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iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
UPDATE June 2, 2018: USB Restricted Mode did not make it into iOS 11.4. However, in iOS 11.4.1 Beta USB Restricted Mode Has Arrived A new iOS update is about
Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
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A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been good advice for me. If you (or your team) are shooting…
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Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction At the end of January this year, we launched the Qwen2.5-VL series of models, which received widespread attention and positive feedback from the community. Building on the Qwen2.5-VL series, we continued to optimize the model using reinforcement learning…
Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
How to teach Git
An alternative way to teach Git
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Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a subject I’m developing for a potential future challenge.
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring…
Google vs. the Open Web
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
The ZSF has posted their own announcement which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF.
Light Table 0.4 released
With this release our goal was to bring more people into the fold, to increase the number of languages we can eval, and to smooth out some of the core experience. After 0.3, we finally had a chance to move the ball forward some - from live modifying websites directly inside of LT to injecting code into NodeJS and…
Understanding Python through its builtins
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Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include…
Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
Does current AI represent a dead end?
Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester, explains his belief that current AI should not be used for serious applications.
AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and…
US Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.
The cost of parsing JSON
The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.
The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
The last few weeks I’ve been looking into the open calendar, tasks and notes space with the goal of finding or building a privacy-conscious and still practical system. This post is an exploration of the available technology in that space, its problems and how to solve them.
Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11