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2014‑12‑31: New long-lasting material for solar thermal power plants converts 90% of light to heat.
2014‑12‑30: Over 78% of PHP installations have a security vulnerability.
2014‑12‑30: Dissent: accountable anonymous group communication.
2014‑12‑30: Dark Mail: key distribution and end-to-end encrypted email.
2014‑12‑30: On nerd entitlement.
2014‑12‑30: Cyranoids: If someone secretly controlled what you say, would anyone notice?
2014‑12‑30: Quake on an oscilloscope.
2014‑12‑30: Clean sheet: how to release data or statistics in a spreadsheet.
2014‑12‑29: The ternary calculating machine built by Thomas Fowler in 1840.
2014‑12‑28: Worse than a defeat: the British military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2014‑12‑28: Domebuilder's blues.
2014‑12‑28: Another ad blocking /etc/hosts file.
2014‑12‑28: An ad blocking /etc/hosts file.
2014‑12‑28: Tracking protection in Firefox: built-in ad blocking.
2014‑12‑27: Quantum random number generation using a smartphone camera.
2014‑12‑27: U&lc typography magazine online.
2014‑12‑27: robdns: authoritative DNS server with user land IP stack.
2014‑12‑27: DNS speed test.
2014‑12‑27: Slow, flexible, and cheap: developing a dome kit.
2014‑12‑27: Fear makes you a worse programmer (and sysadmin).
2014‑12‑27: Setting up PHP-FastCGI and nginx? Don't trust the tutorials: check your configuration!
2014‑12‑26: Why deployment freezes don't prevent outages.
2014‑12‑26: ISC WordPress site compromised to serve malware.
2014‑12‑26: Using fast matrix exponentiation to write an interpreter for a simple programming language.
2014‑12‑26: arXiv racing toward the one million mark.
2014‑12‑26: PLOS is anti-elitist! PLOS is elitist! The weird world of open access journalism.
2014‑12‑26: UCL: universal configuration language.
2014‑12‑26: Do not use subtraction to compare numbers.
2014‑12‑26: Adventures in piano building.
2014‑12‑26: Turf: a modular GIS engine written in JavaScript.
2014‑12‑25: Laws restricting technology actually expose us to greater harm.
2014‑12‑25: Uncertain<T>: a first-order type for uncertain data.
2014‑12‑24: Ten myths of innovation.
2014‑12‑24: Coz: causal profiling for C/C++.
2014‑12‑24: Principles of distributed computing.
2014‑12‑24: Safe VSP: horizontal scrolling reveals a hardware bug in the Commodore 64.
2014‑12‑23: The update framework: a plug-and-play library for securing a software updater.
2014‑12‑23: Docker image insecurity.
2014‑12‑23: PHP's new hashtable implementation.
2014‑12‑23: Erdős conjecture on large gaps between primes has been proved.
2014‑12‑22: GCHQ failed to stop the 2008 Mumbai attacks despite having an eye on the perpetrators.
2014‑12‑21: ntimed: PHK's NTP implementation on GitHub.
2014‑12‑21: Illegal Guys: a history of digital subcultures in Europe during the 1980s.
2014‑12‑21: Meet the CIA's queen of torture.
2014‑12‑21: Maps of religious belief and disbelief in Cambridge.
2014‑12‑21: E-rhythms data sonifier: listen to your activity logs.
2014‑12‑21: What cities have learned about tearing down urban highways.
2014‑12‑21: How to write a proof: Leslie Lamport's structured proofs.
2014‑12‑20: The rise of the shitpic: memes that keep getting copied imperfectly.
2014‑12‑20: The mystery of the missing Tim Hortons apostrophe.
2014‑12‑20: Avoiding tethering blocks on Android KitKat.
2014‑12‑20: How to spot counterfeit passive electronic components.
2014‑12‑20: PHK at work on NTP.
2014‑12‑19: Thoughts on cryptography in Rust.
2014‑12‑19: Roaring bitmaps: a better compressed bitset.
2014‑12‑19: Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) contains multiple vulnerabilities.
2014‑12‑19: Colonial gin and tonic.
2014‑12‑18: Fundamental plot arcs, seen through multidimensional analysis of thousands of TV and movie scripts.
2014‑12‑18: Interactive smartphone comparison chart.
2014‑12‑17: Some systems at ICANN were compromised.
2014‑12‑17: A two-rotor swashplateless helicopter.
2014‑12‑17: The US government's role in root zone management.
2014‑12‑16: The NIPS experiment: academic conference paper acceptance is more random than expected.
2014‑12‑15: evSrc: apply a bioinformatics technique to your source history to reveal bad areas of software design.
2014‑12‑15: Programming and programming languages: an introductory CS textbook using Pyret.
2014‑12‑15: The low oil price could cause a crisis for banks that hold trillions in commodity derivatives.
2014‑12‑15: Amplio: software for measuring the performance of surgeons.
2014‑12‑14: Fast integer overflow detection with LLVM.
2014‑12‑14: There is no evidence that businesses are more efficient than the public sector.
2014‑12‑13: Cold water cures: experiments in cold brew coffee.
2014‑12‑13: Advances in statistics lead to advances in ecology.
2014‑12‑13: Curfew tags: the gory details.
2014‑12‑12: The infinitely delegating name servers attack.
2014‑12‑12: Garbage collection and totality.
2014‑12‑11: Simple hack you can use to bypass Keurig 2.0 coffee DRM.
2014‑12‑11: JMAP: JSON Mail Access Protocol.
2014‑12‑09: OSTree: git for operating system binaries.
2014‑12‑09: A study into UK IPv4 and IPv6 address allocations.
2014‑12‑09: Why women are leaving the tech industry.
2014‑12‑09: mermaid: generate diagrams from markdown-like text.
2014‑12‑09: Diagrammix: commercial diagram software for Mac OS.
2014‑12‑09: ditaa: convert ASCII art diagrams to nice images.
2014‑12‑09: Gliffy: draw diagrams in your browser.
2014‑12‑08: Five A350 XWBs flying in close formation. (YouTube)
2014‑12‑08: Galileo satellite successfully recovered to correct orbit and transmitting navigation signals.
2014‑12‑07: The gender politics of pockets.
2014‑12‑07: Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's non-recursive quicksort.
2014‑12‑07: Zusie: a home-made relay computer.
2014‑12‑07: The UK's new porno censorship regulations are a step towards international trade sanctions.
2014‑12‑07: When data gets creepy: the secrets we don't realise we're giving away.
2014‑12‑06: Phyllis Pearsall, creator of the London A-Z map.
2014‑12‑06: Many academics who write software have had no formal training.
2014‑12‑05: Introducing Varnish Massive Storage Engine.
2014‑12‑05: The ongoing failure of the PG-13 rating: lots of killing but no sex.
2014‑12‑05: The programming language wars.
2014‑12‑05: The cost of the S in HTTPS.
2014‑12‑04: Flipping bits in memory without accessing them: an experimental study of DRAM disturbance errors.
2014‑12‑03: The open-plan office trap.
2014‑12‑02: Nature makes all its articles free to view in an annoying proprietary crappy PDF reader.
2014‑12‑02: Jackie Chan Blu-ray disc boosts solar panel efficiency by a massive 22%.
2014‑12‑01: The superiority of economists.
2014‑12‑01: The "fundamental rule" of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more.
2014‑12‑01: Code everything in Java.
2014‑12‑01: The long road to Maxwell's equations.
2014‑12‑01: The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth.
2014‑11‑30: Big brother IS watching you. Don't be complacent about the surveillance state.
2014‑11‑30: Checklists for software.
2014‑11‑30: A Minecraft server monitor in Perl.
2014‑11‑30: Zero knowledge proofs: an illustrated primer.
2014‑11‑29: LEGO's letter to parents: how not to tell fake typography when you don't see it.
2014‑11‑26: Reconstructed EDSAC switched on for the first time.
2014‑11‑26: Transactions: the limits of isolation. Databases are not properly ACID.
2014‑11‑26: Solving the mystery of trunked link imbalance: a metastable failure state at Facebook.
2014‑11‑26: The impact of email work done at RAND in the 1970s.
2014‑11‑26: Ansible reminds me of PHP's salad days.
2014‑11‑26: The art of insight in science and engineering.
2014‑11‑26: Cambridge University fibre network diagram, London Underground tube map style.
2014‑11‑26: WiFried: iOS 8 / Mac OS X 10.10 WiFi performance problems.
2014‑11‑26: How to remove yourself from background check sites.
2014‑11‑26: Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers.
2014‑11‑26: A working Lego particle accelerator.
2014‑11‑25: Social status is more strongly inherited even than height.
2014‑11‑25: How do I draw a pair of buttocks by plotting a 3D formula?
