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Why I left Google
How I became the focus of a mass ritual against generative AI, and what I did about it.
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Ten Years of JMAP
We announced JMAP 10 years ago, here is an update on its progress
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Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
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TOTP Codes in the Terminal
The demise of Authy desktop has brought about a number of changes, probably the one of which I most appreciate is a mobile app which lets me edit codes: with 2FAS I can edit labels on codes, and I’...
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Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
Meta's release of Llama 3.2 marks a turning point where open-source AI models match and even surpass proprietary models.
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The asymmetry of nudges
Answering the age-old question: why do bad decisions happen to good companies?
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How Mihoyo's monetization works
You open your favourite social media site. You see the same discussions come up again.
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There are too many damn honeypots
VulnCheck faces a horde of honeypots while assessing the potential impact of Atlassian Confluence's CVE-2023-22527. This blog delves into Shodan queries to filter out honeypots and uncover the actual on-premise Confluence install base.
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White space does matter in C23
Usually in C identifiers are not directly followed by strings. But when U prefixed literals were introduced in C. there still were some rare clashes with existing code. This happened were a macro U…
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How Chainalysis made their way into popular Monero wallets
An investigation into how malicious nodes run by Chainalysis made their way into defaults of popular Monero wallets.
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Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
An intuitive explanation of the James-Stein estimator.
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Attacks on machine learning models
HN discussion
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English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search
Posted by Christian Plagemann, Director, and Katya Cox, Product Manager, Google Research Learning a language can open up new opportunities in a per...
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A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer
Academic website for Stefan Abi-Karam.
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Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust
Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling. Even though it’s a catchy title, panics are hardly suited for this goal, even if you try to hack around with macros and libraries. The real star is the unwinding mechanism, which powers panics. This post is the first in a series…
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
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New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation
In a paper published in Physical Review X on May 13, a quartet of physicists and computer scientists expand the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers introduce mathematical equations that reveal the minimum and maximum…
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Building an open data pipeline in 2024
Using Iceberg allows us to pick the optimal "big data" compute environment for the specific requirements we have. There's no need to limit yourself to a single solution.
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Why Certificate Lifecycle Automation Matters
If you’ve perused the ActivityPub feed of certificates whose keys are known to be compromised , and clicked on the “Show More” button to see the name of the certificate issuer, you may have noticed that some issuers seem to come up again and again. This might make sense – after all, if a CA is issuing a large volume…
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Well-Known Secrets of AmigaDOS
In keeping with the Commodore tradition of cost cutting, most consumer models of their Amiga line of computers came with severely watered down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception from this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have gotten any documentation for the command line part…
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How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL
And why it is so easy to get wrong...
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TLA from First Principles
Building an intuition for the mathematics behind the "TLA" in "TLA+"
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Bump Allocation: Up or Down?
Back in 2019, Nick Fitzgerald published always bump downwards, an article making the case that for bump allocators, bumping “down” (towards lower addresses) is better than bumping up. The biggest reasons for this are bumping up requires 3 branches vs 2 for bumping down and rounding down requires fewer instructions…
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Pwned Certificates on the Fediverse
As well as the collection and distribution of compromised keys , the pwnedkeys project also matches those pwned keys against issued SSL certificates. I’m excited to announce that, as of the beginning of 2024, all matched certificates are now being published on the Fediverse , thanks to the botsin.space Mastodon server.
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Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.