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2013-12-31: About Python 3 (lack of) adoption.
2013-12-31: Where will we live? The British housing crisis.
2013-12-30: Xplain: explaining X11 for the rest of us.
2013-12-30: Hacking MicroSD cards.
2013-12-29: On geek culture.
2013-12-29: Nine lies about fat that ruined the western world's health.
2013-12-29: Scientists tell us their favourite jokes: 'An electron and a positron walked into a bar…'
2013-12-29: Viral sharing and truth in journalism.
2013-12-28: Quantities: type-safe units of measurement for Idris.
2013-12-28: C# for systems programming.
2013-12-28: Analysis of SSD reliability during power outages.
2013-12-28: Imperative reasoning is hard.
2013-12-28: MailChimp CEO on email's age defying resilience.
2013-12-27: Replicant: distributed state machines made easy.
2013-12-27: 10 of the best open source hardware projects of 2013.
2013-12-26: Joose: an advanced metaclass system for JavaScript.
2013-12-26: Advanced design patterns in Python.
2013-12-26: Cheques are in decline, but UK gov't says “We want cheques to have a crucial role in the ongoing success of the UK.”
2013-12-26: Albrecht Dürer's Roman letters.
2013-12-25: Implementing Elligator for Curve25519.
2013-12-25: So, you want to crypto...
2013-12-24: Why is Git HTTPS not working on GitHub?
2013-12-24: Strong TLS security on nginx (and Apache and lighttpd).
2013-12-24: Gitlab and Active Directory LDAP authentication.
2013-12-24: Mobile ISP image recompression.
2013-12-24: PNG can be a lossy format.
2013-12-24: 10 best and most memorable maker projects of 2013.
2013-12-24: Cameron's internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan.
2013-12-23: The mathematical hacker.
2013-12-23: Adam Rosenberg's programming style.
2013-12-23: Perl 6 unary sort.
2013-12-23: A local augmented root zone with DNSSEC.
2013-12-23: Copyright is not stealing, says the Supreme Court of the US.
2013-12-23: The beauty of mathematics. (Vimeo)
2013-12-23: Take charge of your batteries!
2013-12-22: Railgun: fast strstr() implementation.
2013-12-22: Why marketers fear the female geek.
2013-12-22: UPS's holiday shipping planner: they call him Mr Peak.
2013-12-22: Former Top NSA official: "we are now in a police state".
2013-12-22: Brand contamination: when men's products get girl cooties.
2013-12-22: Algorithmic defamation: the case of the shameless autocomplete.
2013-12-21: Growing up unvaccinated.
2013-12-21: How to search on encrypted data.
2013-12-21: Who in Whitehall approved torture after 9/11?
2013-12-21: New openssh key format and bcrypt pbkdf.
2013-12-20: NSA/RSA DUAL_EC_DRBG arrangement was known in September.
2013-12-20: Sierpiński calendar.
2013-12-20: NSA paid RSA $10 million to promote backdoored DUAL_EC_DRBG.
2013-12-20: Critics say NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed.
2013-12-20: Canada lifts all restrictions on prostitution, because they increase harm.
2013-12-20: Requesting removal of NSA employee from chair of IETF crypto forum research group.
2013-12-20: UPS My Choice has amazingly creepy security questions and bait-and-switch pricing.
2013-12-20: On the matter of strlcpy/strlcat acceptance by industry.
2013-12-20: 0x10 years of protecting privacy with GnuPG.
2013-12-20: When is a 'cluster' a real cluster? Cyclist deaths in London.
2013-12-20: 'Free trade' and the death of democracy.
2013-12-20: UK porn block fiasco goes mainstream.
2013-12-20: 100 years of monopoly phone service.
2013-12-20: The inventor of Karaoke.
2013-12-20: "I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed."
2013-12-20: Flaw in OpenSSL Dual EC DRBG (no not that one).
2013-12-20: Winkel Tripel warping trouble.
2013-12-19: Nutrient: an indexed key-value store based on crit-bit tries with a cdb-like API.
2013-12-19: Golang 1.3+ compiler overhaul: The Go compiler today is written in C. It is time to move to Go.
2013-12-19: Bitcoin, magical thinking, and political ideology.
2013-12-19: Why WordPress bloggers were blocked by TalkTalk, and what it tells us about Internet filtering.
2013-12-18: MacBook webcams can spy on their users without warning.
2013-12-18: One Weird Old Trick to Undermine the Patriarchy.
2013-12-18: RSA key extraction via low-bandwidth acoustic cryptanalysis.
2013-12-18: The magazine that featured in War Games.
2013-12-18: Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire.
2013-12-18: We are allowed to hate Silicon Valley.
2013-12-18: Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText.
2013-12-17: UK Internet archive will not be accessible via the Internet, because copyright.
2013-12-17: It's the Macroeconomy, Stupid. Neoliberal policy targets the structure not the level of wealth.
2013-12-17: We need to talk about TED.
2013-12-17: git-integration: easily merge several work-in-progress topic branches onto a base branch.
2013-12-16: Recommendations for secure use of TLS and DTLS.
2013-12-16: Fast blitting on the 6809.
2013-12-15: So you think you have a power law - well, isn't that special?
2013-12-15: It's not harming anyone, so why is Brussels trying to remove my e-cigarette?
2013-12-15: On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git.
2013-12-15: The web needs view object containment.
2013-12-15: The mission to decentralize the Internet.
2013-12-15: The basics of taking good photos.
2013-12-14: Bugs in the wetware? The psychology of computer insecurity.
2013-12-13: Bicycle Helmets and the law: a perfect teaching case for epidemiology.
2013-12-13: A vintage cargo bike collection in Italy.
2013-12-13: The drop in teenage pregnancies is a great political success story.
2013-12-13: Cap'n Proto: promise pipelining RPC protocol.
2013-12-12: Simple Binary Encoding: a new ultra-fast marshalling API in C++, Java and .NET.
2013-12-12: lazysorted: a partially and lazily sorted list data structure for Python.
2013-12-12: Better and better keyboard prototypes.
2013-12-12: Running a web browser on a Macintosh Plus.
2013-12-11: The birth of stderr.
2013-12-11: Obscure C++ features.
2013-12-10: Doom at 20: John Carmack's hellspawn changed gaming forever.
2013-12-10: NSA ♥ Facebook.
2013-12-10: Samantha West: the telemarketer robot who swears she's not a robot.
2013-12-10: Doom: 20 years of a gaming legend.
2013-12-10: Maria Leijerstam's South Pole trike.
2013-12-09: Why are Upworthy headlines suddenly everywhere?
2013-12-09: Exile: disassembly of the most technically advanced game released for the BBC Micro.
2013-12-08: There are now two Americas. The country is a horror show.
2013-12-08: talloc: The Tutorial.
2013-12-07: Still waiting for the stupid network.
2013-12-07: Ten lazy assumptions that are part of the mainstream political consensus.
2013-12-07: WHAT THE FLUCK! The point at which journalism fails and modern power begins.
2013-12-06: Telepathwords: preventing weak passwords by reading your mind.
2013-12-06: Clocks: a collection of experiments in generative art.
2013-12-06: reptyr: change the pty of a running process on Linux.
2013-12-06: Multiprocess Firefox.
2013-12-05: Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald: the people who leaked the NSA's secrets.
2013-12-05: King James programming: a Markov chain trained on the bible and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
2013-12-05: Gmail download and escape hatch.
2013-12-04: Dispute over infinity divides mathematics.
2013-12-03: Greenwald: the journalist who hacked the old system.
2013-12-03: The SSD endurance experiment: testing data retention at 300TB.
2013-12-03: Project Oberon 2013: the design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer.
2013-12-03: How does the NSA break SSL?
2013-12-03: A young person's guide to BCPL programming on the Raspberry Pi.
2013-12-03: NSA werewolf.
2013-12-03: Applied crypto hardening.
2013-12-02: The return of the open mail relays.
2013-12-02: A linguist explains the rules of summoning Benedict Cumberbatch.
2013-12-02: Headlines from a mathematically literate world.