2014‑11‑25: Understanding Boys, Understanding Girls. Teaching the implications of gender roles to children.
2014‑11‑24: Snake on a keyboard: a reverse engineering story.
2014‑11‑24: A peek into the massive scale of Amazon AWS.
2014‑11‑23: "What Wikipedia taught me about my grandfather."
2014‑11‑23: Fibonacci layered lemonade.
2014‑11‑23: How mediaeval astronomers calculated trigonometry tables.
2014‑11‑23: Wait a minute! A fast cross-VM cache side-channel key recovery attack on AES.
2014‑11‑23: Empirical analysis of UK legislation started this weekend.
2014‑11‑23: Footage of the first bungee jump, by Oxonians from Clifton suspension bridge in 1979.
2014‑11‑23: ST&G's marvellous map of Great British place names.
2014‑11‑22: The state of Creative Commons.
2014‑11‑22: runfs: self-cleaning FUSE file system for per-process state (e.g. pid files).
2014‑11‑22: crates.io: the hosting service for Rust programming language packages.
2014‑11‑22: The real roots of the midlife crisis.
2014‑11‑22: What it would take to really reverse climate change.
2014‑11‑21: AnsibleFest London February 2015.
2014‑11‑21: VoCore: a one inch square Linux computer.
2014‑11‑21: Mapumental: how far you can travel by public transport in a given time.
2014‑11‑21: Bogus academic journal accepts profanity-laden anti-spam paper.
2014‑11‑21: World maps without New Zealand.
2014‑11‑20: Atlas of audiovisual artifacts.
2014‑11‑20: MIT developing miniature laser fountain atomic clocks.
2014‑11‑20: Cache is the new RAM: a perspective on databases.
2014‑11‑20: Interpreting Debian's general resolution on init systems.
2014‑11‑19: Learn to code with Anna and Elsa from Frozen.
2014‑11‑19: French company builds bare metal ARM server cloud.
2014‑11‑19: New EU VAT rules change the game for digital businesses.
2014‑11‑19: The horrible implications of the EU VAT "place of supply" rule change.
2014‑11‑19: Standards for scientific graphic presentation.
2014‑11‑19: The Internet has disintermediated the music industry, and it is going from strength to strength.
2014‑11‑19: How Google brought PILE OF POO to America.
2014‑11‑19: Twelve infographics about London.
2014‑11‑18: Zonemaster DNS checker.
2014‑11‑18: Interpreting alpha values of pixels: coverage vs opacity.
2014‑11‑18: CVE-2014-6324: privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory.
2014‑11‑18: A Silicon Valley company is developing Dalek security robots.
2014‑11‑18: HANDS: heuristic online storage deduplication with low memory overhead.
2014‑11‑18: Attic: deduplicated encrypted incremental backups.
2014‑11‑18: Relatively complete counterexamples for higher-order programs: automatically find erroneous inputs.
2014‑11‑17: RAPPOR: privacy-preserving data collection from client software.
2014‑11‑17: Why we should give free money to everyone.
2014‑11‑17: PostgreSQL vs MS SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst.
2014‑11‑17: The impact of widespread HTTP encryption on traffic interception middleboxes in mobile networks.
2014‑11‑17: Triggering the MS14-066 winshock SChannel vulnerability.
2014‑11‑17: Mediaeval siege warfare against old server hardware. (video)
2014‑11‑17: UK launches orphan work licensing scheme, but misses the opportunity to make it much better.
2014‑11‑17: How does copyright work in space?
2014‑11‑17: Petition to replace the benefits system with a universal basic income.
2014‑11‑17: Six-way banana genome Venn diagram.
2014‑11‑17: Two simple rules for avoiding a #shirtstorm
2014‑11‑17: A growing proportion of citations are to older scientific papers.
2014‑11‑17: The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning.
2014‑11‑16: The chemistry of seasoning cast iron pans: a science-based how-to.
2014‑11‑16: Pesticides increase the risk of depression in farmers.
2014‑11‑16: Albert Michaelson's harmonic analyser: Fourier analysis with a mechanical computer.
2014‑11‑16: Why there is a winter flu season.
2014‑11‑16: Electoral fraud in the UK.
2014‑11‑16: Docking with an uncooperative object: the little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station.
2014‑11‑16: How the Enigma machine worked.
2014‑11‑16: Thousands join "stop the killing" road safety protest in London.
2014‑11‑16: Why the Rosetta science guy's sexy shirt crash landed.
2014‑11‑16: How the House of Lords mixes politics and business.
2014‑11‑15: Grimms' fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation.
2014‑11‑14: Hard drive SMART stats.
2014‑11‑14: Newstweek is a device for manipulating news read by other people on wireless hotspots.
2014‑11‑14: Array operators using multiple dispatch in Julia.
2014‑11‑13: We perceive negative comments to be inherently more intelligent than positive ones.
2014‑11‑13: The Headington Shark house in Oxford is available to rent.
2014‑11‑12: CREAM: the scary SSL attack you've probably never heard of.
2014‑11‑12: Amazon to begin testing same-day delivery drones in Cambridge.
2014‑11‑12: Underground London: adventures in the secret city beneath our feet.
2014‑11‑11: TCP is harder than it looks.
2014‑11‑11: giltene/wrk2: an HTTP benchmarking tool which avoids co-ordinated omission of high latency requests.
2014‑11‑11: At last Apple lets you deactivate iMessage and solve your missing txt problem.
2014‑11‑10: Announcing Bosun: StackExchange's alerting software written in Golang.
2014‑11‑10: An overview of Linux kernel lock improvements.
2014‑11‑10: A review of Black Cow pure milk vodka.
2014‑11‑10: All cameras are police cameras.
2014‑11‑10: Joan Clarke, Bletchley Park cryptanalyst.
2014‑11‑10: The quinoa quarrel.
2014‑11‑10: Batch NFS: factorizing many RSA keys with the number field sieve.
2014‑11‑09: Gov.uk rolls out its federated online identity verification system.
2014‑11‑09: Trying out Rust and Golang.
2014‑11‑09: Why a programming language designer finds IEEE 754 frustrating.
2014‑11‑08: Restoring the IBM 1401 computer.
2014‑11‑08: Julia: a fresh approach to numerical computing.
2014‑11‑08: Creating user profiles from DNS lookups and other network behaviour.
2014‑11‑08: Synthesizing JPEGs out of thin air using the afl fuzz tester.
2014‑11‑08: A fire took out a huge Bitcoin mining operation.
2014‑11‑08: Gamergate is a seemingly self-sustaining system of hatred.
2014‑11‑07: Security requirements of time protocols (NTP and PTP) in packet switched networks.
2014‑11‑07: Receiving signals from dead satellites with the RTL-SDR.
2014‑11‑07: Moshpit simulation.
2014‑11‑07: Animations of asteroid (and comet) groups in the solar system.
2014‑11‑07: The horror of blimps.
2014‑11‑07: The $9 billion whistleblower describes JPMorgan Chase's securities fraud.
2014‑11‑07: What is new in Cobol 2014.
2014‑11‑07: The Oculus Rift makes Elite: Dangerous amazing—and impossible to describe.
2014‑11‑06: Running a supercomputer at the south pole.
2014‑11‑06: The Greater Manchester Combined Authority will have more devolved powers than anywhere in England, including London.
2014‑11‑06: Imposition of identity, English Parliaments, and "Englishness".
2014‑11‑06: More articles about idleness at work.
2014‑11‑06: Google Docs stores the full timestamped history of each document's keystrokes.
2014‑11‑06: The art of not working at work.
2014‑11‑06: Belgian and French copyright laws ban photos of buildings.
2014‑11‑05: Zoetrope chocolate cake. (video)
2014‑11‑05: The diatomist. (Vimeo)
2014‑11‑05: Precise measurements of Earth's changing gravity field for monitoring weather and climate.
2014‑11‑05: Highly sensitive atomic clocks may end time as we know it.
2014‑11‑05: FixedFixer: turn position:fixed into position:static to get rid of obtrusive HTML elements.
2014‑11‑05: Redis latency spikes, alternative malloc()s and the Linux kernel.
2014‑11‑05: Please grow your buffers exponentially.
2014‑11‑05: Dropping a hammer and a feather on the moon.
2014‑11‑05: Dropping a bowling ball and some feathers in the world's biggest vacuum chamber.
2014‑11‑05: Cambridge University's new £20M low-PUE data centre.
2014‑11‑04: The Dunning-Kruger effect: we are all confident idiots.
2014‑11‑04: The 1960s Batman TV series will soon be available on DVD.
2014‑11‑04: C4: C in 4 functions.
2014‑11‑04: A Lisper's first impression of Julia.
