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Months ago I noticed something strange in the Little Snitch Network Monitor: Safari was still connecting to web sites after every window had been closed. At the time, I thought this was just a Safari bug. I brought the issue to the attention of some Safari engineers, who I had hoped would look into it. Since then…
Oldest registered domain names in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains
Yesterday the New York Times and ProPublica posted a lengthy investigation based on leaked NSA documents, outlining the extensive surveillance collaboration between AT&T and the U.S. government…
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Ngrok is a fantastic tool for creating a secure tunnel from the public web to a machine behind NAT or a firewall. Sadly, it costs money and it’s proprietary. If you’re a developer, odds are that you’re already renting a server in the public cloud, so why not roll your own ngrok?
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
One of my longest-running projects has been an open hardware Ethernet switch. This has been one of the key driving forces behind many of my other projects, such as ngscopeclient and the high speed probes. It was also the project that got me into high speed digital design.
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.
Falcon enables an order-of-magnitude improvement over software-only transports. Today at the OCP Global Summit, Google is excited to open Falcon to the ecosystem through the Open Compute Project.
The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye-catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded audio file…
Feb 2015: 3½ years later, we’re in a better place. The new IE Spartan project has killed off document modes . (Technically, still possible in firewall environments, but… effectively dead for us.) These days, our IE support landscape is IE8 (still), IE11, and IE Mobile. 3 is definitely better than 72.
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
No matter where you go, there you are If you're like me, you travel occasionally. Access to your office from home, or from an airport loun...
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
We tested and benchmarked 42 of some of the most popular top-level domains and aggregated the results into a global median average.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! How is your cybersecurity practice going?
SMS Privacy is available as a Tor hidden service, and it turns out ~10% of users actually use it that way. This post details what I found when somebody created a phishing site of my Tor hidden service.
Why the integration has been removed from Home Assistant in 2023.10.2.
For decades, municipal broadband operations have been subject to a minefield of restrictions and barriers designed to make the prospect of establishing or maintaining a community broadband network costly, difficult, and unsustainable. The Biden administration initially pledged that the Broadband Equity, Access, and…
London's Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page s...
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure. Highways, railways, bridges, and ports require nation-scale efforts. The water supply is usually put into the hands of…
