Grsecurity – FAQ about RAP
Frequently Asked Questions About RAPWhat are code reuse attacks? Why have they resisted defenses up to now?To explain this story fully, we need some historical context. Since the late 1990s,...
View ArticleScientists Predict Star Collision Visible to the Naked Eye in 2022
Scientists predict a star collision in the constellation Cygnus. NASA/IPAC/MSX hide captiontoggle caption NASA/IPAC/MSX Scientists predict that a pair of stars in the constellation Cygnus will collide...
View Article'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
Image copyrightThinkstockTeeth can be encouraged to repair themselves in a way that could see an end to fillings, say scientists.The team at King's College London showed that a chemical could encourage...
View ArticleDebugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control via USB port
Are attacks on the physical layer on the rise? Researchers from Positive Technologies have revealed that some new Intel CPUs contain a debugging interface, accessible via USB 3.0 ports, that can be...
View ArticleTINY: VNC for DOS
Tiny remote control for DOS Overview TINY is a set of programs that lets you control a DOS computer from any Java-capable machine over a TCP/IP connection. It is comparable to programs like VNC,...
View ArticleWhat Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs
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View ArticleMiso (YC S16) Hiring Engineers in Seoul, South Korea
Miso (YC S16) Hiring Engineers in Seoul, South Korea1 hour ago | hideMiso was founded in August of 2015. Our customers can instantly book quality home cleanings in South Korea. 15 months after starting...
View ArticleHow removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%
A colleague and I were looking at how our flagship product, Klarna Checkout, loads in the browser and contemplating ways to improve the performance. We decided that we wanted to defer some of the work...
View ArticleMobile Website Speed Testing Tool
Powered by PageSpeed Insights| Experienced developer?Go here Today, more people search on mobile phones than computers. People are 5 times more likely to leave a site if it isn't mobile-friendly....
View ArticleShow HN: An audio only social network
1 minuteRemember, your story is limited to a minute or less. No drawn-out, snooze-feststories (you know the type).Social MediaYour amazing stories can also be shared to your Facebook or Twitter...
View ArticleGo 1.8 Release Candidate 1 is released
Hello gophers,We have just released go1.8rc1, a release candidate of Go 1.8.It is cut from release-branch.go1.8 at the revision tagged go1.8rc1.Thank you to everyone who has helped to test Go 1.8 so...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Your City Has No Money
Lafayette, Louisiana, has a population of around 125,000. That makes it about the 200th largest city in the country; not really big but not really all that small either. It has a unique culture and...
View ArticleNew Jersey passes landmark open data law
An Act requiring the availability of certain public information of State departments and agencies, and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General...
View ArticleThe design of Chacha20
{ title: The design of Chacha20 description: Chacha20 is a secure, fast, and amazingly simple encryption algorithm. Let's take a look. } January 2017 (Update: thanks Thomas Ptacek for [pointing...
View ArticleWhen You Are Depressed, Make Something
Depression doesn’t discriminate. Everyone is a potential target for it, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, geographical location, or income. We are all subject to its grasp, and remember, it’s not...
View ArticleThe dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of Google’s most revolutionary phone
It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make.On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, Dutch designer Dave Hakkens uploaded a video to YouTube to promote...
View ArticleRecommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals
Hanani, U., Shapira, B.& Shoval, P.Information filtering: Overview of issues, research and systems. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction11, 203–259 (2001).Schein, A. I., Popescul, A., Ungar,...
View ArticleHTTPS on NYTimes.com
We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content. This is a significant...
View ArticleBook Review: Designing Distributed Control Systems
My first reaction after having started reading this book was disappointment. I had been looking for a book about designing distributed systems, but the introduction had stated that this would be a...
View ArticleA large slab of ice is breaking off an Antarctic glacier
A 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf, as seen in November 2016.John Sonntag/IceBridge/NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterA slab of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island is cracking...
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