2013-12-01: Most important innovations are not patented.
2013-12-01: Bedsheet Problem: how many times can you fold it in half?
2013-12-01: CC0 vs CC-BY.
2013-12-01: TPM chip protecting SSH keys, properly.
2013-12-01: Comedian gets the last laugh over FCUK logo row.
2013-11-30: Reverse-engineering Vermeer's secret technique.
2013-11-30: The Jolla phone: first impressions.
2013-11-30: Myth: Apollo astronauts didn't float away because they had heavy boots.
2013-11-30: San Francisco's DC power grid.
2013-11-30: OK to clone software by testing it and reading the manual, rules UK court.
2013-11-29: Cheaper IPv6-only servers.
2013-11-28: Configure BIND to validate answers to recursive queries in zones for which it is authoritative.
2013-11-28: Root zone KSK rollover. (slides)
2013-11-28: SSAC advisory on DNSSEC key rollover in the root zone. (slides)
2013-11-28: SSAC advisory on DNSSEC key rollover in the root zone.
2013-11-28: Computer science course fills seats at Harvard.
2013-11-27: Algorave is the future of dance music (if you're a nerd).
2013-11-27: Linux memory management and linear big data scans.
2013-11-27: Trends in cybersecurity.
2013-11-27: Pre-paid SIM cards for travellers.
2013-11-27: Comcast now has the world's largest IPv6 deployment.
2013-11-27: Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later.
2013-11-27: The Google+ real names policy has had an amazing effect on the quality of YouTube comments.
2013-11-27: Tradeoffs in cybersecurity.
2013-11-26: FFTS: fastest fourier transform in the south.
2013-11-26: NTP amplification attacks.
2013-11-26: Mail supremacy: The newspaper that rules Britain.
2013-11-26: Jury decides that Newegg infringes the bogus TQP crypto patent.
2013-11-26: Creative Commons licences version 4.0.
2013-11-25: The dot, our simplest punctuation mark, has become a sign of anger.
2013-11-25: Healthcare.gov and the gulf between planning and reality.
2013-11-25: Unresolvable host names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 web site list.
2013-11-25: A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system.
2013-11-25: Whitfield Diffie takes the stand in the Newegg crypto patent troll trial.
2013-11-25: NDK quartz crystal manufacturing plant exploded, killing someone 200 metres away.
2013-11-25: ICANN kills Scott Richter's spam-friendly registrar Dynamic Dolphin.
2013-11-24: Northwestern Lightboard, for recording lecture graphics without lots of post-production.
2013-11-24: Boolean satisfiability: from theoretical hardness to practical success.
2013-11-23: Teach debugging by playing the sabotage game.
2013-11-23: Fixing Walmart's node.js memory leak.
2013-11-23: Breaking OS X signed kernel extensions with a NOP.
2013-11-23: The long-gone tax that everyone still thinks they're paying.
2013-11-23: Geeks for monarchy: the rise of the neoreactionaries.
2013-11-23: 555 footstool.
2013-11-23: Circuit stickers.
2013-11-23: Information Is Beautiful awards 2013 winners.
2013-11-22: Fixing fsync().
2013-11-22: Louis Essen on the history of leap seconds. (1981)
2013-11-21: Microsoft are selling a Google mug.
2013-11-21: To kill a centrifuge: a technical analysis of what Stuxnet's creators tried to achieve.
2013-11-21: Leonardo da Vinci's viola organista cello/piano cross has at last been built 500 years after it was designed.
2013-11-21: Mathematicians team up on twin primes conjecture.
2013-11-20: Software patent reform just died thanks to lobbying from IBM and Microsoft.
2013-11-20: Halting password puzzles: hard-to-break encryption from human-memorable keys.
2013-11-20: Nominet will go ahead and flatten the .uk DNS namespace.
2013-11-20: Cycling and trucks the Dutch way.
2013-11-19: Rosetta stone for Unix.
2013-11-19: JSTOR denies access to five people every second.
2013-11-19: A new diagnostic test to distinguish benign and life-threatening prostate cancers. #movember
2013-11-19: Zalgol: an esoteric programming language.
2013-11-19: Visual cryptography.
2013-11-18: Analysis of the https X.509 certificate ecosystem.
2013-11-18: The forgotten giant arrows that guided the mail across America.
2013-11-17: What mathematical structure models arithmetic with physical units?
2013-11-17: An efficient non-moving garbage collector for functional languages.
2013-11-17: ‘Because' has become a preposition, because grammar.
2013-11-17: Why is it so difficult and expensive to make your own clothes?
2013-11-17: What has gone wrong with RNGs in practice.
2013-11-17: The dsfjdssdfsd list provides a venue for discussion of randomness in IETF protocols.
2013-11-17: Acid Retirement Home: 20 years of cultural stagnation.
2013-11-16: The two dualities of computation: negative and fractional types.
2013-11-16: Lorries, cyclists, and delivery restrictions in Paris.
2013-11-16: A 2x speedup with one line of code: prefetching Python objects during array traversal.
2013-11-15: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?
2013-11-15: Afnic promotes .fr DNSSEC.
2013-11-15: Robust de-anonymization of large datasets: how to break anonymity of the Netflix prize dataset.
2013-11-15: What happens when a GPRS terminal attaches to the network.
2013-11-15: Detecting stealthy distributed ssh brute force attackers.
2013-11-15: Should quadrotors look like this?
2013-11-15: How a journalist faced his fears and learned to be good at maths.
2013-11-15: With Great Power. (A superhero short story.)
2013-11-14: CrunchBase's contradictory Creative Commons copyright case.
2013-11-14: Terra: a low-level system programming language embedded in Lua.
2013-11-14: dataset: databases for lazy Python programmers.
2013-11-14: The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone.
2013-11-14: Police try to recuit a student to spy on political activity at Cambridge University.
2013-11-14: Integer undefined behaviour in open source crypto libraries.
2013-11-13: Snowden and the future.
2013-11-13: Vi Hart on Google+ YouTube integration.
2013-11-13: The secret life of SIM cards.
2013-11-13: 40% more of what salary balances happiness against a long commute?
2013-11-13: Bechdel gets testy.
2013-11-12: Our privacy problem is a democracy problem in disguise.
2013-11-11: Web latency benchmark.
2013-11-11: Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility: p should be 0.005 or less.
2013-11-11: The Dr Who theme as Ron Grainer may have intended.
2013-11-11: The big data brain drain: science is in trouble.
2013-11-11: A person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone who walks.
2013-11-10: Why do Brits accept surveillance?
2013-11-10: A short history of software development methods.
2013-11-10: Psychedelics and mental health: a population study.
2013-11-10: Why the Cornell paper on selfish Bitcoin mining is important.
2013-11-10: The Pyret programming language.
2013-11-09: Evaluation of New Zealand's bicycle helmet law: compulsory helmets increase risk of injury by 20-30%.
2013-11-09: Rotate the world with JavaScript D3.
2013-11-08: Google shell style guide.
2013-11-07: Geography of top-level domains.
2013-11-07: Bitcoin isn't so broken after all.
2013-11-07: Bootstrapping the adoption of Internet security protocols.
2013-11-06: Who's the biggest spy? NSA, GCHQ, and the "special relationship".
2013-11-06: Mozilla anticookie tool plans crumbling.
2013-11-06: The best and worst countries to be an expatriate.
2013-11-06: Part of Internet Archive building badly burned in early morning fire.
2013-11-06: Statistics done wrong: the woefully complete guide.
2013-11-05: DiffPDF: compare two PDF files, textually or visually.
2013-11-05: Undefined behaviour: what happened to my code?
2013-11-04: Bitcoin is fundamentally broken.
2013-11-04: 25th anniversary of the Morris worm.
2013-11-03: Best visual illusion of the year contest, 2005-present.
2013-11-03: Browsing history: A heritage site is being set up in the UCLA room where the first ARPANET message originated.
2013-11-03: The highly unusual company behind Sriracha, the world's coolest hot sauce.
2013-11-02: An interview with the old man of floating point.
