KDE 4.10 has been released.
The KDE Community is proud to announce the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the premier collection of Free Software for home and professional use. Special thanks to the KDE Quality…
What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014
Every few months, the Ember core team likes to get together to discuss issues face-to-face and set our priorities for the following quarter. This time, we all converged on Portland, Oregon...
Going Beyond Vulnerability Rewards
Posted by Michal Zalewski, Google Security Team We all benefit from the amazing volunteer work done by the open source community. That’s w...
Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park
The work of Bletchley Park during the Second World War is inspirational-numerous codes were broken and incalculable lives were saved. It is important to remember that code breaking at Bletchley Par…
Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1
This is the first in a series of posts on the principles of software engineering. There's far more...
Nice Security Mindset Example
A real-world one-way function: Alice and Bob procure the same edition of the white pages book for a particular town, say Cambridge. For each letter Alice wants to encrypt, she finds a person in the book whose last name starts with this letter and uses his/her phone number as the encryption of that letter. To decrypt…
Is work necessary?
I saw this bouncing around Facebook, and I would like to endorse the underlying philosophy:
How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)
For two years I suffered from severe hand, wrist, and forearm pain while typing. After spending a lot of money on world-class medical professionals and ergonomic products but seeing poor results, I was ultimately able to cure all my pain by reading The Mindbody Prescription (TMP). Now I can type for as long as I want…
Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency
So it’s a scam, and you’ll lose all your money, but on the plus side, you’ll have helped make the only habitable planet we have uninhabitable.