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Biometric YubiKey
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays
While talking to a pediatrician and fellow early-childhood researcher, Dr. Melissa Bright heard something that stopped her in her tracks: Child abuse spikes after report cards come out.
The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend
Sandboxx News makes the complex approachable. Bridging the gap between academic expertise and practical boots-on-the-ground experience, we remove the mystery from conflict and highlight the importance of military service and deterrence-reinforcing technology.
How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?
Please refer to How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? - Take 2 to check the latest result.
Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
MRI brain images become 64M times sharper
MRI technology from Duke-led effort reveals the entire mouse brain in the highest resolution
Things I've learned at Google so far
Well I've been an employee at Google for about a month. So this seems like as good a place to reflect for a moment. The first thing that I'...
Spectre and the end of langsec
wingolog: article: spectre and the end of langsec
Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
Some may find it weird, but I actually greatly enjoy using Enlightenment E16 as my window manager. It's themable, hackable, lightweight (24MB peak RSS!),...
Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
My quest is to build beautiful things that help change the world, and I’ve been fortunate to spend the last 15 years in Silicon Valley, working with some of the major players shaping all sorts of technology. Today, I’m super excited to join SiFive - the company I believe is best positioned to transform the silicon…
Monocle
I've been working on a project called Monocle [http://monocle.io] these past few weeks, and it's time to show it to the world. Monocle is an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content with a focus on technology, startups and frankly anything
I’m only making business card sized games now
Over the years I’ve worked on many games, some big, some small. I’ve found that the smaller the game, the more fun I seem to have making it. So I set out to make the smallest game I pos…
AWS free tier data transfer expansion
The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]
China's Great Cannon
This post describes our analysis of an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China.
My Go executable files are still getting larger
The original draft of the analysis we presented was reviewed internally, and yet still inaccuracies slipped through. We are a team of humans. We make mistakes. We take full responsibility for the invalid conclusions we published.
Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account
Some people are probably pretty used to various blocking endeavours on social media. I am not one of them…
I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
My name is Erik, and I am a Dutch software developer. I also like to write fiction. One could say I spend a lot of time trying to capture the world in plain text. Source code for the small part of it that can be expressed in logical terms, stories for everything else.
Wing Commander III
Movies and computer games are my two favorite things. If I weren’t doing one I’d be doing the other.
Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
Today, as part of our efforts to make the web faster , we are announcing Google Public DNS , a new experimental public DNS resolver. The DNS...
Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Spliit has grown to 152k visitors, with community donations helping cover its hosting costs. Explore its usage trends, funding, and the contributors driving its development.
How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021
The demand for data engineers is growing rapidly. According to hired.com, the demand has increased by 45% in 2019. The median salary for Data Engineers in SF Bay Area is around $160k. So the question…