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2012-12-31: Nobel winner slates Britain's 'stupid' immigration reforms.
2012-12-31: How multi-disk failures happen.
2012-12-31: Road safety statistics for Cambridge, 2009-2011.
2012-12-31: Testing Golang on the Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD.
2012-12-31: Extraordinary rendition verdict in the European court of human rights.
2012-12-31: RJSON: compress JSON to JSON.
2012-12-31: Food science secrets of chocolate.
2012-12-31: Please god, save the British economy.
2012-12-31: Santa Claus on science fiction and superhero magazine covers.
2012-12-31: Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles.
2012-12-31: Fleeing Google.
2012-12-31: Progressive JPEGs are better in many ways.
2012-12-30: Snopes on exploding non-borosilicate US Pyrex.
2012-12-30: 2012: the year in sexism.
2012-12-30: FluxBuster: detecting fast-flux botnets via large-scale passive DNS traffic analysis.
2012-12-30: Hacking the brains of other people with API design. (Fault injection to enforce error handling.)
2012-12-30: Dangerous shattering occurs because Pyrex no longer implies borosilicate glass.
2012-12-30: Mo Farah was held by US customs on suspicion of being a terrorist.
2012-12-30: FBI and Wall St joined in totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent.
2012-12-30: Cartoons: Triumph of the nerds.
2012-12-30: French McDonald's employees assault man for using an augmented reality device.
2012-12-30: Alan O'Donohoe's successful year promoting computer science in schools.
2012-12-30: If you get a GEIL / Golden Eye / Ben Dover / BDP file-sharing letter, you need to read this.
2012-12-30: Sereal: a binary data serialization format with support for Perl data types.
2012-12-30: Hash-flooding DoS attacks and defences.
2012-12-30: Accurate time with a Raspberry Pi and Venus638FLPx.
2012-12-29: 'Pure, White and Deadly' copyright problems delayed republication in USA.
2012-12-29: Is sugar the next tobacco?
2012-12-29: English Heritage objects to environmental efficiency refit of Trinity College's New Court.
2012-12-29: £1.8bn 'snooper's charter' fails to get Treasury backing.
2012-12-29: U.K. Crown Prosecution Service guidelines for prosecuting people for making jokes on Twitter.
2012-12-29: The Raspberry Pi gang remember Chris Lightfoot.
2012-12-29: IPCC's 1990 climate projections are on target so far.
2012-12-29: NZ government will be exposed to secret international tribunals by the TPP treaty.
2012-12-29: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices. Happy birthday Linus!
2012-12-29: Down with toy apartheid!
2012-12-29: Increasingly partisan US politics means shifts in congress are becoming less likely.
2012-12-29: W3C JavaScript browser crypto API: the anatomy of a bad idea.
2012-12-29: Intellectual monopoly and censorship.
2012-12-29: What really happened to Sony and Universal's 2 billion missing YouTube views.
2012-12-29: How to publish PGP keys in the DNS.
2012-12-28: Google catches music industry gaming their YouTube viewing numbers.
2012-12-28: TCP incast: overloading switches by synchronised requests to many servers.
2012-12-28: sshttp: hide ssh behind same port as web or mail server.
2012-12-28: Inky: cloud-enabled desktop mail app.
2012-12-28: Network maintenance led to cascade failure and extended downtime at GitHub.
2012-12-27: Advice for US entrepreneurs who move to Europe.
2012-12-27: Calling stumps at the ITU WCIT: win, lose, or draw?
2012-12-27: The Tip of the Spear: investigating Scientology 25 years ago.
2012-12-27: Britain from above: help describe historic aerial photographs.
2012-12-26: Robots will take all our jobs / the seven stages of robot replacement.
2012-12-26: Minnesota Vikings briefly considered demolishing Minneapolis's primary Internet hub to extend their stadium.
2012-12-26: Style guide for comparisons in conditional expressions.
2012-12-26: BLAKE2: a smaller faster cryptographic hash function based on the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE.
2012-12-26: sslh: run ssh and https servers on the same port.
2012-12-26: Generating a non-repeating random sequence of integers.
2012-12-26: The Queen first sent an email in 1976.
2012-12-26: Are mass shootings really random events? A look at the US numbers.
2012-12-26: Fun facts about Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (Less CGI than I thought!)
2012-12-26: Antarctic thaw is twice as bad as previously thought.
2012-12-25: Hollywood studios Pirate movies using BitTorrent.
2012-12-25: Duelling jingle bells banjos animated xmas light show. (YouTube)
2012-12-25: In celebration of the birth of Newton we fire rockets in the air. (YouTube x 2)
2012-12-25: 30+ cool ideas for your Raspberry Pi.
2012-12-25: Bullshit Ipsum.
2012-12-25: A little antidote to the Archbishop of Westminster.
2012-12-25: Tasselled wobbegong carpet shark.
2012-12-24: Who needs god? Against the cosmological argument.
2012-12-24: Austerity? Let's call it failure.
2012-12-23: Frost Fair: lovely radio programme featuring history, food, drink, science, music, poetry.
2012-12-23: Save the London Transport Museum.
2012-12-23: European Commission in Holiday season bumper Euromyths special: more lies from the British press.
2012-12-23: Inherently violent: why conservatives love war.
2012-12-22: Ada 2012 language standard approved by ISO.
2012-12-22: Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, and ends up defending financial corruption.
2012-12-22: What does randomness look like?
2012-12-21: Behind closed doors at the ITU WCIT.
2012-12-21: RJ point five double-density ethernet connector.
2012-12-21: Completely different: a review of BIND 10.
2012-12-21: Conclusions drawn from the RIPE reverse DNS outage in June.
2012-12-21: Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency.
2012-12-21: Their new graphic novel is a … terrorist organization?
2012-12-21: Ireland realises the recovery of Iceland proves the joke was on them. (Reminds me of an FT article last year.)
2012-12-21: America plans Guantanamo Bay prisons for US citizens.
2012-12-20: European Commission abandons effort to ratify ACTA.
2012-12-20: 2LD registrations directly under .uk: not such a great idea.
2012-12-20: The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers museum and library.
2012-12-20: Health and Safety Executive applies maximum penalty to the UK Border Agency for nearly blowing up Robin Hood Airport.
2012-12-20: Mainstream economists still don't get it.
2012-12-20: Snow fall: the avalanche at Tunnel Creek. (Fantastic combination of words and moving pictures.)
2012-12-20: H+: high-budget apocalyptic sf on YouTube.
2012-12-20: From NAND to ТЕТЯІЅ: building a modern computer from first principles.
2012-12-20: Academic history journals revolt against open access.
2012-12-20: What law allows Downing St to be closed to traffic?
2012-12-20: Interactive guide to blog typography.
2012-12-19: After saying no at the WCIT: what next for the ITU?
2012-12-19: The Internet only just works.
2012-12-19: ezwebframe: treat the browser as an Erlang process.
2012-12-19: Root nameserver D at the University of Maryland is changing IP address on 3 January 2013.
2012-12-19: Fun manipulating News Corp online polls.
2012-12-19: Whose bug is this anyway?!?
2012-12-19: Irish archbishops speak out against saving the lives of dying pregnant women.
2012-12-19: New restrictions on freedom of information requests could make government more secret.
2012-12-19: Gun ownership is a powerful predictor of someone's political party in the USA.
2012-12-18: Opera TLS Prober survey tool released under Apache 2.0 license.
2012-12-18: The Chronos date / time library for Smalltalk.
2012-12-18: Corrupt police lied about plebgate and deliberately ruined the government chief whip.
2012-12-18: European Union's open source licence to become compatible with GPLv3.
2012-12-18: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap visiting Cambridge in September.
2012-12-18: A visit to Cambridge University Press Museum.
2012-12-18: ITU Phobia: Why WCIT was derailed.
2012-12-18: The NRA's war against gun science.
2012-12-18: NSD 4.0 beta: authoritative name server daemon.
2012-12-18: What really happened at the ITU WCIT?
2012-12-18: The Bill of Rights Commission report: a modest proposal.
2012-12-18: Perl: the first twenty-five years.
2012-12-18: A Roman Christmas.
2012-12-18: The great Bill of Rights commission shambles.
2012-12-18: W3C declares HTML5 complete.
2012-12-18: The good stuff about cycling in Cambridge.
2012-12-18: The UKIP threat is not about Europe.