2014‑11‑04: What would the Tube map look like if it only contained ghost stations?
2014‑11‑04: The zombie system: how capitalism has gone off the rails.
2014‑11‑02: How Apple Pay and Google Wallet work.
2014‑11‑02: Euclid location analytics uses WiFi to track shoppers.
2014‑11‑02: France's great wines are feeling the heat of climate change.
2014‑11‑02: Why weird domestic architecture is common in Japan.
2014‑11‑02: Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion: the drug laws don't work.
2014‑11‑01: LORAN Europe.
2014‑11‑01: Gamergate is a disaster for those promoting the artistic respectability of games.
2014‑11‑01: Cellphone redirection allows Google 2FA bypass.
2014‑11‑01: Solving British housing crisis: building homes where we need them.
2014‑11‑01: UK deploys eLoran at 7 locations.
2014‑11‑01: Harvard libraries opened to women in 1967.
2014‑11‑01: The Phaistos disk has been decoded.
2014‑11‑01: BTAgent HomeHub CPE backdoor.
2014‑11‑01: Is it possible to compile Mac OS Darwin from source?
2014‑11‑01: Mac OS X launchd functional overview.
2014‑11‑01: What computer scientists should know.
2014‑11‑01: Collected advice on Unix CLI design and implementation.
2014‑11‑01: Netflix Message Security Layer.
2014‑10‑31: Reversing D-Link's WPS PIN algorithm.
2014‑10‑31: Shellshock in Java apps.
2014‑10‑31: Music theory for musicians and normal people.
2014‑10‑31: Parental leave in the USA.
2014‑10‑31: IT change management.
2014‑10‑31: news.demon.co.uk is no more
2014‑10‑30: The Internet Arcade at the Internet Archive.
2014‑10‑30: Metal meets classical. (Videos)
2014‑10‑30: Most web page loads will experience 99%ile server latency.
2014‑10‑29: A quick intro to Rust macros.
2014‑10‑29: Why the UK is being asked to pay €2 billion to the EU.
2014‑10‑29: A survey comparison of Green and UKIP supporters.
2014‑10‑29: The speed of the Python, Ruby, and Lua parsers.
2014‑10‑29: Private sector bureaucracy is twice as wasteful as government red tape.
2014‑10‑29: Cuckoo filters: practically better than Bloom.
2014‑10‑28: The water clocks of Bernard Gitton.
2014‑10‑28: UK High Court rules that ISPs must censor sites selling counterfeit goods.
2014‑10‑28: ISC BIND developer information.
2014‑10‑28: The drunk utilitarian.
2014‑10‑28: Cray announced as supplier for new Met Office supercomputer.
2014‑10‑27: A comic about seagulls.
2014‑10‑27: A code of conduct is not enough to eliminate sexual harassment at a conference.
2014‑10‑27: Stats from 72 hours of #gamergate on Twitter.
2014‑10‑27: Be grateful for drizzle: high frequency trading.
2014‑10‑27: Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the metadata / semantic web utopia.
2014‑10‑27: The crude UKIP/Tory assault on Europe strikes at the very heart of Enlightenment values.
2014‑10‑26: New Jersey's e-vote experiment after Hurricane Sandy was a disaster.
2014‑10‑26: The bottom 90 percent of Americans are poorer today than they were in 1987.
2014‑10‑26: Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor.
2014‑10‑26: Mercurial revsets.
2014‑10‑26: Some versions of Linux ldd are vulnerable to social engineering exploits.
2014‑10‑26: Walter Bright on C's biggest mistake.
2014‑10‑26: HiStar: securing untrustworthy software using information flow control.
2014‑10‑25: Stealthy startup Soft Machines launches virtual CPU cores that trounce traditional processors.
2014‑10‑25: USB armory: flash key sized open source computer for security applications.
2014‑10‑25: Mailinator private domains.
2014‑10‑25: Marginal tax rates of close to 90% on the top 1% of earners are optimal.
2014‑10‑25: Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files.
2014‑10‑25: Intellectual property, Jewish ethics, and Aaron Swartz.
2014‑10‑23: Jan-Piet Mens on DNS.
2014‑10‑23: Software engineers should keep lab notebooks.
2014‑10‑23: Hackers are using micro-targeted ads to deliver malware to weapons manufacturers.
2014‑10‑23: Microwaves are going solid state: say goodbye to the last mass-market vacuum tube product.
2014‑10‑23: Trinity: a Linux syscall fuzzer.
2014‑10‑23: The Radarange Collection: keeping the oldest microwave ovens working.
2014‑10‑22: Hostile subdomain takeover using Heroku/Github/Desk + more.
2014‑10‑22: New FTDI drivers are killing fake USB/serial chips.
2014‑10‑21: Hints for writing Unix tools.
2014‑10‑21: Xerox Alto source code.
2014‑10‑21: Noether: programming language design based on preserving and carefully breaking symmetries.
2014‑10‑21: Porting a raytracer from C++ to Rust.
2014‑10‑21: A masterclass in epithets from an NFL player re gamergate.
2014‑10‑21: The hidden Templar symbology of the OREO cookie.
2014‑10‑21: Gamergate from another journalist's point of view.
2014‑10‑20: Security collapse in the https market.
2014‑10‑19: Cyclists should get a "toad tax" (vehicle excise duty) rebate.
2014‑10‑19: Average number of languages spoken by people in each EU country.
2014‑10‑18: Everything you need to know about cooking with blood.
2014‑10‑18: Impending kOS: what happens when an APL implementer gets into systems programming.
2014‑10‑18: A history of the octave.
2014‑10‑18: Gamergate from a journalist's point of view.
2014‑10‑18: The man who was too drunk to die.
2014‑10‑18: Your language's writing system sucks.
2014‑10‑18: Yosemite upgrade made slow by non-Apple files in /usr - tips and workarounds.
2014‑10‑18: A myth-busting guide to UK crime statistics.
2014‑10‑18: Autism as a disorder of prediction?
2014‑10‑18: X.509 certificate revocation awareness test.
2014‑10‑18: titus: totally isolated TLS unwrapping server.
2014‑10‑18: The parents of #gamergate.
2014‑10‑17: Stop Spotlight in Mac OS X Yosemite from sending all queries to Apple.
2014‑10‑17: Gandi CLI: easily create and manage domains / certificates / VMs / etc. from the command line.
2014‑10‑17: SSLmate: buy X.509 certificates from the command line.
2014‑10‑17: FFS SSL.
2014‑10‑17: American Fuzzy Lop: a practical instrumentation-driven fuzz tester.
2014‑10‑17: Cambridge's Perne Road roundabout design.
2014‑10‑17: Brain baloney has no place in the classroom / popular neuroscience myths.
2014‑10‑16: Stop secret public sector contracts.
2014‑10‑16: Morris dancing. Borderline racist?
2014‑10‑15: South Korean ID system to be rebuilt from scratch.
2014‑10‑15: Cryptic genetic variation in software: hunting a 41 year old bug in RANLIB.
2014‑10‑15: Lockheed Skunk Works reveals compact fusion reactor details.
2014‑10‑15: Separated by a common language: "twang".
2014‑10‑15: Some POODLE notes.
2014‑10‑15: POODLE attacks on SSLv3.
2014‑10‑15: Mozilla security on the POODLE attack and the end of SSLv3.
2014‑10‑15: POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability stats and recommended actions.
2014‑10‑15: Mozilla recommendations for server TLS configuration.
2014‑10‑15: How POODLE happened.
2014‑10‑15: This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback with a padding oracle attack.
2014‑10‑14: CARDIAC: cardboard illustrative aid to computation.
2014‑10‑14: Near miss project: investigating cycling safety.
2014‑10‑14: World standards day.
2014‑10‑14: DNS reverse lookup REMOTE_HOST environment variable shellshock.
2014‑10‑14: 99.99% uptime on a 9-to-5 schedule.
2014‑10‑14: Alerting philosophy of a Google site reliability engineer.
2014‑10‑13: Always bet on text.
2014‑10‑13: Guerrilla capacity planning mantras.
2014‑10‑13: When theft was worse than murder: centuries of trial documents reveal our changing attitudes to crime.
2014‑10‑13: Logical fallacies: your baloney detection kit sucks.
2014‑10‑13: cAPTain: a server for distributing site-local Debian packages.
2014‑10‑13: aptly: manage a Debian mirror with version snapshots.
2014‑10‑12: Blocked sewage pipe leads to power plant explosion and $500 million damage.
2014‑10‑12: Rich command shells.
2014‑10‑11: Document Liberation: open source software to read unsupported proprietary files.
2014‑10‑11: EDNS compliance report.
2014‑10‑11: Apache Spark breaks large-scale sort record.
2014‑10‑11: The sub-2-hour marathon: who and when?