2013-11-02: Unii, a student-only social network, signs up 100,000+ users in six months in the UK.
2013-11-02: Google's plans for a 1-million-square-foot London office at King's Cross.
2013-11-02: Ditch Microsoft Office or take a pay cut: Which would you choose?
2013-11-02: A devil's dictionary of programming.
2013-11-02: Neo900: open phone project.
2013-11-01: Patent war goes nuclear: Rockstar sues Google with ex-Nortel patents.
2013-11-01: The 2008 Liberty vs UK case: an ECHR ruling on Snowden's disclosures.
2013-11-01: Bitcoin as protocol.
2013-10-30: Announcing the Dark Mail Alliance, founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit.
2013-10-30: Lavabit and Silent Circle join forces to make all email surveillance-proof.
2013-10-30: Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences.
2013-10-30: Why are "Ghost," "Ghastly," and "Ghoul" Spelled with "gh"?
2013-10-29: The status of Moore's Law: it's complicated.
2013-10-29: Seagate comedic open storage.
2013-10-28: Diebold charged with bribery and falsifying docs in a worldwide pattern of criminal conduct.
2013-10-28: C in CAP != C in ACID.
2013-10-28: Phishing with Linkedin's Intro.
2013-10-27: The keys to the keydom: RSA keys with common factors.
2013-10-27: The war on hackers.
2013-10-27: The e-cigarette industry, waiting to exhale.
2013-10-27: Making 128MB SIMMs from 64MB SIMMs.
2013-10-27: Data Cube: a relational aggregation operator generalizing group-by, cross-tab, and sub-total.
2013-10-27: How to write New Age Jargon.
2013-10-27: Mac OS 10.9: infinity times your spam.
2013-10-26: I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling.
2013-10-26: The Netherlands: a whole country that has transformed itself for cycling.
2013-10-26: Schrödinger's token: parsing with multiple-typed tokens.
2013-10-26: What's new in Unicode 7.0.
2013-10-26: What it would take for self-driving cars to catch on.
2013-10-26: Lua: Good, different, and ugly parts.
2013-10-26: The Slash programming language.
2013-10-26: Delayed printf for real-time logging.
2013-10-25: LinkedIn Intro? No thanks. My email security is too important.
2013-10-25: A quick audit of CryptoCat's elliptic curve crypto.
2013-10-25: LinkedIn 'Intro'duces email man-in-the-middle attack on its users.
2013-10-25: Reinventing storage: ethernet über alles!
2013-10-25: Optimizing TLS record size and buffering latency.
2013-10-25: A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography.
2013-10-25: NASD: network-attached secure disks.
2013-10-25: The Seagate Kinetic open storage vision.
2013-10-24: OS X Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users.
2013-10-23: Security fixes in OS X Mavericks v10.9.
2013-10-23: Trace and replay retrospective debugging?
2013-10-23: Curl: a note to users of OS X Mavericks 10.9.
2013-10-23: Color blindness and palette choice.
2013-10-23: Edit the HTML of sites that insist on binary gendered titles.
2013-10-23: Gerrit code review: Change-IDs.
2013-10-22: Regenerator: Let's get serious about ES6 generator functions.
2013-10-22: Tubewhacking.
2013-10-22: The decline of Wikipedia: as more people rely on it, fewer people create it.
2013-10-22: Raspberry Pi GPS NTP without soldering.
2013-10-22: Maps of average cloud coverage.
2013-10-22: How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes.
2013-10-21: The roots of the US government shutdown.
2013-10-21: Why civil resistance works: the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict.
2013-10-21: TP-Link TL-WR703N: an extremely small networked computer.
2013-10-21: Is math a gift? Beliefs that put females at risk.
2013-10-21: Everything you always wanted to know about synchronization but were afraid to ask.
2013-10-21: Six decades of the USA's most popular names for girls, state-by-state.
2013-10-21: The invention of switch mode power supplies.
2013-10-20: 13 nutrition lies that made the world sick and fat.
2013-10-20: A few Utah panoramas.
2013-10-20: Anti-racism campaigner and immigration caseworker sent 'go home' text message by Home Office.
2013-10-20: Graph of Radiohead songs by genre.
2013-10-20: Dianne Feinstein's bragging about NSA surveillance program may lead to I t being declared unconstitutional.
2013-10-20: Every position of Rubik's Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less.
2013-10-20: Sweden becomes first western nation to reject low-fat dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition.
2013-10-20: Showing you this map of aggregated bullfrog occurrences would be illegal.
2013-10-20: Engineering the LOUDS succinct tree representation.
2013-10-20: Analysis of Apple iMessage privacy.
2013-10-20: 4 reasons clang is becoming my go-to compiler.
2013-10-20: The ocean is broken.
2013-10-20: Six weeks to provision a VM?!?
2013-10-17: Recovering a corrupted git packfile.
2013-10-17: Your brain on beer vs coffee.
2013-10-16: Is Bitcoin an NSA honeypot?
2013-10-15: Bollocks cycling infrastructure.
2013-10-15: The Cambridge CAP capability-based computer.
2013-10-15: The BCS computer conservation society.
2013-10-15: Stained glass sundials.
2013-10-15: Land unknown to humans before the European age of discovery.
2013-10-14: GCHQ hid its network spying capability from parliamentary snoopers charter scrutiny.
2013-10-14: A diary of four wars: where war reporting goes wrong.
2013-10-14: How to design a city for women.
2013-10-14: A review of the Avegant Virtual Retinal Display.
2013-10-14: Time to leave leap seconds behind?
2013-10-14: A cylindrical cut-glass sundial.
2013-10-14: SafeCurves: choosing safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography.
2013-10-14: The trouble with timestamps in distributed databases.
2013-10-14: Proofs as Cryptography: a new interpretation of Curry-Howard for software certificates.
2013-10-13: Unemployment is not a sign of bad character.
2013-10-13: Cambridge bike theft conviction rate barely above 1%.
2013-10-13: Property in London is like a global reserve currency.
2013-10-13: Labour will be more right wing than the Tories.
2013-10-13: Reverse engineering a D-Link backdoor.
2013-10-13: The US fears back-doored hardware because they are building it too.
2013-10-12: Why email is hard: internationalization.
2013-10-12: The awful body-shaming future of 3D printing.
2013-10-12: Microsoft Word must die.
2013-10-12: The registrars who obeyed City of London police demands to disable web sites likely violated ICANN policy.
2013-10-11: The London Ringways: a post-war plan for a dense network of motorways through and around the capital.
2013-10-11: European ruling spells trouble for unmoderated online comment.
2013-10-10: evldns: libevent + ldns.
2013-10-10: "What happened to me after I read dinosaur erotica."
2013-10-10: The 9 kinds of physics seminar.
2013-10-09: Chelsea Manning: I'm no "pacifist".
2013-10-09: 802.11ac 'gigabit Wi-Fi' starts to show its potential and limits.
2013-10-09: Name That Blue.
2013-10-09: Commodore Pet killer poke.
2013-10-09: Why and how Ben Goldacre wrote Bad Pharma.
2013-10-09: The Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed by budget cuts, not fire.
2013-10-09: The Financial Times switches to a digital-first publishing model.
2013-10-09: Constructing the Sierpinsky triangle.
2013-10-09: The bogus Starbucks duffin trademark is provoking cake rage.
2013-10-08: Shards: How the high-wizard Mordaine invented NoSQL.
2013-10-08: An informal anti-virus comparison.
2013-10-08: Optimizing Linux memory management for low-latency / high-throughput databases.
2013-10-08: Lossless decompression and the generation of random samples.
2013-10-08: Intellectual Ventures buys patent donated by AmEx for the public good... and starts suing.
2013-10-08: How the FBI forced Lavabit to shut down.
2013-10-08: BioLite fan-assisted wood stove and generator with USB power out.
2013-10-08: GADT meet subtyping.
2013-10-07: Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: meet the "newest right".
2013-10-07: A profile of Alan Rusbridger and the Guardian in the New Yorker.