2012-12-18: Two-for-one: Amazon targeted in replacement order scam.
2012-12-18: Still passing the hash 15 years later: a review of Microsoft's password hash security white paper.
2012-12-18: The false promise of the online education revolution.
2012-12-18: How the Indiana Jones package got to the University of Chicago.
2012-12-18: New developments in deanonymization.
2012-12-18: "Why don't you just…?" Upgrading HTTP to support unordered pipelined responses.
2012-12-18: Problems fixed by Scala.
2012-12-17: China blocks VPNs with Great Firewall.
2012-12-17: Fastbook: a pure HTML5 clone of the Facebook app.
2012-12-17: Thoughtcrime unit to be set up by City of London police.
2012-12-17: Gun control that works: no guns.
2012-12-17: The highlights and low points of the ITU's WCIT.
2012-12-17: Hacker News blog recommendations.
2012-12-16: Tcl the misunderstood.
2012-12-16: Bunnie Huang is building his own laptop.
2012-12-16: 12 letters that didn't make it into the alphabet.
2012-12-16: The quiet Wikideath of BBS history.
2012-12-16: MPs write to Public Accounts Committee to request action on hidden trials and Tamiflu.
2012-12-16: Dear open source project leader: quit being a jerk.
2012-12-16: Bruce Schneier reviews "Against Security: how we go wrong at [...] sites of ambiguous danger" by Harvey Molotch.
2012-12-16: Inside an Amazon warehouse.
2012-12-16: University of Chicago receives a package for Indiana Jones.
2012-12-16: Ole Roemer measured the speed of light in 1676.
2012-12-16: The Aggregate bit twiddling hacks and magic algorithms.
2012-12-15: Gun control in Japan.
2012-12-15: Belle de Jour's history of Anon.
2012-12-15: Per-address spanning tree for scalable Ethernet.
2012-12-15: Switch your databases to flash storage. Now. Or you're doing it wrong.
2012-12-15: A photo history of male affection.
2012-12-15: Unwittingly, the special advisor of the secretary for culture, media, and sport has done the press a favour.
2012-12-14: Mains hum helps to authenticate recordings.
2012-12-14: You're not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
2012-12-14: Marriage law in Britain.
2012-12-14: Milton Friedman's thermostat.
2012-12-14: It will never work in theory: software development research that is relevant in practice.
2012-12-14: History of security economics.
2012-12-14: Authentication is machine learning.
2012-12-14: Map of voting systems around the world.
2012-12-14: Hash collision attacks against btrfs.
2012-12-13: Raspberry Pi and timekeeping with RADclock.
2012-12-13: Connecting Cambridgeshire broadband bulletin December 2012.
2012-12-13: Microsoft white paper: defending against theft of hashed passwords.
2012-12-12: The economic miracle of good television.
2012-12-12: USAF wasted $1bn on failed Oracle ERP logistics project.
2012-12-12: High-frequency traders profit at the expense of ordinary investors.
2012-12-12: How to hack and not get caught.
2012-12-12: It's a Death Metal X-Mas.
2012-12-10: Why the home affairs select committee is calling for an end to the war on drugs.
2012-12-09: Darling: run Darwin binaries on Linux.
2012-12-09: The UK should decriminalise prostitution; it has worked in New Zealand.
2012-12-09: Early papers on computer security.
2012-12-09: Amazing juggling / sleight of hand by Yann Frisch. (YouTube)
2012-12-09: The most dangerous equation.
2012-12-09: Raspberry Pi web server speed test.
2012-12-09: George Boole was killed by homoeopathy.
2012-12-09: All you need is love: how to stop terrorists.
2012-12-09: The in-game economics of Ultima Online.
2012-12-09: Bike, camera, inaction! A barrister tries to prosecute a driver who threatened to kill him.
2012-12-09: GravityLight: lighting for developing countries.
2012-12-08: Red state, blue city: the urban-rural divide is where America splits.
2012-12-08: It's official: austerity economics doesn't work.
2012-12-08: Anak Krakatau volcano eruption, September 2012.
2012-12-08: What a wonder is emulating a terrible monitor.
2012-12-07: The meteoric ascent of the patent troll and the devastating consequences for innovation.
2012-12-07: YouTube death toll: over 300 lives wasted watching Gangnan Style.
2012-12-07: 'Sex for student fees' man unmasked as IT consultant 'with top-level MoD security clearance'.
2012-12-07: Why should Strasbourg decide on British human rights?
2012-12-07: Three lessons learned while teaching a flipped class.
2012-12-07: Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems.
2012-12-07: Accessibility for people with anomalous colour vision.
2012-12-07: A new era for ghc.
2012-12-06: £2 coin and stamps to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
2012-12-06: 25 GPU monster can crack 14 character Windows XP LM passwords in 6 minutes.
2012-12-06: WCIT-12: an opinionated primer and hysteria-debunker.
2012-12-06: America's 50 worst state legislatures.
2012-12-06: What happens when responsible disclosure fails.
2012-12-06: Everyone in the US is under surveillance.
2012-12-06: Comparative language fuzz testing: programming languages vs. fat fingers.
2012-12-05: Bomb sight: where bombs fell in London during WWII.
2012-12-05: NoSQL, CouchDB, and Lotus Notes.
2012-12-05: Is English really a Scandinavian language?
2012-12-05: The USA's history of saying no to the ITRs.
2012-12-05: Top ten budget Cambridge restaurants.
2012-12-05: British civil liberties and the human rights act.
2012-12-05: Bristol University Christian Union keeps existing ban on women speakers.
2012-12-05: "Sender-pays" rule doesn't necessarily increase telecom investment.
2012-12-05: Dog vs sweet potato.
2012-12-05: Counting heads: 1000+ attend Irish anti-abortion rally.
2012-12-05: ITU adopts standard for deep packet inspection traffic snooping.
2012-12-05: The ITU's Dubai debacle: does it matter?
2012-12-04: Flu vaccines don't work very well.
2012-12-04: USA is the only major country not to support treaty covering books for the visually impaired.
2012-12-04: Merck staff mocked patients suffering side effect of osteonecrosis.
2012-12-04: Uniform function call syntax in the D programming language.
2012-12-04: Bristol University's Christian Union bans women from speaking at meetings.
2012-12-04: The TeX family tree: LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt.
2012-12-04: How tall can a Lego tower get?
2012-12-04: The ambition myth: debunking a common excuse for the gender wage gap.
2012-12-04: Why News Corp's "The Daily" iPad newspaper failed.
2012-12-04: Lumi: a new and easy way to find websites that interest you.
2012-12-04: Has HTML5 made us more secure?
2012-12-04: A Nagios DNS plugin written in Golang.
2012-12-04: Barbie construction kit: sexist reasons for less sexist toys.
2012-12-04: What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?
2012-12-04: Dr Peter Wothers, of Cambridge University's Department of Chemistry, will give the Royal Institution's 2012 Christmas lectures.
2012-12-04: The global war on drugs has failed. It is time for a new approach. (JPEG of a letter.)
2012-12-04: WCIT off to a flying start. (ITU has given up on sender pays.)
2012-12-03: Three little ICANN atrocities that make the ITU look good by comparison.
2012-12-03: Why you should be afraid of the UN's plan to regulate the Internet.
2012-12-03: A map of non-existent European countries (and how to create your own).
2012-12-03: Movie studios ask Google to censor legit movie pages on Amazon, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
2012-12-03: BBC cycling documentary condemned as "dangerous juvenile nonsense".
2012-12-03: Bad pharma, failure to disclose research results, and the revoked Viagra patent.
2012-12-03: Two examples of why we don't need the draft Communications Data Bill.
2012-12-03: Facebook's next-generation servers: video interview inside a data centre.
2012-12-03: There's more to porcupine sex than just being careful.
2012-12-03: csync2: a cluster filesystem synchronisation tool.
2012-12-03: Police cited a botched, corrupt investigation as a reason to spy on the nation.
2012-12-03: Immigration: end this foolish block on overseas students.
2012-12-03: Science jokes.
2012-12-03: Securing Nagios remote plugin execution with certificate based authentication.
2012-12-03: Leveson on the 'clear evidence of misreporting on European issues'.
2012-12-03: The real scandal behind Benghazi.
2012-12-02: Don't occupy Wall St, just defund it: move your money to a mutual.
2012-12-02: Royal Institution advent calendar 2012.
