Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund
Adobe announced that they will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member.
Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images
This blog post is one of several guest blog posts, where we invite participants of our bug bounty program to write about bugs they've reported to us. This is a ...
Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion
A study to assess how ride-sharing impacts urban mobility in the United States found ride-sharing increased both intensity and duration of road congestion while there was no significant change in private vehicle ownership.
Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
PC Engines apu lead times
EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance
Today, EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments, financial records can be deeply personal and revealing, containing a...
Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
Today, noyb.eu sent over 500 draft complaints to companies who use unlawful cookie banners - making it the largest wave of complaints since the GDPR came into force.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.
Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
Justice at Spotify
Spotify is growing in value, yet music workers everywhere see little more than pennies in compensation for the work they make. With the entire live music ecosystem in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic, music workers are more reliant on streaming income than ever. We are calling on Spotify to
Best practices for writing code comments
While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than…
Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
Today is a doubly important day: it marks the final day of the PEARL campaign and it is a celebration of another victory for the life extension community.
Pursue High-Quality Leisure
If I stop surfing the Internet, what am I going to do all day?
Why I Didn't Open-Source My Second SaaS
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
Running BGP in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Update your Dell devices now! SentinelLabs discover five high severity flaws in Dell firmware update driver impacting desktops, laptops, notebooks & more.
Arabian Nights
“It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight. Now this boy had been from h…
VPN users unmasked by zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media routers
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
Rust for Windows 0.9
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur
GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling
GitHub Actions now supports ephemeral (i.e. single job) self-hosted runners and a new workflow_job webhook to make autoscaling your runners easier. After a job is run, ephemeral runners are automatically…
Docker container security cheat sheet
Discover essential Docker Security Best Practices for DevOps engineers and security professionals. Cheat sheet included for quick implementation!