Enigma is known as the WWII cipher, but how does it hold up in 2021? Dr Mike Pound implemented it and shows how it stacks up against his laptop.

Mikes Code:
http://bit.ly/C_Mike_enigma

Cryptool v2 is here:
http://bit.ly/C_Cryptool

The original paper…

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April is upon us, and we have a most timely release for you — Firefox 88. In this release you will find a bunch of nice CSS additions.

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Celebrating the nearly 12,000 developers who aided Ingenuity's first Martian flight with a profile badge that recognizes their contributions to this historic achievement.

Is it a Pokémon or a BigData tech?

Steam is the most popular PC game launcher in the world. It gives millions of people the chance to play their favorite video games with their friends using the built in friend and party system, so it’s safe to assume most users have accepted an invite at…

Researchers from the University of Minnesota secretly tried to add security vulnerabilities to Linux kernel, but they were caught and banned.

Computer Programming.

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SIMD-accelerated UTF-8 validation for Rust. Contribute to rusticstuff/simdutf8 development by creating an account on GitHub.

We believe that this change allows our community and users to have the same core freedoms of free and open source software that they have enjoyed since the inception of Grafana Labs and encourages third parties to also contribute back.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the heads of the Linux kernel dev team, has banned the University of Minnesota from further contributing as the latter had injected questionable patches for research.

A year ago at BUILD 2020 we introduced our goal to bring Linux GUI applications to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux GUI applications. We are proud to announce the first preview of this highly anticipated and open source feature!

Widely used forensic software can be exploited to infect investigators' computers.

Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included…

In this article, the author explores the concept of "brown" and "green" programming languages based on the Stack Overflow Devel...

I installed Windows NT 3.1 on a Compaq ProSignia 3080 system, because of several reasons: I know that this machine was running Windows NT 3.1 when it was in productive use. And I think this machine...

We are fortunate that so many people choose Chrome as their browser to get things done, which is why we are continually investing in making ...