2012-12-02: US high speed rail aspirational map.
2012-12-02: Dear journalists: grow up.
2012-12-02: How a business was wrongfully liquidated by the taxman.
2012-12-02: Android performance case study.
2012-12-02: Private Eye's views on the Leveson report.
2012-12-02: Is the UN trying to take over the Internet? (What about settlement fees?)
2012-12-02: Internet connectivity returns to Syria.
2012-12-02: Superstorm Sandy's effect on the global Intenet.
2012-12-02: The Azul pauseless garbage collector.
2012-12-02: iPhone pink highlight from hell.
2012-12-02: The deficit myth.
2012-12-01: Lots of military drones have crashed at civilian airports.
2012-12-01: Joke planning notices in Brighton.
2012-12-01: We've been betrayed by David Cameron over press regulation.
2012-12-01: European blank media copyright levy under attack.
2012-12-01: Tor operator charged for transmitting child porn.
2012-12-01: Scribe: deterministic transparent execution record/replay for Linux.
2012-12-01: Patoline: a modern digital typesetter.
2012-11-30: Getting Plan 9 running on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-30: Chompsky.
2012-11-30: Renesys's observations of Syria's Internet disconnection.
2012-11-30: Cloudflare's observations of Syria's Internet disconnection.
2012-11-30: FreeBSD on Pi news.
2012-11-30: Break up the US telecom cartels.
2012-11-29: An insider's cynical view of the development of OS/2.
2012-11-29: Interactive map of England's green belts.
2012-11-29: B&N Nook ebook downloads break when your credit card expires.
2012-11-29: A Norwegian linguist argues that English is a Scandinavian language.
2012-11-29: 25th anniversary of SWITCH.ch.
2012-11-29: Basic phone service in rural USA is disgracefully flakey.
2012-11-28: Broken path MTU discovery on Amazon EC2.
2012-11-28: State of the Species.
2012-11-28: Why Vint Cerf is wrong about Internet regulation.
2012-11-28: When it comes to security, we're back to feudalism.
2012-11-28: The ITU's leaked playbook: panic and chaos over the WCIT. (The comments are worth reading!)
2012-11-28: You are committing a crime right now (if you are in the USA).
2012-11-28: The American right-wing turn against science.
2012-11-28: How the BBC News website came to be.
2012-11-28: Fens, rivers, and the Ouse washes.
2012-11-28: 40 years after That Was The Week That Was, where is satire on British TV?
2012-11-28: How to tell if a toy is for boys or for girls.
2012-11-28: Rupert Murdoch's journalists at The Sun tried to frame a celebrity for a sex crime that never happened.
2012-11-28: Revenge of the reality-based community: right-wing American intellectual crisis.
2012-11-27: White male geeks hack sexism and racism.
2012-11-27: Bollards of London.
2012-11-27: Mill Road Winter Fair 2012 this Saturday.
2012-11-27: If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?
2012-11-27: AT&T iPad hacker's real crime was embarrassing the wrong people.
2012-11-27: It really is that bad: A powerful speech on North Korea.
2012-11-27: Adverse effects of homeopathy: a systematic review of published case reports and case series.
2012-11-27: Scientists do not deny anthropogenic climate change.
2012-11-27: Guerrilla raids on supply lines, not winter, scuppered Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
2012-11-27: Private evidence from the Home Office on the communications data bill.
2012-11-27: DRM by XORing with "RANDOM_STRING".
2012-11-27: Finite State Machine Designer.
2012-11-27: European unitary patent: latest news.
2012-11-27: Simple sabotage field manual. (1944)
2012-11-27: D3, conceptually: a JavaScript graphing library tutorial.
2012-11-27: The First World War's influence on the English language.
2012-11-27: Inside Google Spanner, the largest database on Earth.
2012-11-27: Supplementary characters for ECMAScript.
2012-11-26: Why we can't process Emoji anymore. (V8 has broken Unicode support.)
2012-11-26: Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words of non-British English.
2012-11-26: Julian Assange's book "Cypherpunks" fails to understand something fundamental about the Internet.
2012-11-26: Unispeed mass surveillance equipment.
2012-11-26: Inside the Welsh Raspberry Pi factory.
2012-11-26: Modules for C, to replace trad header files.
2012-11-26: IBM granted patent for removing leading and trailing space characters.
2012-11-26: An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians.
2012-11-26: Talus, a 16th century robot.
2012-11-25: How to avoid problem people.
2012-11-25: 35mm film is dead. Will classic movies ever look the same again?
2012-11-25: The Recode project: an active archive of computer art.
2012-11-24: Time-scale subway map of Boston.
2012-11-24: Bounded storage model for crypto adversaries.
2012-11-23: Modern roads were originally made for bikes.
2012-11-23: Hash pile-ups: using collisions to identify unknown hash functions.
2012-11-23: Turkey patents.
2012-11-23: Denial-of-service via MurmurHash collisions.
2012-11-23: Why your distributed social network idea will not work.
2012-11-23: Authenticated denial of existence in the DNS.
2012-11-23: A new global depression.
2012-11-23: Plaintext password offenders.
2012-11-23: Energy from a single orange… (and some galvanised nails and an LED)
2012-11-22: Why cellphones went dead after Hurricane Sandy: regulatory failure.
2012-11-22: Why Anonymous’s claims about election-rigging can’t be ignored.
2012-11-22: Array size overflows and operator new[] in g++.
2012-11-22: Haskell hacker Simon Marlow is moving from Microsoft Research to Facebook.
2012-11-22: Vestas Sailrocket.
2012-11-22: New speed record of nearly 60 kts in a sailing boat.
2012-11-22: No safety in numbers for London's cyclists, owing to poor traffic policing and bad cycle infrastructure.
2012-11-22: On managerialist ideology.
2012-11-22: Do not send bare arrays as JSON responses to GET requests.
2012-11-22: John Carmack on treating time as a part of your input event model.
2012-11-22: Switched reluctance motors do not need expensive rare-earth magnets.
2012-11-22: Trotify.
2012-11-22: Slate: a hacker's window manager for Macs.
2012-11-21: Sad news about Mark Crispin.
2012-11-21: Anonymous, Karl Rove, and a failed 2012 election fix?
2012-11-21: HP's claims of accounting fraud could be cover for bad acquisitions.
2012-11-21: David Howarth explains that indirect taxation is the best way to promote growth.
2012-11-21: Prince William Photos revealed Ministry of Defence passwords.
2012-11-21: Weird goings on at Autonomy.
2012-11-21: How the Autonomy accounting scandal worked.
2012-11-21: Tim O'Reilly on social media marketing.
2012-11-21: Non-event feedback loops.
2012-11-20: Why is the FCC planning a massive giveaway to Rupert Murdoch?
2012-11-20: The cryptographic doom principle, and ssh plaintext recovery.
2012-11-20: Airport security is killing us.
2012-11-20: When REST isn't good enough.
2012-11-20: Europarliament scolds Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal for killing WikiLeaks donations; initiates regulation of payment processors.
2012-11-20: "Value", an irksome euphemism.
2012-11-20: Malware uses Google Docs as a C&C proxy.
2012-11-20: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service.
2012-11-20: Princeton IT security: What to do if ...
2012-11-20: Inventors, patents, and inventive activities in the English brewing industry, 1634-1850.
2012-11-20: The Web engineer's online toolbox.
2012-11-20: How to destroy the Earth.
2012-11-20: Israel / Gaza ceasefires almost all end when Israel kills a Palestinian.
2012-11-20: World's oldest original working digital computer goes on display at Bletchley.
2012-11-20: US sides with Iran and N. Korea in record UN vote over the death penalty.
2012-11-20: All pharmaceutical research should be made open access.
2012-11-20: Join Rackspace in the fight against patent trolls.
2012-11-20: Inside Tumblr.
2012-11-20: Elixir: a functional meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM.
2012-11-20: Golang is PHP for the backend. (But not as shitty.)
2012-11-20: Everyday sexual assault.
2012-11-19: Chocolate truffle art photography.
2012-11-19: How to peer review scientfic work.
2012-11-19: Rails client IP address spoofing vulnerabilities and protection.
2012-11-19: How to criticize Israel without being antisemitic.
2012-11-19: Forthcoming book on conservative and libertarian skepticism about copyright.
2012-11-19: In America, A Barrage Of Thunderingly Dull Headlines.
