Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror https://www.digitalviolence.org/
digitalviolence.org
Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
Forensic Architecture’s Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group.
Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/PCkKU357M2Q/
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-moving-above/
WIRED
How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above
Vibrations from cars and pedestrians create unique signals in cables. Now scientists have used the trick to show how Covid-19 brought life to a halt.
The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-idempotency-key-header-00
IETF Datatracker
The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field
The HTTP Idempotency-Key request header field can be used to carry idempotency key in order to make non-idempotent HTTP methods such as "POST" or "PATCH" fault-tolerant.
When static makes your C code 10 times faster https://mazzo.li/posts/c-performance-anecdote.html
mazzo.li
When `static` makes your C code 10 times faster
Stop mocking your system https://blog.bitgloss.ro/2020/10/stop-mocking-your-system/
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/27/ray-a-distributed-framework-for-emerging-ai-applications.html
Write a time-series database engine from scratch https://nakabonne.dev/posts/write-tsdb-from-scratch/
Ryo Nakao
Write a time-series database engine from scratch
It covers how to make a time-series database engine from scratch
EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/02/eu-antitrust-head-warns-against-apple-using-privacy-security-to-stave-off-competition
AppleInsider
Apple shouldn't use privacy & security to stave off competition, EU antitrust head warns
Responding to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook in June, European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said that Apple shouldn't use privacy and security concerns to stifle competition on the App Store.
Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017) https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
Let’s Build a Simple Database
How Does a Database Work?
Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C
Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns https://github.com/jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension
GitHub
GitHub - jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension: Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns - GitHub - jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension: Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time? https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time
The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-internet-speeds
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Future Is in Symmetrical, High-Speed Internet Speeds
Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband
Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design https://labs.sentinelone.com/bypassing-macos-tcc-user-privacy-protections-by-accident-and-design/
SentinelOne
Bypassing macOS TCC User Privacy Protections By Accident and Design - SentinelLabs
TCC is meant to protect user data from unauthorized access, but design flaws mean users and malware can bypass TCC, even by accident.
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly https://cprimozic.net/blog/speeding-up-webcola-with-webassembly/
Casey Primozic's Blog
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust + WebAssembly