2013-10-07: Grandma's cooking from around the world.
2013-10-07: How (not) to trigger a layout in WebKit.
2013-10-07: Preventing web page layout thrashing.
2013-10-06: nedtries.
2013-10-06: ZeroMQ: helping OpenDNS block malicious domains in real time.
2013-10-06: The coming world of automated mass anti-terror false positives.
2013-10-06: Dogs are people too.
2013-10-06: Luje: a pure Lua JVM.
2013-10-06: The shutdown prophet: maybe Washington was destined to go dark all along.
2013-10-06: A scientific guide to saying "no": How to avoid temptation and distraction.
2013-10-06: A federal budget crisis months in the planning.
2013-10-06: Coffee experiments.
2013-10-05: Maven is broken by design.
2013-10-05: 1m2 space-saving staircase from EeStairs.
2013-10-04: And then Steve said, ‘let there be an iPhone'.
2013-10-04: Patent troll Lodsys settles for nothing to avoid trial.
2013-10-04: "RFCs were just a temporary expedient intended to last just a few months."
2013-10-04: Guillermo del Toro's Simpsons couch gag is the best thing ever. (video)
2013-10-03: extprot: compact, efficient, extensible, binary, cross-language, long-term serialization protocols.
2013-10-03: Visualizing suffix primes.
2013-10-03: Silk Road, Lavabit, and the limits of crypto.
2013-10-02: Edward Snowden's email provider defied FBI demands to turn over private crypto keys.
2013-10-02: The hallmark of a truly effective internal security system would be the maximum possible disclosure.
2013-10-02: Cockblocked by redistribution: a pick-up artist fails in Denmark.
2013-10-02: Bathys Hawaii Cesium 133 atomic wristwatch.
2013-10-02: Kardashev scale of levels of civilization. Type III is about 4E37 W.
2013-10-02: The Death Star used 1E38 joules to destroy Alderaan.
2013-10-01: Write build rules in Lua with tup.
2013-10-01: What will the completed Sagrada Família look like? (YouTube)
2013-10-01: Efficient custom allocators in C.
2013-10-01: Food verbiage that should be banned.
2013-09-30: Why whistleblowers should be listened to.
2013-09-30: Responsive web design tips from BBC News.
2013-09-30: Steal this research paper! (You already paid for it.) Michael Eisen and open access publishing.
2013-09-29: Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage.
2013-09-29: ARM64 and Objective C.
2013-09-29: Topological rope trick.
2013-09-29: Knight v Snail in medieval manuscripts.
2013-09-29: Why mathematicians make great comedy writers.
2013-09-29: US nuclear commander suspended for gambling problems.
2013-09-28: Internet centralization is not a conspiracy.
2013-09-27: Edward Snowden has started a global debate. So why the silence in Britain?
2013-09-27: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera.
2013-09-25: Preparing an IPv6 addressing plan.
2013-09-25: The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss's little-known book of nudes.
2013-09-25: Make a Minecraft map of Britain with 230 lines of Python.
2013-09-25: Norway: tobacco harm reduction in the real world.
2013-09-25: Zab vs. Paxos: distributed consensus in ZooKeeper.
2013-09-25: Normal vs fat-tailed distributions.
2013-09-25: How does Dutch street design work for pedestrians?
2013-09-24: Availability in globally distributed storage systems: Google's failure stats.
2013-09-24: Name server selection of DNS caching resolvers. (slides)
2013-09-24: Authority selection in DNS caching resolvers.
2013-09-24: iodine: IPv4 over DNS.
2013-09-24: US DHS DNS security reference architecture.
2013-09-24: Could you pass a Dutch cycling exam?
2013-09-24: Stateless TCP for higher DNS capacity on FreeBSD.
2013-09-24: LPEG tutorial.
2013-09-24: A brief introduction to LPEG.
2013-09-24: Job offer: user admin database manager for the University of Cambridge Computing Service.
2013-09-24: A Minecraft map of Great Britain from the Ordnance Survey.
2013-09-24: Hacking around with Reading Borough Council's urban traffic management and real-time passenger information infrastructure.
2013-09-23: The myth of the 10x programmer.
2013-09-22: IRIX alert sounds for iOS.
2013-09-22: The 500 highest bridges.
2013-09-22: Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID.
2013-09-22: Weird machines in ELF: the RTLD is Turing complete.
2013-09-22: Percussive Maintenance. (Vimeo)
2013-09-22: Hardened stateless session cookies.
2013-09-22: Carpet designer threatens cosplayers with legal action.
2013-09-21: iOS 7 includes support for Multipath TCP.
2013-09-21: Edward C++Hands.
2013-09-21: Git internals.
2013-09-21: SecurID: security through obscurity.
2013-09-21: iPhone 5s: basic fingerprint replication fails to defeat TouchID sensor.
2013-09-20: Frog's knickers: a review of "Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing".
2013-09-19: Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights.
2013-09-19: The cltq story: undefined behaviour in code that seems to use only unsigned integers.
2013-09-18: The d-left CBF has the same functionality as a counting Bloom filter, but generally uses half the space or less.
2013-09-18: How Tim O'Reilly failed.
2013-09-18: CEO who sold Doubleclick to Google replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit.
2013-09-18: Cryptography for the paranoid.
2013-09-18: A jewel at the heart of quantum physics.
2013-09-17: Cryptography coding standard.
2013-09-17: Getting real about distributed system reliability.
2013-09-17: CDC report links use of antibiotics as livestock growth enhancer to human deaths.
2013-09-17: Not the morphine: the size of the cage! Rat Park upturns conventional wisdom on addiction.
2013-09-17: Updated SSL/TLS deployment best practices deprecate RC4.
2013-09-16: Ronn: markdown to manpage converter.
2013-09-16: The bizarre evolution of the word "cyber".
2013-09-16: The banality of systemic evil.
2013-09-16: DNSSEC validation for the PowerDNS Recursor.
2013-09-16: SmartFacts: factorizing crypto keys created by certified secure smart cards.
2013-09-16: NSA performs active MITM attacks.
2013-09-16: The Republican plot to kill Obamacare.
2013-09-16: Towards representing APL in Haskell.
2013-09-16: Betrayal of the Internet imaginaire.
2013-09-15: Good SSL server configuration is absurdly difficult in practice.
2013-09-14: The Cambridge Tab has improved student journalism.
2013-09-14: Things you should NEVER say during presentations.
2013-09-14: Mac OS X security configuration guides.
2013-09-14: Photos from the roof above King's Cross Station.
2013-09-14: The ugliest C feature: tgmath.h
2013-09-14: The Feynman lectures on physics.
2013-09-14: Four options for reopening Varsity train line from Cambridge to Bedford revealed by Railfuture.
2013-09-13: Solaris random number generation.
2013-09-13: Stealthy dopant-level hardware trojans: malicious chips resistant to microscopic inspection.
2013-09-13: The Hornsleth deep storage project is deeply, darkly, weird.
2013-09-13: Software engineering: a great discipline for an academic fraudster.
2013-09-13: Ray Dolby, 1933-2013.
2013-09-12: It takes a village to save a hard drive.
2013-09-12: Battle Mountain world human-powered speed challenge 2013.
2013-09-12: Graeme Obree is aiming for 100mph on his "Beastie" at Battle Mountain this week.
2013-09-12: History and implementation status of Opportunistic Encryption for IPsec.
2013-09-12: Cambridge Teslathon, 26th/27th October 2013.
2013-09-12: Defeating ebook DRM with a Kindle, an iSight, and Lego Mindstorms.
2013-09-11: ZooKeeper vs. Doozer vs. Etcd.
2013-09-11: (Intellectual) Property is Theft!
2013-09-11: Gems mined from NSA documents and FISA court opinions.
2013-09-11: The NSA machine: Too big for anyone to understand.
2013-09-11: NSA: still bound by laws of computational complexity.
2013-09-11: x86 oddities.
2013-09-10: Bring back monad comprehensions.
2013-09-10: How to fake fingerprints.
2013-09-10: Polymer banknotes coming to the UK in 2016.