2012-11-19: Don Jimmy Gambino OBE: Savile the mob boss?
2012-11-19: Press coverage of the launch of the National Health Action party.
2012-11-18: Internet censorship in Russia sounds just like the UK government's plans.
2012-11-18: 1740 tons of sludge: the New River Tunnel inspection.
2012-11-18: In praise of the cliché.
2012-11-18: The state of the art in computing is terrible.
2012-11-18: An omniscient debugger.
2012-11-18: Debug mode is the only mode: on reactive programming and time-travelling debuggers.
2012-11-18: Midwife of the year turns down award sponsored by formula producers.
2012-11-18: Instant coffee Britain.
2012-11-18: FBI investigation of Petraeus and Broadwell reveals bureau's comprehensive access to electronic communications.
2012-11-18: Gardai lobbying against war on drugs in Ireland.
2012-11-18: What do we do about untrustworthy certificate authorities?
2012-11-18: Republicans withdraw report on copyright reform.
2012-11-18: Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying.
2012-11-18: High performance web servers in Haskell.
2012-11-18: The debate over whether to set a minimum price on alcohol in the UK.
2012-11-18: The gay vote was crucial in Obama's victory.
2012-11-18: December missing in date picker on Android 4.2.
2012-11-18: Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned telecoms.
2012-11-18: 50 years of James Bond: the movie. (YouTube)
2012-11-17: 1972 Cambridge: celebrating the admission of female undergraduates.
2012-11-17: Savita Halappanavar's death has transformed Irish abortion debate.
2012-11-17: House Republicans propose reforms to copyright law.
2012-11-17: Seeing sexism in academia: moving up the ranks opens the eyes.
2012-11-17: Spoilt Ballots in Cambridgeshire's PCC vote.
2012-11-17: Cloud outage reports.
2012-11-17: Microsoft has failed.
2012-11-17: Russia wants ITU to take over IANA.
2012-11-16: Inside Obama's tech team.
2012-11-16: Simpler and faster Lempel-Ziv factorization.
2012-11-16: How Democrats and Republicans wage war.
2012-11-16: Turnout was zero at some polling stations in yesterday's PCC election.
2012-11-16: GitLaw in Germany: German federal laws and regulations in Markdown on GitHub.
2012-11-16: Cloud storage pricing history.
2012-11-16: It is easy to do wide-area jamming of LTE networks.
2012-11-16: Cambridgeshire PCC election turnout.
2012-11-16: The Bond villain's lair: Skyfall's abandoned island really exists.
2012-11-15: A single severed cable cut contact between Russian mission control and Its satellites.
2012-11-15: Privacy-aware message exchanges for geographically routed human movement networks.
2012-11-15: "Twisted light" idea for terabit networking sparks heated debate.
2012-11-15: Articles about Savita who died in Ireland after being denied an abortion.
2012-11-15: If you're human IT middleware, it's time to find a new job.
2012-11-15: Steven Levy on the patent problem.
2012-11-15: Flex Mex. (YouTube)
2012-11-14: How far will U.S. regulators bend to AT&T and Verizon?
2012-11-14: Orca failed, but so did Obama's 2008 equivalent.
2012-11-14: Slo-mo eggsplosions. (YouTube)
2012-11-14: The real Petraeus scandal: unrestrained state surveillance.
2012-11-14: A longitudinal study of the effects of being denied an abortion.
2012-11-14: Japanese anti-download law reduces music sales.
2012-11-14: Weak password encryption on Huawei products.
2012-11-14: FLAME malware uses sneakernet to exfiltrate files from isolated computers.
2012-11-14: All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken.
2012-11-13: A TLS performance case study.
2012-11-13: If a committee of MPs can tear these companies to shreds so easily, why is HMRC is letting them get away with it?
2012-11-13: "Is This You?" - a possible future featuring lifelogging, privacy and scandal. (YouTube)
2012-11-13: Revolt grows in coalition over Home Office plan to cut immigration.
2012-11-13: Lowering tax rates for the rich has no effect on economic growth or job creation.
2012-11-13: Investigative journalism must live on despite the Newsnight crisis.
2012-11-13: Apple are selling a (3rd party) Android device.
2012-11-13: How Lanyrd moved from MySQL on AWS to PostgreSQL on Softlayer. (Brave!)
2012-11-13: Is the ITU really threatening the Internet? (Why address imagined threats not real ones?)
2012-11-13: Arrested for poppy burning? The new totalitarianism.
2012-11-13: IBM patent lawyer argues the patent system is not broken.
2012-11-13: PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API.
2012-11-13: When poll is better than interrupt for block IO completion.
2012-11-13: An open letter on patents, 12 years later.
2012-11-13: Infinite Jukebox: like Infinite Gangnam Style but for any song.
2012-11-13: Operating system implications of fast, cheap, non-volatile memory.
2012-11-13: When men get too emotional to have a rational argument.
2012-11-13: Meet the Texas lawyer suing hundreds of companies for using TLS.
2012-11-13: Does Facebook hate all women, or just feminists?
2012-11-12: How Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen made "We're Going on a Bear Hunt".
2012-11-12: Surveying Earth's interior with atomic clocks.
2012-11-12: Rock Paper Scissors programming competition.
2012-11-12: Lord McAlpine scandal shows Leveson 'must find a way of reining in Twitter and Facebook', idiot MPs say.
2012-11-12: Napster, Udacity and the academy: what massive open online courses mean for undergraduate teaching.
2012-11-12: Fat is back: Rediscover the delights of lard, dripping and suet.
2012-11-12: When it comes to DRM, Amazon is a bottom feeding hell beast.
2012-11-12: NSA publishes top-secret 1995 report that missed the future of supercomputing.
2012-11-12: Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum est - Recited by Christopher Hitchens. (YouTube)
2012-11-12: What are the killer applications for dependent types in general purpose programming languages?
2012-11-11: The Columbia Journalism Review on what is happening at the BBC.
2012-11-11: New "Flood Router26″ IPv6 RA attack takes down Mac OS and Windows.
2012-11-11: The Leveson Inquiry and the BBC.
2012-11-11: Smuggling USB sticks: routing around censorship with sneakernet.
2012-11-11: The mainstream media derailed the opportunity to address child abuse.
2012-11-11: Unifying programming and mathematics: the dependent type revolution.
2012-11-11: President Obama and the breastfed baby.
2012-11-11: Visitor tracking with HTTP 301 permanent redirects.
2012-11-11: The amount of crap Microsoft users have to put up with is incredible.
2012-11-11: TELETEXT: the early years.
2012-11-10: A hitchhiker's tour of the BEAM Erlang abstract machine.
2012-11-10: Precisely why the Daily Mail is irredeemable shit.
2012-11-10: The stock markets will blow up again.
2012-11-10: British legal curiosities: fact or fable?
2012-11-10: Romney's election day IT screwup.
2012-11-09: "Secure password managers" and "military-grade encryption" on smartphones: oh, really?
2012-11-09: Seven ways to handle concurrency in distributed systems.
2012-11-09: musl libc: a new lightweight standard library for Linux.
2012-11-09: Don’t trust a password management system you design yourself!
2012-11-09: Blocklists of suspected malicious IPs and URLs.
2012-11-09: DNS amplification from the point of view of a hosting provider.
2012-11-08: An overview of e-postage.
2012-11-08: Flip all the pronouns in Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker.
2012-11-08: What can data scientists learn from DevOps?
2012-11-08: Memory-efficient zone data in BIND 10.
2012-11-08: When a journal repeatedly addresses an academic using "Miss".
2012-11-08: Judge Leo Sorokin is tired of copyright troll Marvin Cable’s lies, so denies ex-parte discovery.
2012-11-08: Why there isn't a British Nate Silver.
2012-11-08: Run Archimedes Elite on the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-08: Counties in the southern US that voted for Obama lie along the Cretaceous era shore line.
2012-11-08: Was the green man, that pagan spirit of nature, in fact England’s secret symbol of resistance to Norman oppression?
2012-11-08: Stack Overflow's guide to forms based website authentication.
2012-11-08: Why is Rick Santorum using a picture of 4Chan founder Moot on his website?
2012-11-08: NetBSD kernel compiled to JavaScript and run in a browser.
2012-11-07: The economics of making music.
2012-11-07: Hurricane Sandy: global impact on Internet routing.
2012-11-07: AMD dismisses almost all its Linux kernel developers.
