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The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it (2020)
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,332 posts.
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A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8
We discovered that, until recently, Google Public DNS was theoretically vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning attack on DNSSEC-signed domain names. Google fixed the vulnerability as a result of our report
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Best practices for optimizing Lambda functions
Learn how to get the most out of your serverless functions
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Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.
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State of the SqueakPhone
One of my projects over the past couple of years has been Synit , a Syn dicate init (really, systemd and D-Bus ) replacement. Synit underpins another project, #squeak-phone , a sketch of an alternative to Android for personal computing on a mobile device.
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Git’s database internals II: commit history queries
This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it's enabled in your repositories.
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Android 13
Android 13 is here with new customization features, privacy features and multi-device features for phones, laptops and tablets.
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Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit
The social networking platform Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to prevent the site from being overrun by problematic content—including hate speech—and ensure that it remains appealing for users. Though uncompensated, this labor is highly valuable to the company: According to a pair of new studies led by…
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Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
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9front “The Golden Age of Ballooning” Released
Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, and MNT Reform. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.
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Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End
Haleakalā and Maunakea, Hawai ʻ i – For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before it collapsed into a Type II supernova.
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Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
Does it stop third-party tracking? Or is it just an illusion of privacy?
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Vite 4.0
Vite 4 Release Announcement
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WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (1990)
HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already…
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A practical guide to incident management
This guide respresents our years of collective knowledge and experience, distilled into practical advice that can be adopted across your whole organization.
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You and Your Research (1986)
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
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Keep ’em coming: Why your first ideas aren’t always the best
In this episode, Jeremy Utley explains why good ideas are often preceded by not-so-good ideas.
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Supabase Vault is now in Beta
A Postgres extension to store encrypted secrets and encrypt data.
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Lost “canceled” Squaresoft game 3156 Coro Coro located and preserved
Hello, Gaming Alexandria readers! It is me, Chris Kohler, former journalist, current game developer and forever fan of obscure old games. The good people at Gaming Alexandria have given me this space to make a fortuitous announcement: A long-lost Square game, previously thought to have been canceled, has now been…
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Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
Boost literacy skills with Achieve3000 Literacy, a comprehensive, personalized learning solution from McGraw Hill. Explore our platform for improved student outcomes.
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Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
Integrating with other languages and distributing binaries has always raised the WebAssembly's barrier to entry for the average developer, and at Wasmer...
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The YC Winter 2022 Batch
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day.
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How to Paint a Crosswalk
A step-by-step guide to paint a crosswalk and keep your community safe.
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JWT vs. Opaque Tokens
In this article, you'll learn why you need JWT and opaque tokens, what the differences are between the two, and in which case you should select one or the other.
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The State of AWS Security
We analyzed trends in the implementation of security best practices and took a closer look at various types of misconfigurations that contribute to the most common causes of security breaches.
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Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
Sending an MP3 typically requires 128 kb/s of bandwidth. We can compress HiFi audio down to 12 kb/s, without sacrificing the quality.
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Improving Postgres text search speed
CharityAPI.org improved our Postgres response time so that searches initiated via our API were 760% faster without adding an additional tool like Elastic Search. This is how we did it.