Creative Use of Bitwise Operators

While at the Fronteers conference watching Thomas Fuchs go through his slides, a keen member of the audience noticed his use of bitwise negation and asked what it was for. Understandable, as there is... | Continue reading


@snook.ca | 4 years ago

Fake Bot Submissions to Public Can't Websites Cannot Be Distinguished from Human

Federal public comment websites currently are unable to detect Deepfake Text once submitted. I created a computer program (a bot) that generated and submitted 1,001 deepfake comments regarding a Medicaid reform waiver to a federal public comment website, stopping submission when … | Continue reading


@techscience.org | 4 years ago

San Francisco’s facial recognition ban made its employees’ iPhones illegal

The city banned local agencies from using gadgets equipped facial recognition technology in May, but problems with the ban quickly became apparent. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Thursday's parting shot

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 4 years ago

Wawa data breach for 10+ months

The malware exposed credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder names on payment cards used in-store and at gas pumps at potentially all locations. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

GNUnet 0.12.0

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@lists.gnu.org | 4 years ago

Star Wars as told by a 3-year-old…

This 3-year-old has an interesting take on what she saw when she watched Star Wars! | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

Fix your insecure security camera with Haicam end-to-end video encryption

Is your security camera secure? You would probably think it is. The word "security" is in the product name. But is it? Sometimes you may have to leave loved ones at home. You want them to feel safe and loved, even if you are away. A smart home security camera allows you to see an … | Continue reading


@store.haicam.tech | 4 years ago

Is Slack to Blame for Away's PR Nightmare

View Online A lot has happened since The Verge reported on Away’s toxic work environment. Most... | Continue reading


@angel.co | 4 years ago

Using PyTorch Models in Production with Cortex

2019 was, among other things, the year PyTorch — only three years old at this point — came to dominate machine learning research. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

CNN live feed of Democratic presidential debate goes black in Beijing

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

More Than Thirty Human Rights Groups Protest the Targeting of Digital Rights Defenders in Ecuador, Argentina, and Beyond

Protecting human rights comes in many forms. Some human rights defenders are lawyers, defending clients against violations of their basic humanity. Some are journalists, exposing corruption and the secret injustices that might otherwise hide behind power. Some are activists, work … | Continue reading


@eff.org | 4 years ago

Favorite Books of 2019

From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths. | Continue reading


@brainpickings.org | 4 years ago

The Six Days of Cybersecurity Gifts – Chuck Davis

This is the time of year when many of us wind down our busy work schedules and focus a little more on family and giving. In the spirit of giving, here are six cybersecurity gifts that you can buy for family, friends, or yourself. Obligatory Disclaimer: I will not benefit in a … | Continue reading


@ckd3.com | 4 years ago

Superhero Bits: ‘Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee’ Clip, Why Nite Owl Didn’t Make It Into HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ & More

Why wasn't Nite Owl in the first season of Watchmen? Which critics group awarded Joker the honor of Best Picture? All that and more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

100+ New Year’s Activities To Do With Your Kids from Home!

Even if you're staying home, this seasons New Year's activities don't have to be boring. Make everyone some fruity bubble tea and start the count down! | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

The wires are crossed, literally! - Learning low level computing with Ben Eater's 6502 kit

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@hanselman.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Spin up your own ridesharing app in an hour

We were encouraged when the developer community went nuts with the open-source Uber-for-X sample app built with HyperTrack in 2017. Since then, we’ve only seen more and more demand from ridesharing, gig economy and Uber-for-X apps using HyperTrack for live location. | Continue reading


@hypertrack.com | 4 years ago

Trump Should Be Removed from Office

It’s time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president’s character was revealed for what it was. | Continue reading


@christianitytoday.com | 4 years ago

‘Tic Tac’ UFO Video: Q&A with Navy Pilot Chad Underwood

Chad Underwood, the Navy pilot who filmed the infamous ‘Tic Tac’ UFO video released a few years ago, gives his first-ever interview. | Continue reading


@nymag.com | 4 years ago

Deploying CSRF to an Active Site

At Zumba, I implemented CSRF protection to all our state-changing user inputs. With a large and complicated site, implementing CSRF is a very tricky ordeal. There are several strategies with varying degrees of difficulty and effectiveness to consider. The real challenge, which is … | Continue reading


@chris-saylor.com | 4 years ago

Building a Data Warehouse on Amazon Redshift

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@theseattledataguy.com | 4 years ago

The Incompatible Food Triad

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@georgehart.com | 4 years ago

Paid Leave and Remote Work: Impact on Illness (CDC Study)

Practices that actively encourage employees to stay home when ill are crucial to reduce transmission in workplaces. | Continue reading