2012-11-07: Lessons for the data centre after Hurricane Sandy.
2012-11-07: Some things the British press would prefer you did not know.
2012-11-07: Why do hospital generators keep failing?
2012-11-07: NYU Hospital’s backup power undone by key part in flooded basement.
2012-11-07: Who pays "road tax"?
2012-11-07: Survey reveals ash disease in six further counties.
2012-11-07: GNU alternate domain system: a decentralized name service based on Rivest's SDSI.
2012-11-07: Banks replace highly-paid traders with software.
2012-11-07: What to look for on site when choosing a co-lo facility.
2012-11-07: Nate Silver, the audacity of maths and the innumeracy of political commentary.
2012-11-07: Puerto Rico votes to become 51st state.
2012-11-07: A physical machine that duplicates sounds from the TR-808 drum machine.
2012-11-07: Microsoft to turn off Windows Live / MSN Messenger in favour of Skype.
2012-11-06: Notes on Certificate Transparency for IETF85.
2012-11-06: The global e-voting disaster: Why the US and the world shouldn't try to make elections too high tech.
2012-11-06: Slot machines vs voting machines.
2012-11-06: Bad disk latency spikes on Linux.
2012-11-06: Voting machine altering votes. (YouTube)
2012-11-06: Superoptimizers are back in vogue.
2012-11-06: More on the suspicious last-minute patch to Ohio vote tabulation machines.
2012-11-06: Anti-independence parties in UK and Spain plot to expel independent Scotland from the EU.
2012-11-06: Sharp Suits: a creative catharsis.
2012-11-06: The Economist talks to Ben Goldacre about the broken pharmaceutical industry.
2012-11-06: Content design for mobile devices. (Please don't treat them so specially.)
2012-11-06: Criticism of and alternatives to the slider UI widget.
2012-11-06: A clock that knits a scarf.
2012-11-06: A dynamic language is a restricted static language affording less not more expressiveness.
2012-11-06: Ag: a code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
2012-11-06: FBI campaigns against telcos who uphold restrictions on surveillance.
2012-11-06: Labour's return to the right.
2012-11-06: Mission impossible: iPad Mini browser detection.
2012-11-06: A TLS threat model.
2012-11-05: No one should have to wait 7 hours to vote. (7 minutes is a bit too long)
2012-11-05: Pentagon unit pushed email voting for troops despite security concerns.
2012-11-05: The badgers guide to logical fallacies.
2012-11-05: Gillette Venus says domestic violence can be caused by not shaving your legs.
2012-11-05: Remote root vulnerability in Sophos anti-virus.
2012-11-05: Why Americans can't vote online on Tuesday.
2012-11-05: Uncertified "experimental" software installed on vote tabulation systems in 39 OH counties days before election.
2012-11-05: Most New York data centres back on mains power.
2012-11-05: Arithmetic encoding using 32 bit fixed-point windows.
2012-11-05: Cycling in New York after Hurricane Sandy.
2012-11-05: "PSD is not my favourite file format."
2012-11-05: "Address Sanitizer" compile-time memory checker to be included in gcc-4.8
2012-11-05: Comparing audio quality of AAC and mp3 at various rates.
2012-11-05: Defending against SQL injection by detecting query errors in the database.
2012-11-05: Ash dieback: UK government might be sued over failure to act.
2012-11-05: Interstellar hydrogen becomes intense radiation to a highly relativistic spacecraft.
2012-11-05: End of life care through the eyes of a doctor and a patient.
2012-11-05: Internet Voting in the U.S.
2012-11-04: NLNOG RING: remote shell exchange for network operators.
2012-11-04: "Denial of service" high frequency trading algorithm spams massive volumes of quotes.
2012-11-04: Over-aggressive deduplication led to ATM fraud detection loophole at CitiBank.
2012-11-04: Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012.
2012-11-04: Book publishers have long been playing into Amazon's hands.
2012-11-04: British have invaded all but 22 countries.
2012-11-04: A nice profile of the Raspberry Pi.
2012-11-04: No Microsoft products on Kaspersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list.
2012-11-04: US Democrats have a massive intellectual advantage in targeting and persuading voters.
2012-11-04: Some preliminary thoughts on NJ's emergency email voting scheme.
2012-11-04: Why do sign language interpreters look so animated?
2012-11-04: American right-wing politics is full of lies; its fund-raising aims to deceive the feeble-minded.
2012-11-03: Russian cat circus. (YouTube)
2012-11-03: A slower speed of light: relativistic gaming.
2012-11-03: Animated factorization diagrams.
2012-11-03: How trees work. (YouTube)
2012-11-03: Noam Chomsky criticises the Google approach to Artificial Intelligence.
2012-11-02: Foxy Nate Silver and why old-media hedgehogs could soon be old news.
2012-11-02: Tim Gowers on the sixth form mathematics curriculum.
2012-11-02: Gay people are a greater fire risk than straight people, according to Hackney council.
2012-11-02: Cambridge is not a centre of excellence in cyber security research, according to GCHQ.
2012-11-02: Lorry blind spots and invisible cyclists. (YouTube)
2012-11-02: What an RAF pilot can teach us about being safe on the road.
2012-11-01: The busting of LulzSec: lessons in OpSec.
2012-11-01: Tracking casual homophobia on Twitter.
2012-11-01: Infinite Gangnam Style. (actually quite clever)
2012-11-01: Ur: a functional programming language supporting a powerful kind of metaprogramming based on row types.
2012-11-01: MLPolyR: a small programming language based on row polymorphism.
2012-11-01: Having an anti-harassment policy helps tech conference organisers deal with unprofessional sexualized swag.
2012-11-01: On the feasibility of completely wireless data centres.
2012-11-01: Parliamentary IP group publishes report favouring rights holders and against measured approach of IPO.
2012-10-31: Why we can't solve big problems.
2012-10-31: OpenDNSSEC key rollover failure for .nl on 28 October.
2012-10-31: Computer-controlled dedical equipment is riddled with malware.
2012-10-31: Precision NTP on a Raspberry Pi.
2012-10-31: How a pro-life activist lost faith in the movement.
2012-10-31: Summary of the Amazon Web Services outage on 22 October 2012.
2012-10-31: Counting IPv6 support in DNS resolvers.
2012-10-31: 99.5% of Internet peering is agreed with a handshake.
2012-10-31: New York subway may take weeks to recover from flooding.
2012-10-31: Disabled rights activist complains to South Wales police following midnight questioning about comments on Facebook.
2012-10-31: Paul Vixie on the length of time taken to develop and deploy DNSSEC.
2012-10-31: Unilateral antidotes to DNS poisoning.
2012-10-31: Speaking out against Nominet's proposed release of second level .UK domains.
2012-10-31: Impact of Hurricane Sandy on the Internet.
2012-10-31: Domain sharding is bad for mobile performance.
2012-10-31: Failing over Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange for Sandy.
2012-10-30: Client-side API mashups with cross-origin resource sharing.
2012-10-30: Director of FEMA during Katrina criticizes Obama for responding to Sandy too quickly.
2012-10-30: Zappos' user agreement failed in court and leaving them legally naked.
2012-10-30: Report on the DigiNotar X.509 CA failure with technical details of hack.
2012-10-30: US Supreme Court worries about 'parade of horribles' if the first sale doctrine does not apply to imports.
2012-10-30: Hurricane Sandy pictures.
2012-10-30: Semantic patching with Coccinelle.
2012-10-30: Spineless hedgehogs!
2012-10-30: How global warming helped transform Sandy from a hurricane into a Frankenstorm.
2012-10-30: What networking needs to learn from Steve Jobs.
2012-10-30: How to batten a hatch.
2012-10-30: Deep inside a DNS amplification DDoS attack.
2012-10-30: six: compile new ECMAscript v6 features to current JavaScript.
2012-10-30: Don't kill math: comments on Bret Victor and "inventing on principle".
2012-10-30: FreeBSD Raspberry Pi support merged into main repository.
2012-10-29: Bugged phone deepens controversy over L'Aquila verdict.
2012-10-29: James Bond 007 deathmatch. (YouTube)
2012-10-29: A profile of PGN.
2012-10-29: Goatse Mail. (!!!!!)
2012-10-29: When capitalists cared.
2012-10-29: The price of inequality.
2012-10-29: What happens when a town makes its public transit free.
2012-10-29: OCSP stapling: how to make TLS 30% faster.