2014‑10‑11: What will it take to run a sub-2-hour marathon?
2014‑10‑11: Lzz: C++ .c/.h splitter for lazy programmers.
2014‑10‑10: Why Elite matters.
2014‑10‑10: EE, Vodafone, and Three give police mobile call records at click of a button.
2014‑10‑10: Samsung's 3-bit 3D V-NAND enters mass production; cheaper SSDs on the horizon.
2014‑10‑10: IX: a protected dataplane operating system for high throughput and low latency.
2014‑10‑10: Intel's fsin instruction is horribly inaccurate.
2014‑10‑09: Spritz: a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function. (slides)
2014‑10‑09: How gov.uk plans to verify your identity online.
2014‑10‑09: Why Peak Oil predictions haven't come true.
2014‑10‑09: New Tube trains and signalling for London.
2014‑10‑09: Map of London. (1851)
2014‑10‑09: The Clark-Wilson data security model.
2014‑10‑09: A detailed examination of the Shellshock bash bug.
2014‑10‑08: European Court of Human Rights strengthens anti-torture safeguards.
2014‑10‑08: Meatball Wiki: What is a troll? Resources for moderators.
2014‑10‑08: Evaluating student evaluations of university courses.
2014‑10‑08: Linux containers and the future cloud.
2014‑10‑08: Simple DNSSEC fact sheet.
2014‑10‑08: Faster JavaScript parsing.
2014‑10‑08: Building efficient query engines in Scala.
2014‑10‑08: SQLite is now 50% faster than it was last year.
2014‑10‑07: Rust means never having to close a socket.
2014‑10‑07: A brief look at the security of Apple Pay.
2014‑10‑07: Seven deadly sins when talking about types.
2014‑10‑07: New class of vulnerability in Perl web apps: right operand of => evaluated in list context.
2014‑10‑06: Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy: most of the benefits of technological change are passed on to consumers rather than captured by producers.
2014‑10‑06: The anti-smartphone beer glass. (video)
2014‑10‑06: An open letter to anyone who has experienced my son's meltdowns.
2014‑10‑06: What happens when evangelical christians debate climate change.
2014‑10‑06: Polyphonic overtone singing: one person in harmony with herself.
2014‑10‑06: The bacon craze was not an accident.
2014‑10‑05: Postal censorship in England 1635-1844.
2014‑10‑05: Vim blowfish encryption is broken.
2014‑10‑05: Reversible, tiny, faster: Hands-on with the USB Type-C plug.
2014‑10‑05: Routing meals on wheels using a space-filling curve.
2014‑10‑05: "In 1976 I discovered Ebola, now I fear an unimaginable tragedy."
2014‑10‑05: Standard sexist action movie plot.
2014‑10‑05: Aboard the largest container ship, Mary Maersk.
2014‑10‑04: Cisco rogue WiFi detection and jamming.
2014‑10‑04: WiFi jamming via deauthentication packets.
2014‑10‑04: The man who smuggles Traders Joe's into Canada.
2014‑10‑04: Why don't students like school?
2014‑10‑04: Mandos: unattended boot for servers with encrypted filesystems.
2014‑10‑04: The Silk Road CAPTCHA configuration: a case of parallel construction?
2014‑10‑04: Samsung V-NAND 3D vertical stacked flash cells.
2014‑10‑04: Ikea's new toolless furniture.
2014‑10‑03: The NSA and James Bamford.
2014‑10‑03: Kim Jong-un is no longer in control of North Korea.
2014‑10‑02: How I rewired my brain to become fluent in mathematics.
2014‑10‑02: Moazzam Begg was prosecuted for "terrorism" activities that were agreed with MI5.
2014‑10‑02: IBM discontinues Lotus 123. "There are no replacement programs."
2014‑10‑02: Interactive map of every British railway line ever.
2014‑10‑02: Why is exporting shell functions ever useful?
2014‑10‑02: Seven digital deadly sins. (HTML5 video etc.)
2014‑10‑02: It's no joke: humour is rarely welcome in research write-ups.
2014‑10‑02: A fresh look at Rust.
2014‑10‑02: Compile-time PostgreSQL query syntax checking for Rust.
2014‑10‑02: Emergent info: tracking bullshit, like Snopes for Twitter.
2014‑10‑02: "Not" neutrality?
2014‑10‑02: Facebook's "cold storage" is literally as well as metaphorically cold.
2014‑10‑01: More about the bash shellshock bugs, including the other two remote code execution vulnerabilities.
2014‑10‑01: 7,000 years older than Stonehenge: stone circles that predate agriculture.
2014‑09‑30: Hacker News is a cesspit.
2014‑09‑30: A review of the High Sierra shower head.
2014‑09‑30: Idiomatic generics in golang as a service.
2014‑09‑30: Opening the source repository with anonymous CVS.
2014‑09‑30: Limitations of iOS 8 MAC address randomization.
2014‑09‑30: Tory party wants to roll back weights and measures education to the 1800s.
2014‑09‑30: Krakatoa made a sound so loud it circled the earth four times.
2014‑09‑30: Postgres full-text search is good enough!
2014‑09‑29: Most people addicted to drugs simply grow out of it.
2014‑09‑29: DNSSEC: how far have we come?
2014‑09‑29: The various unix shells.
2014‑09‑29: Beyond the selfie stick: the personal photography drone.
2014‑09‑29: Langsec: From "shotgun parsers" to more secure stacks.
2014‑09‑29: Bash's parser is locale-sensitive.
2014‑09‑29: E-cigarettes: a scientific review.
2014‑09‑29: Bye bye Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
2014‑09‑29: Take the Red Pill *and* the Blue Pill: how to provide a trusted path for authenticating online transactions.
2014‑09‑29: The start of the digital revolution at Bell Labs and the NSA: the SIGSALY system that inspired Shannon.
2014‑09‑28: Writing high-performance .NET code.
2014‑09‑28: ML programmer's guide to ATS.
2014‑09‑28: LibreSSL: five months in.
2014‑09‑27: Optimizing a compression algorithm's byte value histogram calculation.
2014‑09‑27: systemd: the end of Linux?
2014‑09‑27: Trademark case could set a precedent for website blocking.
2014‑09‑27: Firefox's new privacy button.
2014‑09‑27: The bash shellshock bug: a failure to apply formal grammars.
2014‑09‑27: Why academics stink at writing.
2014‑09‑27: How to write consistently boring scientific literature.
2014‑09‑27: CVE-2014-6277: another bug in bash.
2014‑09‑27: Penetration testing using DNS.
2014‑09‑27: Automasymbolic differentiation.
2014‑09‑27: About the PKCS#1 signature validation bug in NSS.
2014‑09‑27: Developing software in a hostile environment: OpenBSD's experiences with exploit mitigation.
2014‑09‑27: How to make error handling less error-prone: rescuing techniques from the 1970s.
2014‑09‑27: Yahoo plans to kill the web index it was founded on.
2014‑09‑27: The secret Goldman Sachs tapes reveal a supine Fed.
2014‑09‑27: Breaking the Silk Road CAPTCHA.
2014‑09‑27: xlwings: use Python instead of VBA in Excel.
2014‑09‑27: Code highlighting should use different colours for each name.
2014‑09‑27: John Carmack on big procedures and manually inlined code.
2014‑09‑26: The great lightbulb conspiracy.
2014‑09‑25: Left-Right: a concurrency control technique with wait-free population-oblivious reads.
2014‑09‑25: Bill Weaver's Blackbird broke up around him at Mach 3+.
2014‑09‑25: Nanotechnology leads to better, cheaper LEDs for phones and lighting.
2014‑09‑25: How do male scientists balance the demands of work and family?
2014‑09‑25: Neil Gaiman explains, Terry Pratchett isn't jolly. He's angry.
2014‑09‑25: The SSD endurance experiment: only two remain after 1.5PB.
2014‑09‑24: Oxytocin: the morality molecule.
2014‑09‑24: Total moving face reconstruction.
2014‑09‑24: Another patent troll slain. You are now free to rotate your smartphone.
2014‑09‑23: Central Madrid bans non-resident cars.
2014‑09‑23: Tonic Advance: promoting gender equality in theatres around Britain.
2014‑09‑23: When good NICs do bad things: a blast of IPv6 multicast listener discovery queries.
2014‑09‑23: Can you safely deliver entropy to a remote system?
2014‑09‑22: Harmony: an LLVM profiling tool for tackling Amdahl's law.
2014‑09‑22: Why Xenix 1.0 fails to run on an i386.
2014‑09‑22: APNIC policy SIG chair resigns.
2014‑09‑21: Why is Thomas Piketty's Capital a bestseller?
2014‑09‑21: Uselessd: a stripped down systemd.
