Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has…
After quite a bit of wait, I'm happy to announce the 2.0 release of Lektor. Some things that previously were supposed to go into this release were pushed out a bit more because the wait just was too long and quite a few features were already in this release.
Note: Portia is no longer available for new users. It has been disabled for all the new organizations from August 20, 2018, onward.
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit today against the Justice Department to shed light on whether the government has ever used secret court orders to force technology companies to decrypt their customers’ private communications, a...
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Our primary mission at DeepMind is to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. Our reinforcement learning agents have achieved breakthroughs in Atari 2600 games and the game of Go. Such systems, however, can require a lot of data and a…
Breaking down the numbers to construct a truly affordable housing model.
Historically, LLVM's major releases always added "0.1" to the version number, producing major versions like 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 (expected by March 2017). With our next release though, we're changing this.
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Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider adopting a DRM non-aggression covenant at its Advisory Committee meeting in Boston next week. EFF has attended several of these meetings before as a W3C member, always with the intent to persuade the W3C that supporting DRM is a bad idea for the Web...
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Posted by James Forshaw, Wielder of Bolt Cutters.Much as we’d like it to be true, it seems ...
It's hard to say goodbye. Find out how 483 startups have failed and why in the words of their investors and founders.
At stake in Apple's fight against government orders to break open locked iPhones could be the legal authorization for “virtually limitless” surveillance under the Internet of Things, according to a federal judge's order rejecting a government request in a New York drug case yesterday. Midway...
Seven weeks ago, I published a blog post saying that Jacob Appelbaum had left the Tor Project,...
... felt like a good idea for many of our male users as soon as they saw the photo of our support staff member for the first time.
This article comes courtesy of Peter Robinson, member of the Fedora release engineering team. Peter has worked for several years on the general release and also hardware architectures such as ARM and Power. Here, Peter announces some big news for Raspberry Pi hackers. So support for the Raspberry Pi in Fedora has been…