2012-10-29: Zero knowledge type checker.
2012-10-29: Notes from the wrong future: the end of crypto.
2012-10-29: London Heathrow approach time-lapse.
2012-10-29: The poetry of function names.
2012-10-29: A police officer's opinion of airport security.
2012-10-29: More MTU and packet corruption stories.
2012-10-29: The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't: packet corruption debugging.
2012-10-29: Singularity Chess.
2012-10-28: Police move against campaigners for "criminal acts against DWP".
2012-10-27: Attack of the week: cross-VM timing attacks.
2012-10-27: Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: how not to design authentication.
2012-10-27: OpenFlow at Google.
2012-10-26: Avoid Hinchingbrooke: the first privatised NHS hospital is failing.
2012-10-26: American eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket, and vice versa.
2012-10-26: Sorting a million 8 digit numbers in 1MiB explained.
2012-10-26: Online security, pseudonymity, and personal vs private information.
2012-10-26: The great railway caper: big data in 1955.
2012-10-26: A taxonomy of arse.
2012-10-26: Paleontologists uncover the first feathered dinosaur fossils in the Americas.
2012-10-25: QR life.
2012-10-25: GPS software attacks: breaking in through the radio interface.
2012-10-25: Facebook does not want you to know that you can buy information about a million of their users for $5.
2012-10-25: Magit: an Emacs mode for git.
2012-10-25: How to make a security geek feel very old: factorising 512 bit RSA keys.
2012-10-25: The Swinnerton-Dyer report on academic computing in Cambridge University. (1993)
2012-10-25: UK government belatedly takes action to limit spread of disease killing ash trees.
2012-10-25: Review of IT infrastructure and support at Cambridge University.
2012-10-24: Electronic Arts Commodore 64 Fat Track copy protection loader.
2012-10-24: Closed research means people die.
2012-10-24: The slow death of public higher education in the USA.
2012-10-24: DNSSEC and X.509 certificates.
2012-10-24: Abuse IX: intensive collaboration between Dutch ISPs and SIDN to tackle botnets.
2012-10-24: A critical analysis of Dropbox software security.
2012-10-24: The island where people forget to die.
2012-10-24: Application security of core banking systems: a reality check.
2012-10-24: The unexpected effects of switching the pronouns assigned to fictional genders in an sf novel.
2012-10-24: Many sites have short crackable DKIM keys.
2012-10-24: Raspberry Pi VideoCore driver source code released under BSD licence.
2012-10-24: Microsoft Exchange private appointments are not private.
2012-10-24: Observer Food Monthly awards 2012: lots of Cambridge places in the runners up.
2012-10-24: Facebook social graph data on sale: $5 for a million names, email addresses, and profile URLs.
2012-10-24: Getting DNSSEC deployed: costs and benefits.
2012-10-23: All about ebook formats, and how to convert between them and strip DRM.
2012-10-23: GITLAB: self hosted git management based on gitolite and Ruby on Rails.
2012-10-23: Re-counting DNSSEC.
2012-10-23: Senior officers resign from Italy's serious risks commission following L'Aquila verdict.
2012-10-23: Why the L'Aquila case is NOT about risk communication.
2012-10-23: Why Plan28 wants to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer.
2012-10-23: Open Access: What is it and what does "Open" mean?
2012-10-23: NTFS privilege elevation case study.
2012-10-23: jQuery is missing the point of promises.
2012-10-22: SILT: a memory-efficient, high-performance key-value store.
2012-10-22: The Italian government should have prepared for and recovered from the L'Aquila quake better.
2012-10-22: More details of the Amazon Kindle lockout story.
2012-10-22: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.
2012-10-22: Everything you wanted to know about certificate validation with OpenSSL.
2012-10-22: Whitehall investigation over 'FoI avoidance' in Nominet emails.
2012-10-22: Scientists at fault in L'Aquila. (Nature, 2011)
2012-10-22: Duality for Haskellers.
2012-10-22: 80% of UK homes have Internet access.
2012-10-22: Back from another globetrotting adventure, Indiana Jones discovers his bid for tenure was denied.
2012-10-22: The proposed libel reform does not provide a good enough public interest defence.
2012-10-22: Fifteen painted pianos for you to play on the streets of Cambridge.
2012-10-22: The big question mark over making petrol from air.
2012-10-22: ICANN changes rules so Verisign will be able to sell .com domains.
2012-10-22: Amazon may close your account and wipe your Kindle for no reason.
2012-10-22: Dr Ben Goldacre vs the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
2012-10-22: The most dangerous code: failure to validate X.509 certificates in non-browser software.
2012-10-21: Local state is poison.
2012-10-21: NIST crypto algorithm selectors may not have you in mind.
2012-10-21: Sorting 1 million 8 digit numbers in just 1MB of RAM.
2012-10-21: Rowan Atkinson's speech in support of free speech and the Reform Section 5 campaign.
2012-10-21: The WCIT ETNO proposal: unintended consequences of making the sending party pay.
2012-10-21: On meritocracy.
2012-10-21: Tests / specs: a fundamental duality of software engineering.
2012-10-21: Using cross-VM side channels to extract private keys.
2012-10-21: Google Voice lost my number and made me pay to get it back.
2012-10-21: Insanely long proofs, incompleteness, and speedup theorems.
2012-10-21: There are 250,000 patents affecting smartphones: one in six active patents.
2012-10-21: 99 hacks to make your life easier.
2012-10-21: Diocesan coats of arms.
2012-10-20: Chosen-plaintext attacks and web app crypto blob confusion.
2012-10-20: Hyperinflation is the result of a total failure of the political system.
2012-10-20: The CSRG's early BSD SCCS history converted to SVN.
2012-10-20: A collection of papers about fuzz testing.
2012-10-20: How to fix various bash annoyances.
2012-10-20: Weak memory ordering in practice on a multicore ARM.
2012-10-19: Minnesota bans free online education.
2012-10-19: Ex-government official says CIA is prosecuting whistleblower John Kiriakou to protect one of its torturers.
2012-10-19: PayPal bug bounty: a lesson in not being a fuckup.
2012-10-19: The Perceus provisioning system.
2012-10-19: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days.
2012-10-19: PSY vs Ghostbusters: Gangnam Busters.
2012-10-19: 44TB of SSD in 1U.
2012-10-19: Why to use the query parameter “utf8=✓”.
2012-10-19: Air Fuel Synthesis turns carbon dioxide and water vapour into petrol.
2012-10-19: Numbers don't lie: patent trolls are a plague.
2012-10-19: DNSSEC migration of a high-value domain while maintaining inner peace.
2012-10-19: DNSSEC and UDP fragmentation: a prickly combination.
2012-10-19: Steam browser URL protocol insecurity: when local bugs go remote.
2012-10-19: "We must be allowed to insult each other."
2012-10-19: decyber: take the fear out of cybersecurity.
2012-10-19: How cork is made.
2012-10-19: A systematic look at Amazon EC2 I/O performance.
2012-10-18: local-openid: geeky single user ephemeral OpenID provider.
2012-10-18: The git revolution is here.
2012-10-18: IPv6 stats world map.
2012-10-18: Comparing TCP and UDP response times of DNS root name servers.
2012-10-18: Wired on Google's datacentres.
2012-10-17: 21st IOCCC winners.
2012-10-17: The gayness of Batman.
2012-10-17: RedHat DNSSEC integration.
2012-10-17: Next steps in accelerating DNSSEC deployment.
2012-10-17: Google DNS, OpenDNS and CDN performance.
2012-10-17: How Google's hot aisles work.
2012-10-17: Registry failover and DNSSEC. (Author has not read my article on the subject!)
2012-10-17: DANE TLSA test sites.
2012-10-17: Roy Arends' DNSSEC operator change with minimal co-operation from the loser.
2012-10-17: The battlefronts in the war for control of the Internet.
2012-10-17: How did software get so reliable without provable correctness?
2012-10-17: wrk: an HTTP benchmarking tool.
2012-10-17: Pictures inside Google's data centres.
2012-10-17: Fastresolve: bulk DNS lookups for web logs.
2012-10-17: Fast functional lists, hash-lists, deques and variable length arrays.
2012-10-17: Time-lapse video of space shuttle Endeavour's trek across L.A.
2012-10-16: Leveraged buyouts and the Bain Drain.
2012-10-16: SpaceX planning new rocket bigger than Saturn V.