2014‑09‑21: Lots of Lisp Machine links.
2014‑09‑21: OpenGL in 2014.
2014‑09‑21: Cattack: deter cats from messing up the garden.
2014‑09‑21: What a can of Coke contains.
2014‑09‑20: Futures aren't ersatz threads.
2014‑09‑20: The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction.
2014‑09‑20: Doing agile badly is cheaper than doing waterfall badly.
2014‑09‑20: 12 Java Snippets you won't believe actually compile.
2014‑09‑20: Intel unveils new Xeon CPU with integrated FPGA.
2014‑09‑20: Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++.
2014‑09‑20: The McDonald's cocaine spoon fiasco.
2014‑09‑20: To get more out of science, show the rejected research.
2014‑09‑19: Your iOS 8 data is not beyond law enforcement's reach - Yet.
2014‑09‑19: Open source font development tools from Adobe.
2014‑09‑19: Gandi CLI is now open source.
2014‑09‑19: numdiff: show numeric differences between files.
2014‑09‑19: CloudFlare keyless SSL.
2014‑09‑19: Victims of .prod gTLD name collisions respond "fuck Google!".
2014‑09‑19: Signed pushes for git.
2014‑09‑19: Charlieplexed LED displays.
2014‑09‑19: Thoughts on five years of the Emerging Languages conference.
2014‑09‑19: Apple's warrant canary disappears.
2014‑09‑19: Erlang in anger.
2014‑09‑19: A scientist stole my root beer.
2014‑09‑19: Tweet a program in the Wolfram language.
2014‑09‑18: Privacy violations using microtargeted ads: a case study.
2014‑09‑18: Pranking a roommate with eerily targeted Facebook ads.
2014‑09‑18: sshrc: bring your dotfiles with you when you ssh.
2014‑09‑18: Understanding weak isolation of database transactions is a serious problem.
2014‑09‑18: Smoking rates increase in New York after e-cigs are banned.
2014‑09‑18: Power of Optics: a chain reaction machine video.
2014‑09‑17: Five large UK government contracts are being investigated for fraud.
2014‑09‑17: What you need to know about the C++14 standard.
2014‑09‑17: Where do children's earliest memories go?
2014‑09‑17: Upgrading Github to Rails 3.0 with zero downtime.
2014‑09‑17: Galt's Gulch Chile libertarian utopia falls apart almost immediately.
2014‑09‑16: What you might learn when you become the Internet's most hated person.
2014‑09‑16: How the super-rich got richer: inequality in the UK.
2014‑09‑16: Lessons from real-life revolutions that fictional dystopias ignore.
2014‑09‑16: Who killed lard?
2014‑09‑16: Incremental garbage collection: the train algorithm.
2014‑09‑16: Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm.
2014‑09‑16: The courts have greatly restricted the Information Commissioner's powers to fight spam texts.
2014‑09‑16: Gmail accounts can take days to sync over IMAP.
2014‑09‑16: Netflix has a new slogan: Chaos Engineering.
2014‑09‑16: Desmos graphing calculator.
2014‑09‑16: Press and hold a key to get a mathematical symbol.
2014‑09‑16: Mathway
2014‑09‑16: MATHJQ: WYSIWYG equation editor supporting MathML and LaTeX.
2014‑09‑16: A visual equation editor.
2014‑09‑16: Online handwritten equation recognizer.
2014‑09‑16: Windows math input panel typesets handwritten equations.
2014‑09‑16: Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition for LaTeX.
2014‑09‑16: ASCIIMathML.js translates ASCII math notation to MathML and graphics.
2014‑09‑16: ASCIIMathML: mathematical markup without the backslashes.
2014‑09‑16: KaTeX: The fastest mathematics typesetting library for the web.
2014‑09‑15: Mailpile enters beta. It's like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer.
2014‑09‑15: The road to Rust 1.0.
2014‑09‑15: Android browser up to version 4.4 has easy JavaScript same-origin policy bypass.
2014‑09‑15: "You just chip away everything that doesn't look like David."
2014‑09‑15: Schizophrenia not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders.
2014‑09‑15: Types don't know #: type-independent hashing for C++
2014‑09‑15: What the Internet's most infamous trolls tell us about online feminism.
2014‑09‑15: Notch is leaving Mojang and Minecraft.
2014‑09‑15: Atchafalaya: sinking Louisiana. (1987)
2014‑09‑15: Ghostbusters is the best comedy ever made about the limits of the Lovecraftian worldview.
2014‑09‑14: Why is it taking so long to secure BGP?
2014‑09‑14: Onity wins: hotels don't have standing to sue them over their easily hacked locks.
2014‑09‑14: Wears jump suit. Sensible shoes. Uses husband's last name. Marked women, unmarked men.
2014‑09‑14: Fifteenth anniversary of the Cluetrain Manifesto.
2014‑09‑14: Algomation: animated algorithms.
2014‑09‑14: Get a copy of the New York City Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual.
2014‑09‑13: A free qemu image of Coherent Unix.
2014‑09‑13: Certificate Transparency in ACM Queue.
2014‑09‑13: Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court.
2014‑09‑13: The Rust Guide.
2014‑09‑13: Louisiana is sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
2014‑09‑12: Rich, educated and stupid parents are driving the vaccination crisis.
2014‑09‑12: Superbugs meet their match in rapid genome sequencing.
2014‑09‑12: Exploring TLA+ with two-phase commit.
2014‑09‑12: iPhone 6 screens demystified.
2014‑09‑12: The curious case of the iPhone 6+ 1080p display.
2014‑09‑12: Hands on with USB type C reversible connectors.
2014‑09‑12: Probable DNS cache poisoning of mail handling domains.
2014‑09‑12: US Government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 per day for not complying with PRISM.
2014‑09‑12: Death of RAID predicted, film at 11.
2014‑09‑12: netresolv: libc resolver, descendent of libbind.
2014‑09‑12: When no redundancy is more reliable than RAID 5.
2014‑09‑12: A termination detection algorithm for distributed computations.
2014‑09‑12: When random is better: parallel file tree walking.
2014‑09‑12: dcp: copy files in parallel on a distributed system.
2014‑09‑12: Problems copying lots of files with GNU cp: massive time and memory overhead.
2014‑09‑12: Copyright law offers such powerful remedies that it is increasingly being used in non-copyright cases.
2014‑09‑12: Dan Bricklin on disconnected mobile database apps.
2014‑09‑11: CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2015 shows UK has most breweries per head of population.
2014‑09‑11: How the US DoD DREN selects IPv6 capable suppliers.
2014‑09‑11: Firefox add-on enables web developer tools on other browsers and devices.
2014‑09‑11: Parliament without Scottish MPs: how would it have looked different since 1997?
2014‑09‑11: Hiding a WiFi network makes its mobile clients broadcast SSID probes instead of the AP.
2014‑09‑11: The character of physical law: Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell, 1964.
2014‑09‑11: D-Wave: the revolutionary quantum computer that may not be quantum at all.
2014‑09‑11: No quantum speed-up from D-Wave computers?
2014‑09‑10: Apple Pay's identification revolution.
2014‑09‑10: Why we fight wars.
2014‑09‑10: America's climate swerve.
2014‑09‑10: The curious case of the cyclist's shaven legs.
2014‑09‑10: Perspectives on Brewer's CAP theorem.
2014‑09‑10: git-as-svn: a svn server daemon with a git repository backend.
2014‑09‑10: How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers.
2014‑09‑10: Power Dive into the danger zone: copyright and 555uHz.
2014‑09‑09: The design of the REXX programming language.
2014‑09‑09: The London Hydraulic Power Company's extensive mains network.
2014‑09‑09: C100M: 100 million clients, 6.5 million requests per second, with userland TCP+HTTP.
2014‑09‑09: openSUSE gardened: Linux kernel with SUSE and grsec patches.
2014‑09‑09: Portal power: free energy with railway technology.
2014‑09‑09: The real Men in Black, Hollywood, and the great UFO cover-up.
2014‑09‑09: Socratic electronics.
2014‑09‑09: All about circuits.
2014‑09‑09: Google is pushing web sites to upgrade from SHA-1.
2014‑09‑09: What the online security experts tell their kids about Internet safety.
2014‑09‑08: How upvotes and downvotes shape user behaviour.
2014‑09‑08: When your prey's in a hole and you don't have a pole, use a moray.
2014‑09‑08: OpenSSL security policy.
2014‑09‑08: IPv6 neighbor discovery problems with layer 2 multicast state.
2014‑09‑08: Recommended reading on computer security.
2014‑09‑08: Notes from the development of xkcd's "Pixels".
2014‑09‑07: The design and implementation of probabilistic programming languages.
2014‑09‑07: Solarpunk: notes toward a manifesto.