2013-09-10: Superlinear indexes research project.
2013-09-10: The TokuFS streaming file system.
2013-09-10: Tokutek fractal tree indexing overview.
2013-09-10: Hoxton Street Monster Supplies.
2013-09-10: Counting to four billion really fast.
2013-09-10: Fake storefronts in New York. (The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company is super cool.)
2013-09-10: The real NSA tradeoff: quality of governance.
2013-09-09: Understanding the robustness of SSDs under power fault.
2013-09-09: Code archaeology with Git.
2013-09-09: How the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business.
2013-09-09: Nothing up my sleeve number.
2013-09-09: A guide to branching in Mercurial.
2013-09-09: An in-depth analysis of Mercurial and Git branches.
2013-09-09: git-remote-gcrypt: gpg-encrypted git remote storage.
2013-09-09: NSA intelligence coup: terrorist suspects use pizza shops.
2013-09-09: Authenticated encryption: encrypt-and-MAC vs encrypt-then-MAC vs MAC-then-encrypt.
2013-09-09: ReDS: a framework for reputation-enhanced distributed hash tables.
2013-09-09: Problems with IPSEC crypto. (1995)
2013-09-08: On the British press's lack of interest in the NSA/GCHQ scandal.
2013-09-08: National Service Bill. The 1950s called: they want their policies back.
2013-09-08: Smoothies and fruit juices are a risk to health.
2013-09-08: Dubstep: the musical.
2013-09-08: Harvard Business School case study: gender equity.
2013-09-08: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011.
2013-09-08: NSA can spy on all kinds of smart phones.
2013-09-07: Global jellyfish populations appear to fluctuate on a decadal basis.
2013-09-07: 90% of Tor keys can be broken by the NSA.
2013-09-07: Jellyfish are taking over!
2013-09-07: UK government plans to take money from the working poor.
2013-09-07: Sweden sits on pipeline of communications intelligence 'gold'.
2013-09-07: 1Password and the crypto wars.
2013-09-07: A brief history of unusual punctuation marks.
2013-09-07: Speculation on NSA activity in IPSEC standardization.
2013-09-07: NSA access is built into Windows.
2013-09-06: Certified lies: detecting and defeating government interception attacks against SSL.
2013-09-06: A path forward for an LLVM toolchain on Windows.
2013-09-06: What if an attacker tampers with /etc/ssh/moduli?
2013-09-06: How CMU increased the proportion of women in computer science from 7% to 42%.
2013-09-06: Nginx is taking over the Internet.
2013-09-06: Toys R Us pledges to stop gender specific product marketing.
2013-09-06: BeeLine reader: colour gradients help eyes track lines more easily.
2013-09-06: The public interest argument for publishing the NSA decryption story.
2013-09-06: Matt Green on the NSA.
2013-09-06: Security dangers of NIST elliptic curves.
2013-09-06: Cambridge parkour POV. (YouTube)
2013-09-06: Did the NSA put a backdoor in new crypto RNG standard?
2013-09-06: Cambridge UKIP candidate Hugh Mennie fined for forging election signatures.
2013-09-06: How advanced is the NSA's cryptanalysis, and can we resist it?
2013-09-06: How to remain secure against NSA surveillance.
2013-09-06: Bias in computer systems.
2013-09-06: Technological due process.
2013-09-06: Welcome to human rights: make yourself uncomfortable. Internet freedom and humanitarian aid.
2013-09-05: NSA and GCHQ defeat crypto and security on the internet.
2013-09-05: Train toilets of the world.
2013-09-05: 1000 Americans try to name a British city other than London.
2013-09-05: The baby and the Ba'ath water: US interference in Syria in the 1940s.
2013-09-04: DNS cache poisoning: new vulnerabilities and implications.
2013-09-04: DNS UDP fragmentation considered poisonous.
2013-09-04: Don't run a Tor router and a hidden service from the same connection!
2013-09-04: Bridge over troubled bolts: safety concerns about new Bay Bridge.
2013-09-04: Soviet cable cars above a Georgian mining town.
2013-09-03: Microsoft plus Nokia: Pending patent troll?
2013-09-03: Trying for academic tenure without publishing.
2013-09-03: The patent troll crisis is really a software patent crisis.
2013-09-03: Sealand is planning Havenco 2.0.
2013-09-02: Google Play Services: the closed-source meta-app that is defragging Android.
2013-09-02: Generators vs fibers in node.js: statically marked vs unmarked coroutines.
2013-09-02: On compiling 34 year old C code.
2013-09-02: Wikipedia decides to disregard Manning's change of name.
2013-09-02: How to choose colours procedurally.
2013-09-02: The Leaky Establishment: nuclear comedy ebook.
2013-09-02: Offender tagging: electronic curfew in the UK.
2013-09-02: Syria: climate change, drought and social unrest.
2013-09-01: One-legged man accused of benefit fraud after officials examine wrong leg.
2013-09-01: Indiana man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison.
2013-09-01: Who has more info: Guantánamo defense lawyers or Hollywood?
2013-08-31: Build cycling infrastructure like Livingston!
2013-08-31: What happens when someone takes on US consumer protection regulators.
2013-08-31: MOV is Turing complete.
2013-08-31: A properly untranslatable word: 爽
2013-08-31: Ballmer: The man who got the Innovator's Dilemma too much.
2013-08-31: The US GAO on the problems with software patents.
2013-08-31: The sovereign double-standard: US power and interventionism.
2013-08-31: All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction.
2013-08-31: After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime to route all calls via their servers.
2013-08-31: Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 single chip scientific calculator.
2013-08-31: How much does HFT latency arbitrage take from other traders?
2013-08-31: California's foie gras ban is upheld by appeals court.
2013-08-31: CoffeeScript is 4 times more concise than C.
2013-08-30: High school journalists successfully test shield law In cyberbullying suicide case.
2013-08-30: How to make your own halloumi.
2013-08-30: The active badge location system. (1992)
2013-08-30: Guided busway legal battle with BAM Nuttall settled by Cambridgeshire County Council.
2013-08-30: Success for LGBT+ campaign, as Cambridge University drops gendered dress codes.
2013-08-30: UK government may develop new chemical weapon for use on protesters.
2013-08-29: Spy Kids: the NSA and the end of jobs for life.
2013-08-29: The strange death of the British middle class.
2013-08-28: London to Brighton by train, in 1953, 1983, and 2013.
2013-08-28: SQLite's next-generation query planner.
2013-08-28: Looking inside the Dropbox client: reverse engineering and security analysis.
2013-08-28: Dang ol' babies!
2013-08-28: Gallery of multiprocessor cache effects.
2013-08-27: The CODE keyboard. (Pity about the typography.)
2013-08-27: 8 questions to ask before you automate.
2013-08-27: Spoof geolocation with a rogue WiFi AP.
2013-08-27: Necessary and proportionate surveillance?
2013-08-27: Righting the ship on US higher education costs.
2013-08-27: GitHub featured in the New Yorker.
2013-08-27: The Bristol bus boycott that led to the race relations acts.
2013-08-27: Cryptobox: a crypto API modelled on DJB's NaCl using NIST ciphers.
2013-08-27: How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit?
2013-08-27: Wireless mesh networks will save us from censorship.
2013-08-26: High resolution photographs and 3D models of British fossils.
2013-08-26: Wireless mesh networks won't save us from censorship.
2013-08-26: The spooks' aim: To make journalism harder, slower, less secure.
2013-08-26: How Snowden did it.
2013-08-26: Mind the gap: London Underground station platform gaps.
2013-08-26: Security Debianisms.
2013-08-26: Accidentally Turing-Complete.
2013-08-26: Lessons learned from mistakes made scaling Reddit to 1 billion pageviews a month.
2013-08-26: Phone hack can block calls and SMS on GSM networks.
2013-08-26: The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy.
2013-08-26: ostree: atomic upgrade and rollback for Linux systems.
2013-08-26: The Posix filesystem API sucks.
2013-08-26: Comparing U.S. vs world covers of TIME magazine.