2012-10-16: Functional Programming in C++
2012-10-16: How I learned to stop worrying and love identity assurance. (UK government ID scheme.)
2012-10-16: SSD failure / return rates per manufacturer.
2012-10-16: Peeking inside LuaJIT.
2012-10-16: The crypto dream.
2012-10-16: Was Reddit troll Violentacrez thinking?
2012-10-16: Effect of GitHub on Python contributions.
2012-10-16: "Nature" on badger culling.
2012-10-16: A 15 year perspective on why telcos keep getting hacked.
2012-10-16: Digital River loses law suit for doing what was in the patent years before it was filed.
2012-10-16: Masterpieces from the PHP manual.
2012-10-16: Fine Structure: a story about science.
2012-10-16: Happy Ada Lovelace Day – a celebration of women science writers.
2012-10-16: Cambridgeshire county council leader is a climate change denier who thinks tories are not bourgeois.
2012-10-16: Sainsbury Laboratory Noir.
2012-10-16: Google Earth Fractals.
2012-10-16: Google Drive duplicates files if you try to do multi-way sync.
2012-10-16: Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech.
2012-10-16: South Carolina Supreme Court says it is OK to read other people's email without consent.
2012-10-15: Van Jacobson remembers the creation of the TCP slow start algorithm. (YouTube)
2012-10-15: Interesting auditory pitch / rhythm illusion.
2012-10-15: Cuban missile crisis: the other, secret one.
2012-10-15: The scrap value of a hacked PC.
2012-10-15: Why science and engineering toys aren't for girls (and arts and crafts aren't for boys?).
2012-10-15: Why Cambridge's Sainsbury Laboratory deserved to win the Stirling architecture prize.
2012-10-15: UK to opt out of EU police co-operation.
2012-10-15: Patents on software: an economics Nobel laureate's view.
2012-10-15: Cabinet Office paper on randomised trials of government policies.
2012-10-15: Drug laws and evidence-based policy: it's time to start doing experiments on the British people.
2012-10-15: UK drugs policy commission.
2012-10-15: Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments' mobile chip business.
2012-10-15: Decriminalise drug use, says independent expert report.
2012-10-15: Journalistic faux objectivity. (Another piece about he said / she said)
2012-10-15: Passive online rogue rccess point detection using sequential hypothesis testing with TCP ACK pairs.
2012-10-15: Spectroscopy of DNS update traffic.
2012-10-14: Everyonazis! A survey of Internet Nazi portmanteaus.
2012-10-13: What's really so bad about bubble sort.
2012-10-13: GET /browser.exe
2012-10-13: Lots of fantastic eyes.
2012-10-13: Swordfish have heated eyes.
2012-10-13: Google homepage size over time.
2012-10-12: Dark social: sharing on the net but off the web.
2012-10-12: How to easily beat blog comment spam.
2012-10-12: Chocolate consumption, cognitive function, and Nobel laureates.
2012-10-12: A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life.
2012-10-12: Can we build a more efficient airplane? Not really, says physics.
2012-10-12: A case study of AAAA filtering.
2012-10-12: Total cost of ownership of carrier-grade NAT.
2012-10-12: GSK have promised to share all trial data. Should we trust them?
2012-10-11: Interesting discussion of user-extensible IPv6 networks and the prospect of NATv6.
2012-10-11: De DNS "ANY" plaag.
2012-10-11: Time zones in Google maps.
2012-10-11: DNS response rate limiting for NSD.
2012-10-11: Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory.
2012-10-11: Rivertrail: data parallel JavaScript.
2012-10-11: Posner on patents.
2012-10-11: How to tell if the universe is simulated on a discrete lattice.
2012-10-11: Apple and Google really spent more on patents than R&D? Yes, but...
2012-10-11: Cycling rates in Cambridge.
2012-10-11: Google.ie and Yahoo.ie diverted after breach at Irish DNS registrar.
2012-10-11: Aligot: cryptographic function identification in obfuscated programs.
2012-10-10: Cognitive dissonance and the Monty Hall problem.
2012-10-10: The surprising behaviour of networks of networks.
2012-10-10: SmoothLife: cellular automata generalized to a continuous domain
2012-10-10: NSQ: bitly's realtime message queue system.
2012-10-10: Attacking telephone interactive voice response systems via their DTMF detectors.
2012-10-10: US telcos sell your call and location records to spammers.
2012-10-09: Verisign applied for patent describing broken DNSSEC operator change process.
2012-10-09: Gay marriage Nazis and the disgraceful bigot Lord Carey.
2012-10-09: More prosecutions for telling bad jokes online.
2012-10-09: Copyright trolls' evidence to be tested in a bellwether trial.
2012-10-09: Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
2012-10-09: The mouse faces extinction.
2012-10-09: Twitter vs patent trolls.
2012-10-08: Luv: Lua + libuv + ØMQ.
2012-10-08: LittleBlackBox: private SSL + SSH keys extracted from embedded devices.
2012-10-08: On binding UDP sockets to ANY addresses.
2012-10-08: The dawn of the stupid network.
2012-10-08: An earlier description of how to securely change DNSSEC hosting providers.
2012-10-08: Verisign tries to patent the obvious way to securely change DNSSEC hosting providers.
2012-10-08: Apple and Google spend more on patents than on R&D.
2012-10-08: Pictures of the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour.
2012-10-07: Ben Goldacre Q&A on Bad Pharma.
2012-10-07: No, you are not entitled to your opinion.
2012-10-07: DEFRA has a superinjunction covering the identities of those planning the stupid badger cull.
2012-10-07: The kissing sailor: the selective blindness of rape culture.
2012-10-07: The complete "How To Write A Thriller", by Ian Fleming.
2012-10-07: UHF TACSAT/SATCOM satellite downlinks receivable in the US.
2012-10-07: Brazilians like using US military comms satellites: open relays for ham radio.
2012-10-07: You can't have it all: Princetonian letters on work-life balance.
2012-10-07: The best interface is no interface.
2012-10-06: A beautiful version of Euclid's Elements published in 1847.
2012-10-06: LINK ATM locator.
2012-10-06: The surprising demographics of UK opinion on abortion.
2012-10-06: More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system.
2012-10-06: There really is an advert containing a smartphone inside 'EW Magazine'.
2012-10-05: The mystery of the blue honey.
2012-10-05: OED wants help finding early uses of certain phrases. (Usenet features prominently!)
2012-10-05: Validns: zone file checker with DNSSEC support.
2012-10-05: DANE patrol: RFC 6698 TLSA verification for Firefox.
2012-10-04: TLS X.509 certificate verification is still often disabled.
2012-10-04: The fastest man-made object ever: a nuclear-powered manhole cover.
2012-10-04: "Strong" and "weak" concurrent hardware memory models.
2012-10-04: Some AMD Opteron chips have buggy implementations of CMPXCHG.
2012-10-04: Patent troll TQP claims a monopoly over TLS + RC4.
2012-10-04: This is rape culture.
2012-10-04: What would happen to the oceans if the Earth stopped rotating.
2012-10-04: TCP Fast Open: expediting web services with Linux 3.6.
2012-10-04: Why is SHA-3 fast in hardware?
2012-10-04: Gangnam style, 1975 :-)
2012-10-04: The concept of quality of service in the Internet.
2012-10-03: America is not the most entrepreneurial country.
2012-10-03: Simon Singh threatened with legal action for criticising dangerous quack magazine.
2012-10-03: Judge Posner asks, do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively?
2012-10-02: Summary of the Keccak sponge function family.
2012-10-02: Practical padding oracle attacks on RSA.
2012-10-02: Benchmarks of SHA-3 finalists.
2012-10-02: A fast new SipHash implementation in Haskell.
2012-10-02: Keccak is the winner of the SHA-3 cryptographic hash competition.
2012-10-02: Make your own Marmite: "dangerous and hard to control"
2012-10-02: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) approved as Proposed Standard RFC.
2012-10-02: Hackers sneak bugs into open source code, so they can later sell a zero-day exploit.
2012-10-02: On the obligation of companies to maximise profits.
2012-10-02: Symlink and hard link restrictions in Linux 3.6.
2012-10-02: Elsevier responds to Gowers boycott by allowing free access to old maths papers.
2012-10-02: Don Knuth and Doug McIlroy on literate programming.
2012-10-02: Labour will make cuts to welfare budget if it wins 2015 election.
