Umbra Privacy Platform
UMBRA uses ShadowCash as its underlying currency. It goes beyond other digital currencies to make transactions invisible to the public eye, but still nearly seamless for users, who can conduct their...
View ArticleThe ESP32 has been released
A few years ago, a strange little chip showed up on Seeed Studio one day. It was the ESP8266, originally sold as a serial to WiFi adapter. Since then, the microcontroller in this wee WiFi module was...
View ArticleHow we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
We are in the midst of 2014. The first months after the Beta-Phase had passed and our first major update brought many new features and a completely new design. Additionally and shortly before that, we...
View ArticleITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
ITT Educational Services Inc. has abruptly shut down its eponymous for-profit technical schools, closing more than 130 campuses and leaving as many as 40,000 students stranded in one of the largest...
View ArticleEU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
Free Knowledge For AllThis week was a revolutionary week in the sciences—not because we discovered a new fundamental particle or had a new breakthrough in quantum computing—but because some of the most...
View ArticleCA:WoSign Issues
This page lists all confirmed or suspected issues involving the CA "WoSign". It will be updated by Mozilla as more information becomes available. Please do not edit this page yourself; if you have...
View ArticleInfinite Noise – Simple, Open-Source TRNG
README.mdFor instructions for compiling the and using Infinite Noise TRNG driver, go to the software sub-directory, and read the README file there. Both Linux and Windows are supported.The Infinite...
View ArticleApproaching fairness in machine learning
As machine learning increasingly affects domains protected by anti-discrimination law, there is much interest in the problem of algorithmically measuring and ensuring fairness in machine learning....
View ArticleAMD’s Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology [video]
Offentliggjort den 6. sep. 2016AMD recently disclosed the new Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) x86 technologies which leverage hardware-based memory encryption...
View ArticleLessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
On a summer day in 1968, professor Julian Stanley met a brilliant but bored 12-year-old named Joseph Bates. The Baltimore student was so far ahead of his classmates in mathematics that his parents had...
View ArticleLinux debugging tools you'll love
HELLO FRIENDS. I am announcing this everywhere because I'm very excited about it. I released a new zine today! Read it here! Read all my zine things at jvns.ca/zines!This zine is about some of my...
View ArticleGo 1.7.1 Released
This page summarizes the changes between official stable releases of Go. The change log has the full details.To update to a specific release, use: git pull git checkout release-branchRelease Policy...
View ArticleDonald Knuth speaks about his life [video]
If you want to go way back, if you go… like 16 of my great-great-grandparents… in 1840 they all would have been in Germany, but by 1870 they all were in America. So if, you know… consider all the...
View ArticleThe privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
It used to be that server logs were just boring utility files whose most dramatic moments came when someone forgot to write a script to wipe out the old ones and so they were left to accumulate until...
View ArticleZenysis (YC W16) is hiring engineers for global health and humanitarian crises
Zenysis helps governments and international organizations analyze massive volumes of data for insights that save lives.Developing countries are already using our platform to analyze the health data of...
View ArticleYou Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky
Offentliggjort den 8. sep. 2015(a private presentation to Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek)The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti spreadsheets, and makes me...
View Article‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll
RICHMOND, Va. – Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did fine in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first 10 days of his life.Then, suddenly, his tiny body started to swell. Overnight, he...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard Enterprise sells its software business
HPE CEO Meg WhitmanHPEThe rumored sale of Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise's software unit was officially announced today.The company says it is creating a company with Micro Focus for the unit in a...
View ArticleAmazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. This new version has several features that make page loading and rendering faster. HTTP/2 is enabled by default for all new Amazon CloudFront...
View ArticleDell Closes $60B Merger with EMC
Updated Sept. 7, 2016 10:15 a.m. ETDell Inc. Wednesday said it completed its $60 billion deal to acquire EMC Corp., the largest technology merger in history.The new company, to be named Dell...
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