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UPDATE: Add the IRS to the list of federal agencies obtaining information from NSA surveillance. Reuters reports that the IRS got intelligence tips from DEA's secret unit (SOD) and were also told to cover up the source of that information by coming up with their own independent leads to recreate...
Kaikki nettikasinot and other similar projects can be exhausting, due to their demanding schedules. How do I organize myself? Learn now!
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
This blog seeks to expose some of the myths about our present criminal justice system, myths that have risen to prominence again following publication of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) consultation …
Today, pretty much everyone has a CPU, a DSP and a GPU, buried somewhere in their PC, phone, car, etc. Most don't know or care that they bought any of these, but they did.
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an “executive coup” against the…
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
After 7 years of operating AppGratis and more than 50 millions installs globally we’re shutting down the service today.
Today Shumway landed in the Firefox codebase. Shumway is a way to support playing Flash (SWF files) without the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash Player has been plagued with bugs so being to play Flash without the normal player is a big step forward for security. Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that…
A new design for Acko.net, fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML at sixty frames per second.
More accessible financial infrastructure has made it easier than ever to build an online business.
But the latest revelations scare me. It's one thing to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software; there's a lot of software out there which was written by developers with very little understanding of cryptography or software security, and it shows. If you care about security, we reasoned, stick to software written…
Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
A couple nights ago I was looking over the UEFI spec, and I realized it shouldn't be too hard to write UEFI applications in Rust. It turns out, you can, and her…
History, background, visiting, ordering, using, & analyzing the drug market Silk Road 1
Entrepreneur served on faculty for 45 years; championed long-term corporate research.
