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People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have

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The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence



The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content - generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The…

Chances are you might have heard of io_uring. It first appeared in Linux 5.1, back in 2019, and was advertised as the new API for asynchronous I/O. Its goal was to be an alternative to the deemed-to-be-broken-beyond-repair AIO, the “old” asynchronous I/O…

An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.
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Using your own products is a great way to gain customer insights, drive innovation, and stay ahead of the competition. Here's how to get started.

Whether for use in cybersecurity, gaming or scientific simulation, the world needs true random numbers, but generating them is harder than one might think. But a group of Brown University physicists has ...

The problem was a broadcast containing image files with no extensions.

Continuing the geographical game journey with some performance improvements, bug fixes, graphical upgrades, and a variety of experiments.

If you'd like to try running the game in its current state, there's a free download available here:
https://sebasti…

Some of the tricks we used to speed up calls to our analytics API written in Python: played with asyncio, messed with SQLAlchemy, hacked…

Job seeking is hard - especially when you factor the ambiguity around expectations, the lack of transparency and consistency around process...

Le 10 juillet 2023, la Commission européenne a adopté une nouvelle décision d’adéquation concernant les États-Unis.

How it works The feature reflows existing data, essentially rewriting it onto a new arrangement of disks – meaning the original group plus a newly added disk. In so doing, a new adjacent chunk of free space is created at the end of the logical RAID-Z group…

Use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France — after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month. The French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, said today that an unnamed local website’s use of Google…

Posted in r/programming by u/TheGreatGameDini • 201 points and 52 comments

How to use Go

A closer look into PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB.

North Korea-based hackers, Lazarus, attacking defense industry by offering fake Lockheed Martin jobs in a new phishing campaign.