@wwwnc.cdc.gov | 4 years ago

‘Medical Police’ Trailer: This New Netflix Comedy is About Doctors…Who Are Also Cops

Netflix has released the Medical Police trailer from the creators of Childrens Hospital starring Rob Huebel and Erinn Hayes as doctors who are cops. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Tide / CryptoHopper to enable keyless algo-trading on crypto-exchanges

Collaboration enables unprecedented advanced cryptocurrency trading capabilities without compromising security. | Continue reading


@tide.org | 4 years ago

Tide’s Keyless Cryptography: Delegate Signing Explained ELI5: Keyless Trading

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@tide.org | 4 years ago

Citizens United shaped the decade in countless outrageous ways

It’s hard to overstate the impact of this one devastating case on the past 10 years of American politics. | Continue reading


@slate.com | 4 years ago

AMD-joins-blockchain-game-alliance

Computer hardware maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) is joining a collaboration of companies seeking to boost the use of blockchain-powered gaming platforms. AMD said it joined the Blockchain Game Alliance, to help spur the increased use of blockchain in gaming, an … | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 4 years ago

Mechanical Binary to Decimal Translation

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Alpine Linux 3.11.0 Released

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@alpinelinux.org | 4 years ago

Is the quest for immortality worse than death?

There are some people who find the prospect of death so abhorrent they arrange for their corpses to be frozen, in the hope that one day they can be resurrected. Others, such as the director of engineering at Google, Ray Kurzweil, think they might achieve immortality by having the … | Continue reading


@newstatesman.com | 4 years ago

Android camera bug let hackers spy on users even if phone is LOCKED&screen isOFF

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@kontackt.co | 4 years ago

Israeli WhatsApp-hacking spy van scandal triggers privacy breach probe in Cyprus

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@kontackt.co | 4 years ago

Watching the debate? Play along and “vote” for candidates you agree with

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@debate.games | 4 years ago

1.2B hacked accounts from unsecure Google cloud server:O

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@kontackt.co | 4 years ago

Dawerly – Reach to turkish goods and products

The first trade B2B platform for Turkish products and goods, directory of Turkish factories and companies between your hands | Continue reading


@dawerly.com | 4 years ago

‘Little America’ Trailer: Immigrants Chase the American Dream in New Apple TV+ Series

Apple TV+ has released the Little America trailer for the upcoming comedy anthology series co-created by Rob McElhenney and Megan Ganz. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

There Is No Design System

Jina Anne silences the night to talk about how we talk about Design Systems. Can the language we use impact the effectiveness of the solution? Fear not, if mighty dread has seized your troubled mind. Design systems of great joy we bring to you and all mankind. | Continue reading


@24ways.org | 4 years ago

Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters

In software, you frequently need to check whether some objects is in a set. For example, you might have a list of forbidden Web addresses. As someone enters a new Web address, you may want to check whether it is part of your black list. Or maybe you have a large list of already u … | Continue reading


@lemire.me | 4 years ago

Emoji Modifiers and Sequence Combinations

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@eng.getwisdom.io | 4 years ago

Building a rocket is hard. But building a parachute is boggling

Even SpaceX and Boeing, which have accomplished great engineering feats, are still grappling with the tech. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 4 years ago

Time-Sharing in 12KW: Running TSS/8 on Real PDP-8 Hardware

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@engblg.livingcomputers.org | 4 years ago

Switzerland is switching off its first nuclear plant on Friday

Switzerland is set to switch off its first nuclear power station. But pressing the “off” button is just the start of an estimated 15-year process. | Continue reading


@swissinfo.ch | 4 years ago

Predicting duration and complexity: Apache Projects use-case

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@devduckydemo.com | 4 years ago

‘Impractical Jokers: The Movie’ Trailer: The Hidden Camera Prank Show is Coming to Theaters

The Impractical Jokers movie trailers shows off the big screen debut of the comedians who have been embarrassing each other on TV since 2011. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

UCS Satellite Database Update: More Than 2,200 Active Satellites

We have updated the UCS Satellite Database, including launches through September 30, 2019. Lots of movement this time, with 209 satellites added and 53 removed for a total of 2,218 actively working satellites.Much of the growth is being driven by the deployment of large commercia … | Continue reading


@allthingsnuclear.org | 4 years ago

ContractPatch: Supporting Maintainers in Employment Agreements

Since we've launched ContractPatch, I've heard a lot of feedback from free software contributors about the successes they've had in negotiating their employment agreements. While not everyone has achieved full modification to the agreement, so far everyone who's reported back had … | Continue reading


@sfconservancy.org | 4 years ago