2014‑09‑07: Alien Contact: a comic on gender roles.
2014‑09‑07: Twitter should not algorithmically curate the timeline.
2014‑09‑07: The phantom menace of militant atheism.
2014‑09‑07: IPv6 doom at MIT: the network nightmare that ate a week.
2014‑09‑07: YunoHost is a server operating system aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.
2014‑09‑07: iRedMail: free, open source mail server solution for Linux/BSD.
2014‑09‑07: How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain.
2014‑09‑07: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks for personal replacements for cloud services.
2014‑09‑07: Mail-in-a-Box.
2014‑09‑06: Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator IC.
2014‑09‑06: 300 (and more) flat-out evil lies: David Brin on Frank Miller's sequel.
2014‑09‑06: Designing analog chips.
2014‑09‑06: Water's edge: the crisis of rising sea levels.
2014‑09‑06: 33 things to do before climate change ruins everything.
2014‑09‑06: The ramifications of the SCotUS "Alice" patent legality decision.
2014‑09‑06: Bullet Journal: a paper note-taking system.
2014‑09‑06: Designing a personal knowledgebase.
2014‑09‑06: Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto.
2014‑09‑06: Why Amazon has no profits (and why it works).
2014‑09‑06: Memorizing "$19.05" helps you outsmart the New York MTA.
2014‑09‑06: Why a dead alkaline battery bounces more than a fresh one.
2014‑09‑06: Walking helps us think.
2014‑09‑06: Zeroing buffers is insufficient.
2014‑09‑05: Adding bike lanes in New York actually reduced traffic delays.
2014‑09‑05: The kind of story Facebook's algorithm finds positively toxic.
2014‑09‑05: Irish postcodes at last but random numbers don't address efficiency.
2014‑09‑05: Twitter CFO promises to kill its main selling point.
2014‑09‑04: How to zero a buffer. (Interesting volatile trick.)
2014‑09‑04: Ten surprises from numerical linear algebra.
2014‑09‑04: Better identification of Viking corpses reveals many of the warriors were female.
2014‑09‑04: Answers to 10 frequent comments on feminist blogposts.
2014‑09‑04: Notes on the celebrity nude photo data theft.
2014‑09‑04: vfmd: Markdown with a formal spec.
2014‑09‑04: Standard markdown.
2014‑09‑04: The few tough species known to survive the rigors of space.
2014‑09‑04: Visualizing garbage collection algorithms.
2014‑09‑04: DHCP client problems on systems with no battery backed clock.
2014‑09‑03: UK Government bans all schools from teaching creationism as science.
2014‑09‑03: A brief history of AUTODIN. (1973)
2014‑09‑03: Recalling the AUTODIN.
2014‑09‑03: The origins of network mail.
2014‑09‑03: Email history through RFCs.
2014‑09‑03: Bitsquatting: DNS hijacking via bit error name corruption.
2014‑09‑03: An epic rant about nude photos.
2014‑09‑03: A call for a low-carb diet that embraces fat.
2014‑09‑02: High performance packet filtering with pflua.
2014‑09‑02: Why is Huffington Post running a multi-part series promoting a guy who pretends he invented email?
2014‑09‑02: Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse.
2014‑09‑02: The C book.
2014‑09‑02: On teaching introductory computer science using "How To Design Programs".
2014‑09‑02: Formal methods in safety-critical railway systems.
2014‑09‑02: Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language.
2014‑09‑02: Invertible Bloom lookup tables.
2014‑09‑01: On the origins of "fuck", part 2: but what about the "d"?
2014‑09‑01: btrfs as a Linux packaging system.
2014‑09‑01: End-to-end arguments in the Internet: principles, practices, and theory. (test IDN link)
2014‑09‑01: A Minnesota man built a 3D printed concrete folly in his back garden.
2014‑09‑01: Digi-Comp II: wooden ball-bearing toy computer.
2014‑09‑01: A culture of innovation: insider accounts of computing and life at BBN.
2014‑09‑01: End-to-end arguments in the Internet: principles, practices, and theory.
2014‑09‑01: Resurrection of the 1973 ARPANET IMP code.
2014‑09‑01: A technical history of the ARPANET.
2014‑09‑01: In TCP, we have a model: Sender --(miracle)-- Receiver.
2014‑08‑31: London maps: a unique view of the capital through classic cartography.
2014‑08‑31: US telecoms giants call on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet.
2014‑08‑31: libco: coroutines for C89.
2014‑08‑31: Resizeable arrays in optimal time and space.
2014‑08‑31: Facebook's optimized std::vector replacement.
2014‑08‑31: States with medical marijuana have fewer painkiller deaths.
2014‑08‑30: Last call: there is no future for printed newspapers.
2014‑08‑30: Mass and length may not be fundamental properties of nature, according to new ideas bubbling out of the multiverse.
2014‑08‑30: Robert Lustig argues sugar is poison.
2014‑08‑30: Readings in databases.
2014‑08‑30: Inside Google's secret drone-delivery development program.
2014‑08‑30: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone.
2014‑08‑29: The downfall of Motorola.
2014‑08‑29: Keurig competitors have cracked their coffee DRM system.
2014‑08‑29: Networks all the way down, part 2.
2014‑08‑29: Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes?
2014‑08‑29: Five reasons Belgium has the worst traffic in Europe.
2014‑08‑29: Networks all the way down: the death of the bus.
2014‑08‑28: Student-built apps teach colleges a thing or two.
2014‑08‑28: Google's proposal for OpenPGP key distribution for their end-to-end browser extension.
2014‑08‑28: Call-by-meaning: applying the semantic web to APIs.
2014‑08‑28: Outside the closed world: on using machine learning for network intrusion detection.
2014‑08‑28: The CryptoPhone 500 detects IMSI catchers.
2014‑08‑28: First observation of sliding rocks in motion on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park.
2014‑08‑27: Vermont tones down War on Drugs to treat heroin as health issue.
2014‑08‑27: Proposal for a friendly dialect of C.
2014‑08‑27: NSEC5: provably preventing DNSSEC zone enumeration.
2014‑08‑27: The Mathematical Pirate's guide to factorizing cubics.
2014‑08‑26: The poisoned NUL byte exploit, 2014 edition.
2014‑08‑26: Summer school on hashing theory and applications.
2014‑08‑26: JavaScript: Servo's only garbage collector.
2014‑08‑26: 25 words that describe other words.
2014‑08‑26: Some "dark patterns" of underhanded e-commerce are now illegal in the UK.
2014‑08‑26: The relative cost of bandwidth around the world.
2014‑08‑25: The origin of death.
2014‑08‑25: Unofficial bash strict mode.
2014‑08‑25: How much wine was lost in the Napa Valley earthquake?
2014‑08‑25: What is the deal with NULL in SQL?
2014‑08‑25: The poorest regions of Northern Europe are in the UK.
2014‑08‑25: Side platforms vs island platforms.
2014‑08‑25: Atomic accidents.
2014‑08‑25: A review of the Philips Hue LED lighting system: the future of lighting?
2014‑08‑25: A review of nuclear criticality accidents.
2014‑08‑25: What happens when you stop clicking "like" on Facebook.
2014‑08‑25: C/C++ development environment for Emacs.
2014‑08‑25: Slavery lasted until Pearl Harbor.
2014‑08‑25: Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party.
2014‑08‑24: FOX TWO: the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile.
2014‑08‑24: All life is contained in CROBOTS: the effectiveness of simple battle tactics.
2014‑08‑23: How the woman got her period.
2014‑08‑23: Optimizing seed selection for fuzzing.
2014‑08‑23: Six points about type safety.
2014‑08‑23: How to be a fan of problematic things.
2014‑08‑23: "Escalator" was originally a trademark of the Otis elevator company.
2014‑08‑23: A Lego calendar, with photo-to-iCalendar conversion software.
2014‑08‑23: Most of the IKEA catalogue pictures are computer graphics not photography.
2014‑08‑22: Only 1 percent of "terrorists" caught by the FBI are real.
2014‑08‑22: NuSI: Gary Taubes' nutrition science initiative.
2014‑08‑22: Most Americans want to criminalize pre-teens playing unsupervised.
2014‑08‑22: You can watch an 'unaltered' version of Star Wars in HD today, if you bend the law.
2014‑08‑22: Canadian government suppresses scientific reports on polar melt.
2014‑08‑22: Linux performance tools.
2014‑08‑22: The invisible chair that you can wear.
2014‑08‑22: An intro to Linux ftrace and perf-tools.
2014‑08‑21: How Scotland might be robbed.
2014‑08‑21: The importance of vaccination; also, zombies.
2014‑08‑21: How about solarpunk?
2014‑08‑21: Why Racket? Why Lisp?
