1981
Exploring EXIF
Exploratory interfaces for navigating photos
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1982
1983
Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
1984
Playing with genetic algorithms in Python
Edit: This post made it to the front page of Hacker News! You can find the discussion here.
1985
Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication
A new underwater communication and networking technique can achieve kilometer-scale ranges while consuming about one-millionth the power required by current communication methods.
1986
Making sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an…
1987
All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
1988
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to…
1989
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it's with great pleasure that I can…
1990
AOL pretends to be the internet
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]
1991
Chemists develop new way to split water
The news portal offers current information about studies, research and life at Münster University.
1992
Remembering Doug Lenat and his quest to capture the world with logic
Stephen Wolfram shares memories of Doug Lenat, early AI pioneer and developer of the CYC system. Their discussions around AI & logic and the potential combined uses of their respective discoveries.
1993
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
1994
On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
1995
Fighting API bots with Cloudflare's invisible turnstile
There's a "hidden" API on HIBP. Well, it's not "hidden" insofar as it's easily discoverable if you watch the network traffic from the client, but it's not meant to be called directly, rather only via the web app. It's called "unified search" and it looks
1996
Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
1997
Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech…
1998
Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here's her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader.
1999
HashiCorp did it backwards
Hashicorp recently announced they’re changing the license of Terraform to a source-available license, BSL1.1.
2000
Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998
Find out where it all began. Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
2001
How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second
Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.
2002
When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler
You bump into DORA in the wild a lot.
2003
Postmarks – A single-user, fediverse-enabled bookmarking website
The personal blog of Casey Kolderup
2004
If you can use open source, you can build hardware
I'm telling you: we're at a special moment here. The labor savings of open source, the composability, the fun: all of it has come to hardware. You can build things that solve real problems for yourself.
2005
Deno KV Is in Open Beta
Deno KV, the easiest way to add a strongly consistent database to your app, is now in open beta.
2006
2007
Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?
Update: This post sparked a lot of excellent discussion and debate on workarounds, and there are now multiple working solutions to allow certificate injection...
2008
2009
Ford 021C Concept Car (1999)
Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known and most prestigious brands in the world spanning diverse sectors from manufacturing and technology to transportation…
2010
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing history with unmatched capabilities for the time. Remember, this was all on a computer…