2013-08-26: State of innovation: Busting the private-sector myth.
2013-08-26: The best map ever made of America's racial segregation.
2013-08-26: Write-optimized B-trees.
2013-08-26: The Science of Cycology: can you draw a bicycle?
2013-08-26: When authorities confiscate your electronics they will install malware before returning them.
2013-08-26: Fewer accidents in Oxford after speed limits reduced to 20mph.
2013-08-26: Mesh networking approaches the mainstream.
2013-08-26: olsrd: an adhoc wireless mesh routing daemon.
2013-08-26: Comparing AODV and OLSR mesh routing protocols.
2013-08-26: Economic reductionism stops here.
2013-08-26: Declassified CIA files prove America helped Saddam target chemical weapons against Iran.
2013-08-26: Pregnancy: the hard facts.
2013-08-26: Use two-factor authentication for Mozilla Persona on your own domain.
2013-08-25: Net into dire muck (an anagram of Nominet Direct UK).
2013-08-25: A third party report on the open .uk 2LD proposal.
2013-08-25: Nimrod: a statically typed language with macros and message-passing concurrency.
2013-08-25: Idea: git push requests.
2013-08-25: Boilerplate for autotools-based C project.
2013-08-25: The seven deadly sins of distributed systems.
2013-08-25: 1980s horror movie poster logos and typography.
2013-08-24: Met police refusing to co-operate with IPCC investigation into abuse of border interrogation powers.
2013-08-24: Closing TCP connections is unreliable.
2013-08-24: The Lib Dems used to keep us honest. Not any more.
2013-08-24: Somebody's listening: Duncan Campbell's report on Echelon. (1988)
2013-08-24: How the government finally ruins 3D printing.
2013-08-24: Banned hallucinogen ibogaine could cure heroin addiction.
2013-08-24: What Manning revealed.
2013-08-24: Parsing C++ is undecidable.
2013-08-24: C++ and the culture of complexity.
2013-08-24: CoVim: collaborative editing for vim.
2013-08-23: CloudFlare's new WAF: compiling to Lua.
2013-08-23: Two cheers for GitHub.
2013-08-23: Divisibility rules for hex.
2013-08-23: The obesity epidemic started around 1980.
2013-08-23: UK government now leaking documents about itself.
2013-08-23: UK's secret Mid-East internet surveillance base.
2013-08-23: How biased is the BBC?
2013-08-23: Soldering is Easy: here's how to do it.
2013-08-23: SMT soldering: it's easier than you think!
2013-08-23: Another Sokal takedown: the number 2.9013 will go down in the history of bad science.
2013-08-23: The confidential memo at the heart of the global financial crisis.
2013-08-23: How computers took over trading.
2013-08-23: How to make perfect coffee.
2013-08-23: The silent power of the NSA. (1983)
2013-08-23: Chelsea Manning: on pressing the button.
2013-08-23: NSA domestic spying: Mathematicians should speak out.
2013-08-22: Authentication flaws in the Tesla Model S REST API.
2013-08-22: Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?
2013-08-22: The real, terrifying reason why the British authorities detained David Miranda.
2013-08-22: SourceForge making money from malware installers.
2013-08-22: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messaging.
2013-08-22: OpenSSL PRNG is not really fork-safe.
2013-08-22: nanomsg: an improved ØMQ.
2013-08-22: Social Engineering: security through education.
2013-08-22: Deterministic builds for Tor: why? Cyberwar and global compromise.
2013-08-22: CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials.
2013-08-22: DHS lawyer says travelers need not submit to TSA VIPR searches.
2013-08-22: UK government considers banning tiny mobile phones.
2013-08-22: Real spies got shorter sentences than Bradley Manning.
2013-08-22: A PHP implementation written in PHP.
2013-08-21: The algebra of Unix shell history substitution.
2013-08-21: A week with Mozilla Rust.
2013-08-21: Painted rainbow nails are too gay for the Olympics.
2013-08-21: US intelligence on the record.
2013-08-21: Surveillance, censorship, and secrecy - Pacific island style.
2013-08-21: Volkan the Intruder: one-man underpants party in Merkel's jet.
2013-08-21: The whistleblower's mad moral courage.
2013-08-21: 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional.
2013-08-21: The only way to avoid the US invention secrecy act is to forgo patent protection.
2013-08-21: Containers and Docker: how secure are they?
2013-08-21: Does the Cabinet Secretary think democracy is a frivolous game?
2013-08-21: Pixarific Rim.
2013-08-21: Four fears for authoritarians.
2013-08-21: August 2013 GNU Toolchain update.
2013-08-21: The key to happiness? love something to the point of ridicule.
2013-08-21: Surveillance, totalitarianism and botched up causality.
2013-08-21: Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth.
2013-08-21: Zircon affair: UK government secrecy vs journalism in the 1980s.
2013-08-21: NSA taps 75% of Internet traffic in the USA.
2013-08-21: An astronaut nearly drowned in space.
2013-08-21: The 5-in-1 network admin's cable.
2013-08-21: The great App.net mistake.
2013-08-21: DNS reflection attacks, and measuring resolver support for DNS over TCP.
2013-08-20: NSA documents released to the public since June 2013.
2013-08-20: What the spooks know. (2005)
2013-08-20: Count the women. Count the people of color.
2013-08-20: Heuristics and rules: why CloudFlare built a new old WAF.
2013-08-20: Louise Mensch provides a right wing view of Snowden / Greenwald / Miranda.
2013-08-20: Mac OS X hardening tips from the NSA.
2013-08-20: Getopt::Declare: generate command line parsers for Perl programs from their usage documentation.
2013-08-20: genparse: command line parser generator.
2013-08-20: docopt: generate a command-line argument parser from your usage documentation.
2013-08-20: Patent trolls: Tracking down the litigious invention owners.
2013-08-20: Groklaw shuts down due to pervasive surveillance.
2013-08-20: John le Carré: the spies who lost it.
2013-08-20: John le Carré: "I was a secret even to myself."
2013-08-20: Bradley Manning and the two Americas.
2013-08-20: UK defence authority notice system: quasi-unofficial press censorship.
2013-08-20: US government prosecuting instructors of polygraph-beating methods.
2013-08-19: What did the US government ask Lavabit to do?
2013-08-19: Research software engineers have no recognised career path within universities.
2013-08-19: Srelipmoc in esruoc tsrif a.
2013-08-19: The danger that reporters now face: GCHQ think destroying laptops in London will stop Snowden's stories.
2013-08-19: New features in JavaScript / ECMAScript 6.
2013-08-19: David Miranda detention at Heathrow and schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.
2013-08-19: Google claims it is not subject to UK privacy laws.
2013-08-19: Moore's law could stay on track with progress in extreme UV photolithography.
2013-08-19: The phenomenon of bullshit jobs.
2013-08-19: JavaScript ~~ double bitwise not is a fast alternative to Math.floor.
2013-08-19: Measuring the practical impact of DNSSEC deployment.
2013-08-19: B4: Google's private globally-deployed software-defined WAN.
2013-08-19: python-raven: ucam-webauth and Raven application agent in Python.
2013-08-19: Managed runtime initiative: a (failed) attempt to improve Linux kernel support for userland garbage collection.
2013-08-19: Teaching race to white kids.
2013-08-19: How Laura Poitras helped Snowden spill his secrets.
2013-08-18: C++ resumable functions: async and await.
2013-08-18: UK limits on political campaign spending will criminalize dissent.
2013-08-18: Update on PyPy software transactional memory.
2013-08-18: I hate the Pumping Lemma.
2013-08-18: UK border guards detain and interrogate journalist's partner over NSA/GCHQ spying reports.
2013-08-18: Jeff Dean on how neural networks are improving everything Google does.
2013-08-18: Are short methods actually worse?
2013-08-18: Truffle/Graal: one VM to rule them all: fast dynamic languages, with a Ruby prototype.
2013-08-18: Kal: a JavaScript reskin with async wait.
2013-08-18: Preferential voting explained by a dingo-punching koala.
2013-08-18: Cookieless cookies using ETag.
