Throughout my life I have struggled with ADHD. I’ve been scolded, punished, caned and humiliated for my condition and spent many years dealing with suicidal thoughts around it and what it did to my life. Seeing I was broken and flawed, I set out to buy tons of medication to stop this terror that was…
In December 2021, Kaspersky uncovered “Owowa”, a previously unknown IIS module that steals credentials entered by a user when logging into Outlook Web Access (OWA). Since then, the company’s experts have kept an eye on the new opportunity for cybercriminal activity – it has become clear that deploying a backdoor within IIS is a trend…
UPDATE (2022/06/30) After some feedback from HN I also have an audio sample if you want to hear it! (Turn the sound down a little! There’s also a bunch of dead air after 15 seconds.) Your browser does not support the audio tag. tl;dr – Don’t chuck the Sony 1000XMs/AirPods just yet. Bluetooth headsets are…
San Francisco-based game development tools provider Unity is laying off hundreds of employees, according to a report from Kotaku. Word of the layoffs appears to have begun surfacing earlier this week on the anonymous workplace platform Blind, with numerous users claiming to work for Unity saying management was pulling employees into Zoom meetings on Tuesday…
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them… John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Steelmanning is like pouring Soju, a traditional Korean drink. In Korea, you’re not supposed to pour your own. Drinking etiquette demands…
India’s Reserve Bank has offered a scathing assessment of cryptocurrencies in its latest financial stability report – saying the risks they create demand attention before they undermine established institutions. “Cryptocurrencies are a clear danger,” the report baldly declares in its Foreword, penned by Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das. “Anything that derives value based on make…
Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything! tl;dr: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to “just work” without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point. Wayland solves no issues I…
Status: Final The W3C Member review of the Decentralized Identifier (DID) 1.0 Proposed Recommendation concluded with Formal Objections from three organizations. Google: DID-core is only useful with the use of “DID methods”, which need their own specifications. … It’s impossible to review the impact of the core DID specification on the Web without concurrently reviewing…
INTEGRITY Published tisdag 28 juni kl 09.40 Facebook say that their system is built to find and delete sensitive information, for example about people’s medication, illnesses and sex lives. By creating a made-up online pharmacy that has been visited by fictitious customers, Swedish Radio News can show that the social media giant saves sensitive information.…
by Denver Gingerich and Bradley M. Kuhn on June 30, 2022 Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major…
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept. In August 2021, Coinbase sold a single analytics software license to ICE for $29,000, followed by a software purchase potentially worth…
Placeholder while article actions load An English-language social media propaganda effort that previously criticized Hong Kong protesters and other foes of the Chinese government and has been linked to China has taken the rare step of going after private companies in a strategic industry, researchers said Tuesday. Accounts on Twitter and Facebook have been posing…
Deep in the human gut, myriad “good” bacteria and other microbes help us digest our food, as well as keep us healthy by affecting our immune, metabolic, and nervous systems. Some of these humble microbial assistants have been in our guts since before humans became human—certain gut microbes are found in almost all primates, suggesting…
Over the years, much has been written on the internet about developing multiplayer games. However, there is surprisingly little information available when it comes to deploying and managing production game infrastructure. Given the nature of multiplayer games, traditional backend infrastructure techniques often don’t apply – multiplayer games are inherently stateful and the latency requirements are…
Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use. The two main variants are unscii-8 (8×8 pixels per glyph) and unscii-16 (8×16). There are also several alternative styles for unscii-8, as well as an…
Frequently Asked Questions Why yet another programming language? Because there’s currently no high-level programming language for writing stateful software that I’m aware of. That’s the short answer. To elaborate a bit on that we need to discuss separately the three main types of what we generically refer to as “computation”: pure computation, state and updates,…
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept. In August 2021, Coinbase sold a single analytics software license to ICE for $29,000, followed by a software purchase potentially worth…
Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades, or fans that produce a persistent, whining buzz. Now MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines,…
Aluminum is just one-third the price and weight of copper, but it is only about 60% as conductive. Aluminum’s relatively low conductivity can be a limitation in some real-world applications. Credit: Shannon Colson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory In the world of electricity, copper is king—for now. That could change with new research from Pacific…
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Source: supplied. Until a few months ago, no company had created more wealth for its shareholders than Sydney-grown Atlassian. At its peak in October 2021, the Nasdaq-listed business was valued $162 billion. At the time, Atlassian was one of the most valuable Australian companies that ever existed (behind…
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