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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
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The Coming Boeing Bailout?
(Big issue 7-3-2019)
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A better zip bomb
This article shows how to construct a non-recursive zip bomb that achieves a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container. "Non-recursive" means that it does not rely on a decompressor's recursively unpacking zip files nested within zip files: it expands fully after a single round of…
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Hacking Digital Calipers
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Superhuman: Read Statuses
I’m Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. I’d like to talk about what Superhuman does, why we do it, and what we are changing.
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Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
Backups ensure data continuity, but they're also a surface of risk. See how Fortune 100 vendor Attunity exposed nearly a terabyte of internal backups.
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Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet
Recently, I was performing a research on Same Origin Policy attacks, I managed to realize that the la version of Firefox (currently 67) is vulnerable to local files theft attack (on any supported OS), due to improper implementation of Same Origin Policy for file scheme URIs. Let’s go over the PoC details then I will…
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Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
dmitriid: My favorite theory (which is yet to be challenged) is that modern car interfaces are designed by people who have never even seen a car in their entire life.
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
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Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups
On a Sunday morning in 2006, Cecilia Wu was mugged after leaving church. The pain became unbearable. Discouraged with her treatment options, Wu opted to participate in a pilot study at an orthopedics lab for patients with a full-thickness rotator cuff tear. “It was better than surgery,” Wu said.
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The case against plant consciousness
Botanist Lincoln Taiz and colleagues argue against the suggestion that plants have neurobiology or consciousness.
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New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community
I don’t speak in hyperbole very often, and I want to make sure that you all ...
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Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs
Mailchimp was getting too expensive, so I moved this blog's newsletter to Sendy.
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It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life
Two Stanford historians discuss how the United States’ Declaration of Independence became one of the pillars of American civic life and other lesser-known historical facts about what happened on July 4, 1776.
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How Google Pagespeed works
How Google PageSpeed Insights works: where its field data comes from, how Lighthouse calculates the Performance score, and how to improve your page speed.
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Why we're ending support for MySQL
GitLab will be ending support for MySQL starting with our 12.1 release – here's why.
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An Open Letter to the Go Team About Try
An Open Letter To The Go Team About Try. “Once a language gets complex enough, programming in it is more like carving out a subset from an infinite sea of …
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Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
How we got here After Apple released its (soon-to-be) previous generation Mac Pro, it probably didn't take long for them to realize they had a trash can…
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Exploring alternative funding models for the web
The online advertising ecosystem is broken. The majority of digital advertising revenue is going to a small handful of companies, leaving other publishers with scraps. Meanwhile users are on the ...
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The Day “/Proc” Died
Solaris'd... This morning I got an email from our group manager asking about a UNIX server...
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It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel
I had a student (Fred Smith) who worked on extensions to Popcorn (the predecessor to Cyclone) that supported run-time code generation in a lightweight fashion. Here’s a paper describing part of the system: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/5812 . Fred’s thesis had a bunch more.
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Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails
Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work correspondence, to unsolicited inbound sales pitches. In many ways, they are an extension of our …