2013-08-18: 40 interesting maps.
2013-08-17: New tweets per second record: how it became possible.
2013-08-17: C ints are finite numbers! Using _Generic to define isnan().
2013-08-17: Graceful degradation of SVG image tags.
2013-08-17: Travels with Smalltalk.
2013-08-17: PiCL crypto review: Firefox sync / profile in the cloud.
2013-08-17: Effect of drug prohibition spending on addiction rates.
2013-08-17: C# async: Callbacks are our generation's goto statement.
2013-08-16: The International Olympic Committee supports Russia's homophobic law.
2013-08-14: What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with Einstein's theory of relativity.
2013-08-14: UK ISPs blindly block innocent web sites.
2013-08-14: Aircrew map of Britain.
2013-08-14: Understanding Russia's homophobia.
2013-08-14: Subverting BIND's SRTT algorithm: derandomizing NS selection.
2013-08-14: Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?
2013-08-14: Latitude, longitude? MQTTitude! A decentralized Google Latitude.
2013-08-14: Proof pearl: a verified bignum implementation in x86-64 machine code.
2013-08-13: Beery type designers hack Jupiler coasters.
2013-08-13: Babelmark FAQ: on the differences between Markdown implementations.
2013-08-13: Hacking Transcend WiFi SD cards.
2013-08-13: Railway safety doesn't need scare quotes: it works.
2013-08-13: 64-bit time_t now on OpenBSD.
2013-08-12: Return by value in C.
2013-08-12: Straight Pride UK try to censor their own press release.
2013-08-12: Hyperloop.
2013-08-12: Randomly failed! Weaknesses in Java SecureRandom.
2013-08-12: Every important person in Bitcoin just got subpoenaed by New York's financial regulator.
2013-08-12: Redefining 'undefined' in JavaScript.
2013-08-12: LightSquared investor sues GPS companies in attempt to recover wasted money.
2013-08-12: UKIP Cambridgeshire county council candidate charged with forging signatures on nomination form.
2013-08-12: Mio: a high-performance multicore IO manager for GHC.
2013-08-11: Newspapers in the US: How the post was lost.
2013-08-11: Reverse engineering Megamos car security crypto?
2013-08-11: When did we start trusting code without security management?
2013-08-11: Hamlet is banned at the British Library.
2013-08-10: Tallinn becomes "capital of free public transport".
2013-08-10: The history of the default iPhone message alert sound.
2013-08-10: The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines. (second edition)
2013-08-09: Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you.
2013-08-09: Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs.
2013-08-09: British court blocks publication of VW Megamos security analysis.
2013-08-09: Two providers of secure email shut down.
2013-08-09: STACK: optimisation-unstable code checker.
2013-08-09: NSA to sack 90% of its system administrators.
2013-08-09: Urban grid management and the police state in China.
2013-08-09: Encrypted e-mail service linked to Edward Snowden shut down by US government.
2013-08-09: Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by cops than by terrorists.
2013-08-09: Why I changed my mind about cannabis.
2013-08-09: What is it about the Internet that turns people into massive dicks?
2013-08-08: Why everyone is pissed off about Google Chrome's password storage.
2013-08-08: A leap second bug led Facebook to develop better data center infrastructure management tools.
2013-08-08: The quiet carriage proficiency test.
2013-08-08: Staring at the sun: Dalvik vs. ASM.js vs. native code.
2013-08-08: What derailed the UK economic recovery?
2013-08-07: Typo: a programming language that runs in Haskell's type system.
2013-08-07: Shanghai 26 years ago and now.
2013-08-07: Should legal codes be copyrighted? Let's sue to find out!
2013-08-07: Defending against the BREACH https compression information leak attack.
2013-08-07: If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he'd ask a basic question: "Does it do any good?"
2013-08-07: The Toobin principle: repeal the concept of an informed public, repress your decision to take such a drastic step.
2013-08-06: Resistive RAM: a terabyte on a chip, smaller than flash.
2013-08-06: Former NSA chief terrified of nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings.
2013-08-06: Bruce Sterling vs Internet freedom activists.
2013-08-06: The simplest periodic table: no numbers, no letters, just dots.
2013-08-06: Phabricator: code review, bug tracker, source browser, wiki...
2013-08-06: Configuring Apache, nginx, and OpenSSL for forward secrecy.
2013-08-06: Sterling's "The Ecuadorian Library" vs civil liberties groups.
2013-08-06: The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.
2013-08-06: Welcome to post-constitutional America.
2013-08-06: Remembering the Apple Newton's prophetic failure and lasting impact.
2013-08-05: Car hacking research paper and software.
2013-08-05: cson: compact textual json variant.
2013-08-05: A switch failure in Utah took out four big hosting providers.
2013-08-05: hlld: A high performance C server for HyperLogLog cardinality estimation.
2013-08-05: SNMP reflection/amplification DDoS: the vulnerability you might not know you have.
2013-08-05: Dava Sobel on leap seconds.
2013-08-05: Co-ordinated omission: when high-latency requests make performance statistics look better.
2013-08-04: Strongly universal string hashing is fast.
2013-08-04: Sharing science is a crime.
2013-08-04: Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents.
2013-08-04: Half of TOR sites compromised.
2013-08-04: Ethics and power in the long war.
2013-08-04: How to support both Python 2 and 3.
2013-08-03: Raft: an understandable consensus algorithm.
2013-08-03: etcd: a highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
2013-08-03: Dust: a censorship-resistant Internet transport protocol.
2013-08-03: 40 unusual maps.
2013-08-03: Why did the NSA not have a contingency plan?
2013-08-03: Embedded C++
2013-08-03: International principles on the application of human rights to communications surveillance.
2013-08-03: The Ecuadorian Library: Bruce Sterling on the NSA.
2013-08-03: How we all pay for bankers.
2013-08-03: Archaeology: The milk revolution.
2013-08-03: Most Dutch undersea cables are operated by friends of GCHQ.
2013-08-03: If we ignore the human in the ‘troll', they will always exist.
2013-08-03: Universal Credit staff describe chaos behind scenes of flagship Tory reform.
2013-08-03: Writing advice from Chuck Palahniuk.
2013-08-03: Patient lost £18,000 data protection battle over GP medical records.
2013-08-03: Bikes are taking over London.
2013-08-03: Twitter issues new rules to crack down on abuse.
2013-08-03: What are your rights if stopped by Home Office officials in the street?
2013-08-03: Forebruary: a calendar for every month.
2013-08-03: Sweden does not produce enough rubbish to feed its power plants.
2013-08-03: How the Snowden saga will end.
2013-08-03: And I'm like, Quotative ‘like' isn't just for quoting.
2013-08-03: Penguin's insane policy on electronic galleys for authors.
2013-08-02: I can still see your actions on Google Maps over SSL.
2013-08-02: Carriers rush to fix SIM card vulnerability by hacking into them.
2013-08-02: Entire University of California goes open access.
2013-08-02: More UKBA racism.
2013-08-02: Paypal turns blind eye to payments totaling $35,000 for on-demand DDoS.
2013-08-02: How to talk to your daughter about her body.
2013-08-02: Updates to online archived news stories need to be kept current, rules High Court.
2013-08-02: The Snowden Effect: definition and examples.
2013-08-02: Goldman Sachs overstepped by criminally prosecuting its ex-programmer.
2013-08-02: Fast and loose reasoning is morally correct: treating languages as if they are total.
2013-08-01: Employer tipped off police to pressure cooker and backpack searches.
2013-08-01: The future of https on Wikipedia.
2013-08-01: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ.
2013-08-01: Pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa: Internet searches lead to visit from terrorist task force.
2013-08-01: NSA's Utah data centre construction project.
2013-07-31: OSI: the internet that wasn't.
2013-07-31: Great visualizations of twitter activity.
2013-07-31: PEG.js: parser generator for JavaScript.
2013-07-31: Most toxic behaviour does not come from toxic people.
2013-07-31: Practical demo of GPS spoofing with an $80 million yacht.
2013-07-31: How to help someone stopped for an immigration ID check.
