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Bitcoin's Energy Usage Isn't a Problem. Here's Why.
Updated for 2023, this report is a deep dive on Bitcoin's energy usage and long-term scaling approach, with data tables and case studies.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family
TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that it is entering the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) market with a new line of very low-cost, very low-power devices. The ForgeFPGA™ Family will address the underserved market need…
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Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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10 years of whatever this has been
I guess I know something about train wrecks. One night when I was 10 years old, me and my mom were driving home. We came to a train crossin...
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Power Fx: open-source now available
The preview release of Microsoft Power Fx is now available as open source on GitHub You can now freely integrate this Excel-like, low code programming language in all of your own projects.
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Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
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Finding Your Swagger
This is a story about a time I lost my swagger.
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TPM Sniffing
TL;DR : we reproduced Denis Andzakovic’s proof-of-concept showing that it is possible to read and write data from a BitLocker-protected device (for instance, a stolen laptop) by sniffing the TPM key from the LCP bus.
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Three sins of authors in computer science and math (1997)
Most of us learn how to write technical articles by osmosis. After reading a hundred or so papers, we unconsciously pick up the common patterns of the field and begin to imitate them. This phenomenon is largely beneficial, but there are several truly odious habits that are almost universally and inadvertently adopted…
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XMPP, a comeback story
Everyone loves a comeback story. Can a 20 year old overlooked technology make a comeback as a completely decentralized, free, and scalable technology for the growing masses of people who value freedom and privacy?
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New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
After trying for 3 years, I found a way to grow transparent, high quality sodium chloride crystals at home. Here's my procedure.
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Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column
This is a little sed challenge that ocurred to me somewhat recently, when I wondered how many weeks were between 2 dates. Of course, I just looked at the calendar and counted, but then I wondered what kind of sed script I’d need in the middle of a cal -y | ... | wc -l pipeline to get the same answer.
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Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
This is a followup to my previous post, prefix sum on Vulkan. Last year, I got a fancy algorithm for this problem running well on one device. This time, I will dive into the question of how to make it work well across a wide range of devices. The short answer is, it can be made to work pretty portably on Vulkan and…
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Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners
A multi billion dollar processed foods company called "Impossible Foods" is suing IMPOSSIBLE ® and seeking to cancel our federally registered trademarks. Here's our response.
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Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework
The EU is considering a draft law that has serious ramifications for the website security ecosystem. We have recommendations for how to fix it.
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I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)
When I heard about Radxa's Taco—a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4-powered NAS/router-in-a-box—I knew what must be done. Load it up with as much SSD storage as I can afford, and see what it can do. And after installing five Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SSDs and one Sabrent Rocket Q NVMe SSD—loading up every drive slot on the Taco…
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Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph
Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
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Apple announces Self Service Repair
Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.
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Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
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The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
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