2012-10-01: London could overtake Paris as the gastronomic capital of Europe.
2012-10-01: 3D printer manufacturer refuses to support WikiWeapon project.
2012-10-01: USB flash storage responsible for over 70% of US army computer security breaches.
2012-10-01: The great disconnect: an American conservative view of their liberal compatriots.
2012-10-01: TCP Small Queues to fight bufferbloat in Linux 3.6.
2012-10-01: The tale of 1,001 DSL modems: millions of hacked routers in Brazil.
2012-10-01: To encourage cycling, helmets should not be mandatory.
2012-10-01: Server Porn.
2012-10-01: Venues with a capacity under 200 no longer need a licence for live music.
2012-10-01: Is Leo Traynor's troll story a lie?
2012-10-01: How many cod are really left in the North Sea?
2012-10-01: How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system.
2012-10-01: Nominet consults on the first step to abolishing hierarchical names under the .uk TLD.
2012-10-01: Videos from the Dennis Ritchie memorial symposium.
2012-10-01: Only IE users have been exposed to active attacks against unpatched vulnerabilities in the last 20 months.
2012-09-30: How to make clear ice cubes.
2012-09-30: FORTH to C compiler, with debugging and IDE support, in a blog article.
2012-09-30: 2012 Makey awards.
2012-09-30: American Airlines should no longer be flying across the Atlantic.
2012-09-30: PSY London Style.
2012-09-30: Behold the unclefts.
2012-09-30: Uncleftish beholding: atomic theory explained using only Germanic words.
2012-09-30: NHS + IT = FUBAR.
2012-09-30: LLJS: the bastard child of JavaScript and C.
2012-09-30: British Antarctic Survey to receive the Royal Greenwich Observatory treatment.
2012-09-29: Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP.
2012-09-29: The case for abolishing patents (yes, all of them).
2012-09-29: HTML5 security, cross-domain Math.random() prediction and Facebook JavaScript API.
2012-09-29: Automated fraud checking calls do not improve credit card security.
2012-09-29: GIFCTRL
2012-09-28: RAR files can contain bytecode for a simple x86-like virtual machine.
2012-09-28: On the (provable) security of TLS, part 2.
2012-09-28: What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?
2012-09-28: Learnable programming.
2012-09-28: Flex Projector: create custom world map projections.
2012-09-28: Tracking stealth planes using passive radar.
2012-09-28: Windows 8 does not work very well on high-pixel-density displays.
2012-09-28: Tuning Linux TCP/IP for scalability.
2012-09-28: Adobe code signing infrastructure was compromised and used to authenticate malware.
2012-09-28: Man jailed for accidentally sexting everyone in his contacts list.
2012-09-28: Visualizing language knowledge in Europe.
2012-09-27: First beta release of Mozilla Persona: web login without passwords.
2012-09-27: Enumerating regular languages, countably infinite sets, and Cantor diagonalization.
2012-09-27: Alice and Bob can go on holiday! Describing crypto with Sita and Rama.
2012-09-27: Flexible and robust key rollover in DNSSEC.
2012-09-27: How to build a windmill.
2012-09-27: Inside the CleanIT conflict.
2012-09-27: Rust is the language of the future for systems programming.
2012-09-27: OStatus: like Twitter, but open.
2012-09-27: Plebgate and the new snobbery.
2012-09-27: Enhanced WWVB long-wave time broadcast format.
2012-09-27: NoPassword: log into a website with just an email address.
2012-09-27: Ejecta: fast JavaScript canvas and audio for iOS, without the rest of the browser.
2012-09-27: In defence of skeuomorphism.
2012-09-27: Apple Safari .mobi viewport insanity.
2012-09-26: London's surnames mapped.
2012-09-26: How long does it take to earn the price of a beer?
2012-09-26: Honu: macros for algebraic notation through enforestation.
2012-09-26: Cautionary tales about copyright licence fee collection societies.
2012-09-26: Coming next November: comet ISON, 15 times brighter than the moon.
2012-09-26: Wind turbines do in fact reduce carbon emissions, despite needing backup when the weather is calm.
2012-09-26: US State Department uses illegal impossible-to-complete application forms to prevent people getting passports.
2012-09-26: The CRIME attack: TLS compression leaks enough information to recover cookies.
2012-09-26: Scottish Labour plans to end free universal benefits.
2012-09-26: IPv4 address transfer markets are forming where we least expected.
2012-09-26: Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip.
2012-09-26: EU Clean IT project plans for large-scale surveillance of all communications.
2012-09-25: How wood rots inside secret bunkers.
2012-09-25: The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access publishing.
2012-09-25: IEEE web log data breach.
2012-09-25: Complementary validation: proofs, programs, prose.
2012-09-25: Everything you need to know about hash length extension attacks.
2012-09-25: DENIC uses RIPE Atlas to analyse DNS mangling by the Great Firewall of China.
2012-09-25: The smallest minimum ice extent ever, not just in the satellite record, but probably the last million years.
2012-09-25: Meeting a troll.
2012-09-25: The joys and hazards of multi-process browser security.
2012-09-25: mypy is an experimental Python variant with static duck typing and compiled to native code.
2012-09-25: MakerBot does not think carbon-copy cloning is acceptable.
2012-09-25: Google Spanner: NoSQL is out and NewSQL is in.
2012-09-25: The uk.ac.cam.cl problem.
2012-09-24: Crowdsourced patent-busting with Stack Exchange.
2012-09-24: To cite "shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre" adds nothing to a debate about free speech.
2012-09-24: DNS dampening.
2012-09-24: Counting DNSSEC.
2012-09-24: How to stop hospitals from killing us.
2012-09-23: sweet.js: hygienic macros for JavaScript.
2012-09-23: DNSSEC for tinydns.
2012-09-23: Dear Apple, it's not me, it's you.
2012-09-23: The drugs don't work.
2012-09-22: What business is Wall Street in.
2012-09-22: Patent trolls and video streaming.
2012-09-21: Elsevier's impending "catastrophe" and the cost of scholarly publishing.
2012-09-21: iPhone 5 teardown.
2012-09-21: DNSSEC resolver test.
2012-09-21: Measuring occurence of DNSSEC validation.
2012-09-21: The case for a truly liberal party.
2012-09-20: Amazing Week 2012: blog about something great that we take for granted, between 15 and 21 October.
2012-09-20: Evolution of E. coli in the lab.
2012-09-20: OpenStreetMap apps for iOS.
2012-09-20: GitHub humans.txt
2012-09-20: The myth of the European Court of Human Rights’ “War on Britain”.
2012-09-20: scrypt-jane: a flexible implementation of a memory-hard password hasher.
2012-09-19: Our Arup building, from which we are soon to be evicted.
2012-09-19: Study reveals overweight teens have fewer arms than healthy-weight ones.
2012-09-19: Rackspace's response to patent troll.
2012-09-19: Patents on content-addressed storage and hash deduplication.
2012-09-19: Patent troll sues Rackspace for hosting Github, and other users of content-addressible storage.
2012-09-18: Complexity theory petting zoo: an overview of the different complexity classes.
2012-09-18: Google gets patent on pseudonyms.
2012-09-18: Hitler: Downfall, Gangnam Style. (YouTube)
2012-09-18: Better eating, thanks to fermentation.
2012-09-18: PCRE performance project: speeding it up with a JIT compiler.
2012-09-18: How to launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and how to stop one.
2012-09-18: The software patent solution has been right here all along?
2012-09-18: CoffeeScript: less typing, less readability?
2012-09-18: $45 tablets are coming.
2012-09-17: US Copyright Act 1976 explicitly says disruptive innovation should be blocked.
2012-09-17: How they got 25% women speakers for JSConf EU 2012.
2012-09-17: Fenwick trees: rapidly find cumulative frequency sums.
2012-09-17: IPv6 wireless mesh network for controlling multi-colour LED lightbulbs.
2012-09-17: 0x5f3759df and the fast reciprocal square root.
2012-09-17: Everything is broken and nobody is upset.
2012-09-17: Casting negative floating point numbers to unsigned integers is undefined behaviour in C.
2012-09-16: An iPhone is worth $8700 of assistive technology.
2012-09-16: Privacy International prospectus.
2012-09-16: Programmable Martian watch.
2012-09-16: The iPhone 5's A6 SoC uses a custom Apple-designed ARM core.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>