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Digital signatures and how to avoid them
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a messag…
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Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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Is Tor still safe to use?
This blog post is a response to an investigative news report about a large-scale law-enforcement attack that managed to de-anonymize a user of an old version of the long-retired app Ricochet. This blog post aims to provide insight into what we know so far. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident…
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Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In the past three months since Qwen2’s release, numerous developers have built new models on the Qwen2 language models, providing us with valuable feedback. During this period, we have focused on creating smarter and more knowledgeable language models. Today, we…
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Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls
Update 11/19/24: The Senate Judiciary Committee is still scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please express your continued opposition through our action center, linked below. A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent...
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Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API
A lot of community applications died when API access to twitter, reddit & others was severely restricted, but they can't stop us from sharing our own data with each other!
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CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Guest Post Every once in a while I get a question, either privately or in a department meeting, regarding CUNYFirst. Here is what I ...
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Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in …
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0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
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Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, tex…
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PeerTube 6.3
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
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HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?
I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok. Copied to 📋⧉ {<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It…
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Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system ...
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Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
TL;DR; - they prevent companies from denying services to people that use technology to block tracking and ads. ...
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Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
[Exclusive] The iPhone maker is ready to be the first client of TSMC's new Arizona fab. Finally, the iPhone will boast a processor that's Made in America
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Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
If I asked you to name the most common chronic disease in children, what would you say? Asthma comes top of mind, but there is something five times more common in kids: cavities. We don’t typically think of dental cavities as a chronic disease—in part because of the separation between medicine and dentistry—but it is…
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Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board
Press releases from 23andMe Research Institute.
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A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello
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The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
I wrote a decade ago about the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, a strategy for corporations to evade taxes that was widespread and large-scale enough to come to the attention of the International Monetary Fund. But due to various changes in national and international tax agreements, the strategy seems to have faded…
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Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail
UPDATE: Spoke too soon… The problem discussed here turned out to be specific to Little Snitch 6.1 and not a general issue in macOS. It has already been fixed in Little Snitch 6.1.1. See the end of the article for details. DNS Encryption 101 When…
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Swift 6
We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains.
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OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
Distributed Tracing is scary and complicated... right?
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Pixtral 12B
Pixtral 12B is deprecated. Discover Mistral AI’s latest vision models and capabilities in our updated documentation.
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WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
Project website for WonderWorld
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Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough
Question for Quote Investigator: Apparently, sometime during the 1950s a popular writer of detective fiction crafted a short passage parodying science fiction. Within the passage the word “Google” appeared long before the company Google existed. The passage displayed remarkable prescience. The word “Google” referred…
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The centrality of stupidity in mathematics
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GPU Debug Scopes
Using RAII to attach diagnostic information to your command buffers
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Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra
This post has a little bit of everything. Hardware diagnostics, some suspiciously similar datasheets from two separate Taiwan chip manufacturers, and firmware reverse engineering. Read on if that sounds like fun!