Highly motivated, incarcerated students surmount obstacles to further their education.

Today we're launching the crowdfunding of a laptop that doesn't have glued-in batteries, soldered-in storage or "security" chips that prevent you from exercising your right to repair. MNT Reform is a daring design that is as open and repairable as we could…

Designed to raise awareness for dev agencies and help them grow their businesses.

Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…

It’s true you can crash an email server with a single email! This guest blog post talks about a vulnerability found in the top five Node mail parsers that will bring each of them down just by clicking send. Joran Greef explains how he found the vulnerability…

Nature Communications - Designing energy efficient and scalable artificial networks for neuromorphic computing remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate tree-like conductance states at...

It looked like the deal of a lifetime.

Today I'm happy to release new research I've been working on for a while: 0-click RCE via MMS in all modern Samsung phones (released 2015+), due to numerous bugs in a little-known custom "Qmage" image codec supported by Skia on Samsung devices. Demo: you…

If you double-click English text in Chrome, the whitespace-delimited word you clicked on is highlighted. This is not surprising. However, the other day I was clicking while reading some text in Jap...

Uber lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter as its overseas investments were hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, but the company is looking to its growing food delivery business and aggressive cost-cutting ...

Elon Musk wants people to return to work. Google and Facebook Inc. have another message for their staff: get ready to stay home for all of 2020.

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DEF CON 28 has entered "Safe Mode with Networking"

I have shut down the in person conference
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You might even say that DEF CON 28 is Canceled

Theme song to listen to as you read this: DEF CON Is Canceled…

So, you expect life and work to be back to normal soon? Google and many other companies don't.

MIT researchers have proposed a technique for shrinking deep learning models that they say is simpler and produces more accurate results than state-of-the-art methods. It works by retraining the smaller, pruned model at its faster, initial learning rate.