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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
These efforts will evolve and expand over time. – Apple on their “Expanded Protections for Children” I am broke “non-liquid” right now. Normally, that sentence doesn&#…
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Mess with DNS
New tool: Mess with DNS!
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Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossibl
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PostgreSQL 14
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html), the latest version of the world’s [most advanced …
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Apple Introduces AirTag
Apple today introduced AirTag, an accessory that works with iPhone and other Apple devices to track and find important belongings.
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From Node to Ruby on Rails
I learned to code in the Javascript stack [1] and am building a Javascript based product [2]. I never questioned this stack: many companies default to it, JS everywhere seems good, and the community is big. But for my new side project I decided to try Rails because despite some...
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NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
While analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, we discovered a zero-day zero-click exploit against iMessage. The exploit, which we call FORCEDENTRY, targets Apple’s image rendering library, and was effective against Apple iOS, MacOS and WatchOS devices.
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This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Project Zero Introduction This is an unusual blog post. I normally wri...
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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA
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Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
It is possible to compute over encrypted data without access to the secret key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
A look into the tech and tools used by Winterbloom
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Burning out and quitting
I'm burnt out. If you're reading this, there's a strong chance you're burnt out too. We're about to have, uh, a moment, so brace yourself.
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Let’s fix font size
What happens when you set fontSize: 32 in your favorite editor
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MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
For the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the first fusion power plant that can produce more energy than…
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EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
Phoenix, Arizona—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit today against Proctorio Inc. on behalf of college student Erik Johnson, seeking a judgment that he didn’t infringe the company’s copyrights when he linked to excerpts of its software code in tweets criticizing the software...
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Who Owns My Name?
Does my name belong to me? Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my name used to refer to events I had no hand in? I return to…
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The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.
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Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.
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Still alive
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
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I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
This is the story of how I found what I believe to be scientific misconduct and what happened when I reported it. Science is supposed to b...
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Killing TurboTax
An API to compute the tax position in real time, reaching consumers via neobanks and challenger banks like Cash App, Chime and others.
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender
I know a number of folks use The Great Suspender to automatically suspend inactive browser tabs in Chrome. Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity and is now flagged by Microsoft as malware . Notably the most recent version of the extension (v7.1.8) has added…
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The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
It occurred to me that long bass strings sounded better. When I was 14 I asked my piano teacher how long a bass a string would need to be if it had no copper on it at all. The answer was “Adrian the string would be so long it would go on for ever!” so with this in mind I did an experiment where I could find that…
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Changes at Basecamp
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company…
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The Deno Company
We have raised money to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft.
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The most underused browser feature: reader mode
A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.
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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
Researchers developed an algorithm that shows just how much more effective Spotify would be if it incorporated both likes and dislikes, in the style of platforms like Pandora.
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