Dr Muiris Houston: We must weigh the shortage of human organs against animal rights

FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google’s controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead. In its place, Google today announced a new proposal:…

There is little evidence of a pandemic-induced surge in automation

The counterintuitive principle that explains the modern world.

Our nuclear regulator: - 2,868 employees - $863m budget - 47 years in operation - LICENSE APPROVALS: ZERO twitter.com/elidourado/sta…

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Scientific Reports - Near-infrared photoluminescence of Portland cement

Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets have been long been used to reduce seizure frequency and more recently have been promoted for a variety of health condi...

Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto. - drduh/YubiKey-Guide

By now, it’s likely that you saw the Bloomberg article about Google SREs’ mental health, which among others quotes my friend Mike Knell, and if not, I do recommend you start by giving t…

More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source…

At 16:48 UTC on Tuesday Jan 25, 2022, a third party informed Let’s Encrypt / ISRG that, while examining the Boulder codebase, they had noticed two instances of specification non-compliance in our implementation of the “TLS Using ALPN” validation method (BRs…

Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have found a new approach for combining data acquired wirelessly from a large number of sensors. The technique is based on considering the &...

Every Sunday, I send out a newsletter called cron.weekly to over 10.000 subscribers. In this post, I’ll do a deep-dive into how those mails get delivered to subscribers.

Every Bitcoin transaction is stored in the distributed database known as the Bitcoin blockchain. However, people have found ways to hack ...

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