2013-07-31: Testing embedded applications with greatest.
2013-07-31: Pictures of Tottenham Court Road Station works.
2013-07-31: The struct hack invokes undefined behaviour, from Pascal strings to Python tuples.
2013-07-30: NSA: the decision problem.
2013-07-30: A hole in our collective memory: copyright made mid-century books vanish.
2013-07-30: Naked ladies infected with smut fungus.
2013-07-30: There are plenty of contexts in which to be "neutral" is simply to be wrong.
2013-07-30: John Carmack's .plan files from 1997.
2013-07-30: OMG! They're using Windows RT!
2013-07-30: The "sea of nodes" approach in the Java HotSpot server compiler.
2013-07-30: Fungicides implicated in bee colony collapse disorder.
2013-07-30: Semantic hashing for similar document retrieval.
2013-07-30: Regulation, technology and caution are making fires a thing of the past.
2013-07-30: On the security of TLS: a systematic analysis.
2013-07-30: New York Subway map based on radial lines.
2013-07-30: Those who deny access to history are condemned repeatedly.
2013-07-30: Serco: the company that is ru[in]ning Britain.
2013-07-30: UK to charge £3000 bond for visas from six former colonies.
2013-07-30: A purely hypothetical conversation about censorship.
2013-07-29: A brief history of sour beer.
2013-07-29: Simplifying OTR deniability.
2013-07-29: GPS jamming.
2013-07-29: Who are the trolls?
2013-07-29: Raspberry Pi dashcam overlaid with OBD telemetry.
2013-07-29: Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video.
2013-07-29: Clever card fraud based on a land line user interface gotcha.
2013-07-29: Women-hating trolls come out on a radio call-in.
2013-07-29: How to choose randomly with a coin.
2013-07-29: Political momentum builds against NSA surveillance.
2013-07-29: The difference between Boolean objects and primitives in JavaScript.
2013-07-29: The surprisingly short history of the history of technology.
2013-07-29: SkyMall's SkyFall.
2013-07-28: Variable scoping in CoffeeScript and JavaScript.
2013-07-28: Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars.
2013-07-28: US government is trying to get user account passwords.
2013-07-27: Le systeme Chappe: Napoleon's semaphore telegraph.
2013-07-27: Government bee scientist behind controversial study joins pesticide firm.
2013-07-27: Rape threats on Twitter won't get women to shut up. If we shout back we'll win.
2013-07-27: 20 years of attacks on RSA.
2013-07-27: We need an engineering-oriented replacement for Applied Cryptography.
2013-07-27: Hackers reveal nasty new car attacks.
2013-07-27: Anita Sarkeesian and the gamification of misogyny.
2013-07-27: Asciiflow: ASCII art flow diagram tool.
2013-07-26: When smart homes get hacked.
2013-07-26: Nate Silver's departure from the New York Times and fake vs real objectivity.
2013-07-26: Group messaging crypto and the CAP theorem.
2013-07-26: Stickonspy: NSA branded web cam stickers.
2013-07-26: Performance of Haskell vs ninja C.
2013-07-26: A measure of sacrifice: the mechanisation of time.
2013-07-26: Mozilla's work on eliminating conservative GC to support moving generational GC.
2013-07-26: Hollywood's takeover by Blake Snyder's formulaic screenwriting book, Save the Cat!
2013-07-25: Switching from Gmail to FastMail.
2013-07-25: The .pw and .la domain name auctions show there isn't much money in new TLDs.
2013-07-25: The hourglass: an underrated invention.
2013-07-25: US government is trying to get TLS private keys.
2013-07-25: FAQs: why gov.uk doesn't have them.
2013-07-25: Butterick's Practical Typography.
2013-07-25: Anti-usability dark patterns: the slippery slope.
2013-07-25: The unprofitable SaaS business model.
2013-07-25: The Mail claims victory in moral crusade.
2013-07-25: Macaw: the code-savvy web design tool.
2013-07-25: Is overblocking defamatory?
2013-07-25: LL and LR parsing demystified.
2013-07-24: The evolution of Direct3D.
2013-07-24: The vitamin myth.
2013-07-24: Lots of ideas for software.
2013-07-24: Common misconceptions about computers.
2013-07-24: CloudFlare's fourth generation server design.
2013-07-24: Crypto flaw makes millions of phone SIMs susceptible to hijacking.
2013-07-24: First confirmed patent application rejected due to Ask Patents.
2013-07-24: Visual Poi: very swish LED light-writing.
2013-07-24: Distributed flight array: autonomous robots self-assemble and take flight as one.
2013-07-24: What teachers make.
2013-07-19: Our new same-sex marriage is not yet equal marriage.
2013-07-19: AppleScript is protestant with a lower-case "p", as iOS and much of OS X is catholic with a lower-case "c".
2013-07-19: JavaScript isn't Scheme.
2013-07-19: North Sentinel: the forbidden island.
2013-07-19: Archives of the Board of Longitude now online.
2013-07-19: An arrest in response to the March DDoS attacks on Spamhaus.
2013-07-18: Pitch drop experiment drops pitch after 69 years.
2013-07-18: Gay marriage: a database engineering perspective.
2013-07-18: Your dog can get vaccinated against Lyme disease but you can't.
2013-07-17: What is the difference between common and civil law?
2013-07-17: If the NSA can't do it over the net, the CIA will pwn your computer in person.
2013-07-17: Should we regard young driver deaths as a scandal? RAC proposes graduated drivers licences.
2013-07-17: Which proposed new gTLDs suffer the most from squatting and bogus query traffic?
2013-07-17: Mission creep: when everything is terrorism.
2013-07-17: Update on Computing Service moves.
2013-07-16: A mechanical mosquito deterrent.
2013-07-16: Is the EU data protection regulation revision dead? If not, should it be?
2013-07-15: Who has the most web servers?
2013-07-15: USA gave asylum to someone who leaked classified documents.
2013-07-15: GitHub finally takes open source licenses seriously.
2013-07-15: Dyninst API for runtime code insertion.
2013-07-15: Cello: higher level programming in GNU C99.
2013-07-15: US CALEA supports the use of strong end-to-end encryption.
2013-07-15: Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war over porn filters.
2013-07-15: Water is a better metaphor for the great firewall of China.
2013-07-15: Where the hell is the economic and political outrage?
2013-07-15: NSA backdoors in old Crypto AG ciphering machines.
2013-07-15: When a mathematical hypothesis is neither true nor false.
2013-07-15: Engineers and the managers they make.
2013-07-15: Where will all the traffic go when you remove an inner-city highway?
2013-07-15: Has patent, will sue: an alert to corporate America.
2013-07-15: Think your office is soulless? Check out this Amazon warehouse.
2013-07-14: HyperRogue III: a roguelike game in non-Euclidean space.
2013-07-14: A human-powered helicopter wins the $250,000 Sikorsky prize.
2013-07-14: Reduce latency by putting TLS endpoints near users.
2013-07-14: dygraphs: JavaScript visualization library.
2013-07-14: Travellers' mobile phone data seized by police at UK border.
2013-07-14: Why James Chartrand wears women's underpants.
2013-07-13: There is no benefit in reducing salt intake and it may even be dangerous.
2013-07-13: The USA's incarceration epidemic.
2013-07-13: Stig of the Dump: an appreciation on its 50th anniversary.
2013-07-13: Mozilla's root CA certificate store continues to grow.
2013-07-13: David Cameron told to sack strategy chief over corrupt link to tobacco giants.
2013-07-13: The death of David Kelly 10 years on.
2013-07-13: Wanting to build first without Javascript is not the same as hating it.
2013-07-13: An ingenious paper map with multiple zoom levels.
2013-07-13: What most Americans don't know about America.
2013-07-13: Changing the Creepy Guy narrative.
2013-07-13: The history of CTRL + ALT + DELETE.
2013-07-13: Using Phones/SMS for 2FA is unwise.
2013-07-13: The Ireland abortion debate, summed up in one disrespectful gesture.
2013-07-13: Staying on top of TLS attacks.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>