2014‑08‑21: 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire.
2014‑08‑21: fork() can fail.
2014‑08‑21: Gyrophone: recognizing speech using a phone's gyroscope.
2014‑08‑20: It is amusingly easy to hack traffic lights.
2014‑08‑20: Spritz: a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function.
2014‑08‑20: RetroBSD: unix for microcontrollers.
2014‑08‑20: Sunil Dutta tells it like it is about American policing.
2014‑08‑20: How cops became soldiers: an interview with police militarization expert Radley Balko.
2014‑08‑20: Patent troll king Intellectual Ventures sacks 20% of its staff.
2014‑08‑20: Nyms Identity Directory: an alternative to the PGP web of trust.
2014‑08‑20: VisuAlgo: visualising data structures and algorithms through animation.
2014‑08‑20: Frogsort as an exam question.
2014‑08‑19: Star Wars: The Despecialized Edition.
2014‑08‑19: What law enforcement needs to understand about Ferguson.
2014‑08‑19: The definition of Standard ML. (Now available as free PDFs.)
2014‑08‑19: We have C++14!
2014‑08‑19: The problem with NTP.
2014‑08‑17: Why the option type is better than nullable types.
2014‑08‑17: The City of London: a tax haven in the heart of Britain.
2014‑08‑17: Removing centre lines from roads significantly decreases traffic speed.
2014‑08‑17: UNGOV.UK: Policymaking is broken. Together we can fix it.
2014‑08‑16: Bankers make electricity more expensive when people most need it.
2014‑08‑16: PSA prostate screening is inaccurate and a waste of money.
2014‑08‑16: Viking ship discovered near Mississippi River.
2014‑08‑16: Genetic study supports link between carbohydrate digestion and obesity.
2014‑08‑16: What our most famous evolutionary cartoon gets wrong.
2014‑08‑16: Utopian for beginners: John Quijada and his conlang Ithkuil.
2014‑08‑15: Could hemp nanosheets topple graphene for making the ideal supercapacitor?
2014‑08‑15: Fifty Tom Swifties.
2014‑08‑15: Fifty years since the last death penalty in Britain.
2014‑08‑15: What's the matter with PGP?
2014‑08‑14: Mitro releases a new free and open source password manager.
2014‑08‑14: Law students defeat a patent troll.
2014‑08‑14: Erratum prompts Intel to disable TSX in Haswell and early Broadwell CPUs.
2014‑08‑14: Print this file, your printer will jam.
2014‑08‑14: Humans need not apply. (YouTube)
2014‑08‑14: Security as a class of interface guarantee.
2014‑08‑14: Security ceremony design and analysis.
2014‑08‑13: When the NSA accidentally cut Syria off the net.
2014‑08‑13: James Bamford interviews Edward Snowden.
2014‑08‑13: Just kill all of the comments already.
2014‑08‑13: An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room.
2014‑08‑13: Salt: the secret ingredient in your cocktail.
2014‑08‑13: First cordon sanitaire in a century: west African countries quarantine Ebola regions.
2014‑08‑13: Internet touches 512k BGP prefixes: outages possible next week.
2014‑08‑13: Swedish dad takes gamer kids to warzone.
2014‑08‑13: 512k BGP prefixes caused today's Internet hiccup.
2014‑08‑13: Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 7600 TCAM routing table size adjustment procedures.
2014‑08‑13: Ants in telecommunications equipment.
2014‑08‑13: BGP reaches 512k prefix limit in old Cisco routers; Internet breaks.
2014‑08‑13: The Matasano crypto challenges.
2014‑08‑12: Automated proof of Kepler's sphere packing conjecture using Isabelle and HOL.
2014‑08‑12: A DNS failure that turned tracking analytics into adware redirects.
2014‑08‑12: The copyright molly: making a living as a creator was always difficult; stronger copyright doesn't fix it.
2014‑08‑12: Tiny reversible USB Type-C connector finalized.
2014‑08‑12: Things that sometimes help if you have depression.
2014‑08‑12: What happens when you "like" everything you see on Facebook.
2014‑08‑12: Australia sees large fall in smoking after introduction of standardised packs.
2014‑08‑12: Medical research: What is a conflict of interest anyway?
2014‑08‑12: The Canadian Bitcoin BGP hijack.
2014‑08‑12: This is the face of my mental illness.
2014‑08‑11: The crooked ladder: the gangster's guide to upward mobility.
2014‑08‑11: Safely composable type-specific programming languages.
2014‑08‑10: Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer.
2014‑08‑10: The man who can see the Internet: a profile of Renesys.
2014‑08‑10: Security of OS-level virtualization technologies.
2014‑08‑10: When is one thing equal to some other thing?
2014‑08‑10: Secrets of amazing teachers: What both sides of the education reform debate get wrong about autonomy and accountability.
2014‑08‑10: The agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago that wasn't.
2014‑08‑10: Haskell Backpack: What's a module system good for anyway?
2014‑08‑09: The origin of the term 0day in hacking.
2014‑08‑09: Earl Grey tea intoxication.
2014‑08‑09: Hacker used BGP attack against 19 ISPs to steal bitcoins.
2014‑08‑08: Understanding Clojure transducers through types.
2014‑08‑08: Worst API ever.
2014‑08‑08: p5.js: Processing re-done for the web. (Follow the Hello! link.)
2014‑08‑06: The study of adjective order and GSSSACPM.
2014‑08‑06: Twitter won't stop harassment, so its users are making apps to help.
2014‑08‑06: An inventor who is working on ultrasound / piezoelectric wireless chargers.
2014‑08‑06: Breaking the GameBoy Tetris world record.
2014‑08‑06: TCP and its lower bound on web latency.
2014‑08‑06: 3D object manipulation in a 2D photograph using stock 3D models.
2014‑08‑06: Dutch roads have speed-measuring induction loops. It's open data: here's a map.
2014‑08‑05: Malicious SHA-1: tweaked constants allow easy collisions.
2014‑08‑05: Ansible vs SaltStack.
2014‑08‑04: Robot exoskeletons in Korean shipyards.
2014‑08‑04: Venn diagrams vs Euler diagram vs lolcircles.
2014‑08‑04: When "colourless green ideas sleep furiously" makes sense.
2014‑08‑04: Some universities are successful at drawing women to computer science.
2014‑08‑03: Your 'craft' whiskey is probably from a factory distillery in Indiana.
2014‑08‑03: Remy: computer-generated congestion control algorithms for TCP.
2014‑08‑03: theft: property-based testing for C.
2014‑08‑03: Breaking antivirus software.
2014‑08‑03: If all the ice melted: interactive map.
2014‑08‑03: "Theater" vs. "theatre": the great New York Times language swap.
2014‑08‑03: Police files reveal endemic corruption in the Met.
2014‑08‑03: Decentralization: I want to believe.
2014‑08‑03: The telehash protocol: secure decentralized overlay network.
2014‑08‑02: Cold War strategies are back, but now Russia is more like North Korea.
2014‑08‑02: Gerry Judah: amazing sculptures for the Goodwood festival of speed and elsewhere.
2014‑08‑02: European Commission consultation on copyright reveals chasm between views of public and publishers.
2014‑08‑02: Quantifying Comcast's monopoly power.
2014‑08‑02: Barriers faced by newcomers to open source projects: a systematic review.
2014‑08‑01: Learning how to think about computer system security after a breach.
2014‑08‑01: Middlebox vendors campaigning to kill multipath TCP.
2014‑08‑01: Private copying exception faces possible legal action from music industry.
2014‑08‑01: Why were CERT researchers attacking Tor?
2014‑08‑01: Seven habits of highly fraudulent users.
2014‑08‑01: The impossible music of black MIDI.
2014‑07‑31: Doctor delivers $1.2 billion blow to tobacco, and counting.
2014‑07‑31: Why local state is a fundamental primitive in stream processing.
2014‑07‑31: Debit card override hack.
2014‑07‑31: From Concorde to the iPhone, state intervention drives technological innovation.
2014‑07‑31: Errors by FBI forensic lab found in nearly every case that has been reviewed.
2014‑07‑31: Why many programmers don't bother joining the ACM.
2014‑07‑30: Podcasting patent troll fails to drop lawsuit against Adam Carolla.
2014‑07‑30: We now know how to get to the moon more efficiently than Apollo.
2014‑07‑30: Private copying: a new copyright exception in the UK.
2014‑07‑30: The Pirate Party: how downloading copyright material turned into a political movement.
2014‑07‑30: seL4 secure microkernel.
2014‑07‑29: The suburbs will die: sprawl is like a Ponzi scheme.
2014‑07‑29: Under-25s are better behaved than ever.
2014‑07‑29: Using category theory to design implicit conversions and generic operators.
