The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06457-y
Nature
The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
Nature - We present the complete 62,460,029-base-pair sequence of a human Y chromosome from the HG002 genome (T2T-Y) that corrects multiple errors in GRCh38-Y and adds over 30 million base...
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform https://opentf.org/announcement
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
Tylervigen
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
The worst programmer I know https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/
Dan North & Associates Ltd
The Worst Programmer I Know
The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.
Is this Duplo train track under too much tension? https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/122232/is-this-duplo-train-track-under-too-much-tension
Puzzling Stack Exchange
Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
My kids were making this train track of duplo the other day, and this is what they put together. They are still very young, and for them, this is something big. They were really proud that they cre...
NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
The Citizen Lab
BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild - The Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices. We…
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
Chemistry World
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.
Nginx Unit – Universal web app server https://github.com/nginx/unit
GitHub
GitHub - nginx/unit: NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the…
NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the application stack by natively executing application code across eight different programmin...
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=108749
Microsoft News
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/09/13/the-million-dollar-reporter
Meduza
The million-dollar reporter
The public has known for years that governments around the world use software developed by an Israeli cyber-arms company to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, and activists. Investigative journalists published a series of bombshell reports in July…
Don’t mess with a genius (2010) https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dont-mess-with-a-genius/
The Lumber Room
Don’t mess with a genius
Or: What happens when Newton’s laws are violated (Note in case you see ads here: This post is also available at my newer blog.) Recently, I read a book called Newton and the Counterfeiter, su…
How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021) https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/
Lu's blog
How FoundationDB works and why it works
FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD'21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It's a dense paper packed with neat ideas.…
OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era https://www.openra.net/
www.openra.net
Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt
Cisco Acquires Splunk https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html
Splunk
Splunk and Cisco Unite To Accelerate Digital Resilience as One of the Leading Global Software Companies | Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.