friend, passed away earlier this week. While I was traveling for work recently, Cindy went to visit her family in Omaha, Nebraska. On Sunday, while enjoying time with …
Created this by pasting together a few screenshots from a NetBeans profiler session – of a Spring + Hibernate web-app running within JBoss. Quite interesting to see how the business logic is …
One of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:
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I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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