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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.
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RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability
Today we’re proud to announce RethinkDB 2.1 ( Forbidden Planet ). Download it now !
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An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running
When you buy a video game, you expect to be able to play it for as long as you want. You expect be able to play it with your kids many years from now if you want (well, maybe not Grand Theft Auto). And you would hope that museums and media historians could preserve the games that were so important...
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Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents
EFF recently won our challenge to invalidate claims of the “podcasting patent” using a procedure at the Patent Office called inter partes review. This procedure allowed us to challenge a patent that was being used to demand licenses from individual podcasters, even though EFF itself had never been...
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Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
Blog about network and security, showing example of Linux iptables and Snort configuration, and Windows security softwares.
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Bubble talk
I’m tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there’s a bubble in tech. I understand that it’s fun to do and easy press, but it’s boring reading. I also understand that it might...
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Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler
Today we announce Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler designed for microservices and batch workloads. Nomad is distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes spanning multiple datacenters and regions. Nomad provides a common workflow to deploy applications across an infrastructure. Developers use a…
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Google seems to have broken email forwarding
Basically: I'm finding it impossible to reliably convince Google that email from my employees, to my employees, is not spam. I run my own mail server, but most of my employees use Gmail. So I have forwarding set up: employee@dnalounge.com simply forwards to employee@gmail.com. When sending mail using their Gmail…
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Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
Digital analyzer. IMSI catcher. Stingray. Triggerfish. Dirt box. Cell-site simulator. The list of aliases used by the devices that masquerade as a cell phone tower, trick your phone into connecting with them, and suck up your data, seems to grow every day. But no matter what name cell-site...
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Linear Algebra: What matrices are
Most high school students in the United States learn about matrices and matrix multiplication, but they often are not taught why matrix multiplication works the way it does. Adding matrices is easy…
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Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images
Have you ever wondered how Google Photos helps you find all your favorite dog photos? With today’s release of Google Cloud Vision API , deve...
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about selfies
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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On the Juniper backdoor
You might have heard that a few days ago, Juniper Systems announced the discovery of “unauthorized code” in the ScreenOS software that underlies the NetScreen line of devices. As a resu…
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Clojure 2014 Year in Review
My unscientific, incomplete, thoroughly biased view of interesting things that happened with Clojure in 2014.
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Telegram Bot Platform
Telegram 3.0 introduces Bot Platform — free, open and super easy to use
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The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness , web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads .
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Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer This post updates our previous notification of a misissued certificate for google.com Followin...
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Practical Data Science in Python
Find, classify and remediate PII across your files, email, databases and cloud. Accurate AI-powered PII discovery – on-premise or SaaS.
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Clojure 1.7 is now available
We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.7. The two headline features for 1.7 are transducers and reader conditionals. Also see the complete list ...