2014‑07‑29: A MITM proxy for backdooring any Java libraries downloaded from Maven Central.
2014‑07‑28: Impossible engineering problems often aren't: timeseries processing by Scalyr.
2014‑07‑28: RISKS of digital key reproduction services.
2014‑07‑28: Gender decoder for job ads.
2014‑07‑28: BBC R&D test IP studio ultra-HD Commonwealth Games multicast over JANET.
2014‑07‑28: Alphabetical order explained in a mere 27,817 words.
2014‑07‑28: The gratuitous injustice of American tipping culture.
2014‑07‑28: What is 25 Gbit Ethernet and why would you want it?
2014‑07‑27: Repeal prohibition again, says the New York Times.
2014‑07‑27: Gay marriage went from unthinkable to inevitable.
2014‑07‑27: Councils can no longer exclude the press and public from their meetings.
2014‑07‑27: "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X.
2014‑07‑26: The typical US household is worth 1/3 less than 10 years ago.
2014‑07‑26: 400th anniversary of logarithms.
2014‑07‑26: A guaranteed income would eliminate poverty and it wouldn't destroy the economy.
2014‑07‑26: Better explained mathematical insights.
2014‑07‑25: How Marvel became the envy (and scourge) of Hollywood.
2014‑07‑25: The Apple backdoor that wasn't.
2014‑07‑25: The secret of Minecraft.
2014‑07‑25: Macroscopic quantum objects cannot exist if P≠NP.
2014‑07‑25: Government agents are directly involved in most US terrorism plots.
2014‑07‑25: Long-hidden photos reveal construction of Cambridge University Library.
2014‑07‑25: True Names.
2014‑07‑25: Hotel WiFi test.
2014‑07‑25: The network is reliable.
2014‑07‑24: After the trending: coping with sudden notoriety.
2014‑07‑24: What Is Public?
2014‑07‑24: IPFS: the permanent web.
2014‑07‑24: Apple confirms iOS back doors, and downplays their severity.
2014‑07‑24: Warwick University charges one of its professors with insubordination.
2014‑07‑24: Measuring IPv6 adoption.
2014‑07‑24: The Little Box Challenge: an open competition to build a much smaller power inverter.
2014‑07‑24: Authoritarianism and "social justice warriors".
2014‑07‑23: Wireless home alarms are easy to hack.
2014‑07‑23: Terminator 2 and the world's biggest spoiler.
2014‑07‑23: How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors.
2014‑07‑23: Metrics-driven development.
2014‑07‑23: Comcast reaches key milestone in launch of IPv6 broadband network.
2014‑07‑22: Ark: a real-world distributed consensus implementation.
2014‑07‑22: New material generates steam from the sun more efficiently.
2014‑07‑22: US ISPs argue that the public sector is unfairly cheaper and better.
2014‑07‑21: FTL: WebKit's fourth-tier LLVM-based JavaScript JIT.
2014‑07‑21: The modern bathroom is a wasteful unhealthy design.
2014‑07‑21: Domain Registry of America Inc. (NameJuice etc.) suspended by ICANN.
2014‑07‑21: A Lisper's first impression of Julia.
2014‑07‑19: Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices.
2014‑07‑18: How to link to specific lines of code on GitHub.
2014‑07‑18: Lettering with Lego.
2014‑07‑17: perl -le 'print(two + two == five ? "true" : "false")'
2014‑07‑17: Cryptocurrencies without proof of work.
2014‑07‑17: Perfect pilfering: how HFT rigs the market, examined from a data-centric approach.
2014‑07‑17: How the Bootstrap 3 grid works.
2014‑07‑16: GPS and relativity.
2014‑07‑16: How Cambridge University's public WiFi handled the Tour de France.
2014‑07‑16: Google+ drops its "real names" policy.
2014‑07‑15: gpg-edit-recpients: add or remove public-key encrypted session key packets without decrypting entire file.
2014‑07‑14: xxHash: extremely fast hash algorithm.
2014‑07‑14: Updates to X.509 certificate verification in Firefox. (95% code reduction!)
2014‑07‑14: NIST review of the Dual EC DRBG standardisation failure.
2014‑07‑14: A tu / vous flow chart for Bastille day.
2014‑07‑14: OCaml-TLS: the protocol implementation and mitigations to known attacks.
2014‑07‑14: Why Rust is called Rust.
2014‑07‑14: Rust for functional programmers.
2014‑07‑13: The user interface design trends that we love to hate.
2014‑07‑12: A more fundamental International System of Units.
2014‑07‑12: All the widgets: a history of GUIs. (Vimeo)
2014‑07‑12: Xplain: how X11 works (with in-browser demos).
2014‑07‑12: Performance pitfalls of object oriented programming.
2014‑07‑11: Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud.
2014‑07‑11: Disclosing Internet peering agreements creates anticompetitive risks.
2014‑07‑11: Does the UK's emergency DRIP data retention bill violate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
2014‑07‑11: Slay a nightmare, with science!
2014‑07‑10: Integrating dependent and linear types.
2014‑07‑10: Multicolour fonts and colorful typography on the web.
2014‑07‑10: Anti-patterns in Python programming.
2014‑07‑10: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1: vector glyphs not PNG.
2014‑07‑09: netresolve: non-blocking name resolution intended to replace NSS in glibc.
2014‑07‑09: USPTO grants two patents on the DNS.
2014‑07‑09: The value of a dangling pointer is indeterminate in C.
2014‑07‑09: Brave men take paternity leave: take-up snowballs after early adopters show the way.
2014‑07‑09: German BPjM-Modul Internet censorship URL blacklist leaked.
2014‑07‑08: OCaml-TLS demo server with interactive live protocol trace.
2014‑07‑08: Corrupt personalization: the dangers of the algorithmic social media bubble.
2014‑07‑08: The tail at scale: low latency distributed systems at Google.
2014‑07‑08: The return of Microsoft Office VBA macro viruses.
2014‑07‑08: Former head of MI6 says Islamic threats exaggerated by government and media.
2014‑07‑08: Alloy: a language and tool for analysing relational models.
2014‑07‑08: Web content security information leaks.
2014‑07‑08: Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA.
2014‑07‑07: Apple vs Google Unix wars.
2014‑07‑06: The Milgram experiment: a troubling feature of people who seem nice all the time.
2014‑07‑06: How the Tour de France is broadcast to the world.
2014‑07‑06: The significance of SIMD, SSE, and AVX.
2014‑07‑05: The Ceylon programming language.
2014‑07‑05: "Run," Bakri says. (short story)
2014‑07‑05: Validating the XKeyScore code leak.
2014‑07‑05: PyPy-STM is becoming a plausible GIL-less Python.
2014‑07‑05: How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed.
2014‑07‑05: Straight answers or slippery digressions? The art of the parliamentary written answer, in numbers.
2014‑07‑05: The march towards Golang.
2014‑07‑05: CSS is unnecessary given a layout language with means of abstraction and combination (e.g. Elm).
2014‑07‑04: Austrian economists, 9/11 truthers and brain worms.
2014‑07‑04: phpinfo() type confusion infoleak vulnerability and SSL private keys.
2014‑07‑04: BBC journalist being trained to stop inviting cranks on to provide false balance.
2014‑07‑04: The No-IP takedown: Microsoft doesn't understand DNS.
2014‑07‑04: Kafka: questioning the Lambda Architecture.
2014‑07‑03: US IRS policy targeting political groups also aimed at open source projects.
2014‑07‑03: An overview of the CHERI capability model: revisiting RISC in an age of risk.
2014‑07‑03: Region-based memory management in Cyclone.
2014‑07‑03: Toyota labs page on their free piston engine generator.
2014‑07‑03: Free piston engine research at Newcastle.
2014‑07‑03: Free piston engines
2014‑07‑03: Koenigsegg is developing a camless car engine.
2014‑07‑03: Tor exit node operator prosecuted in Austria.
2014‑07‑02: Toyota free piston engine linear generator: no crankshaft, fewer moving parts.
2014‑07‑02: How to give an academic talk.
2014‑07‑01: Dependently typed programming will (one day) rock your world.
2014‑07‑01: OpenSSL project roadmap.
2014‑07‑01: The lemon market in programming language adoption.
2014‑07‑01: Essential futurist SF.
2014‑07‑01: Golang is not good.
2014‑07‑01: Gregg shorthand: How to write 225 words per minute with a pen.
2014‑06‑30: DRM pods: can Keurig kill K-Cup coffee copy-cats?
2014‑06‑30: Microsoft seized 22 domains without reporting abuse problem to the provider first.
2014‑06‑30: Bitcrypt ransomware broken: 128 digit RSA key is not 1024 bits.
2014‑06‑30: Clang's memory model for static analysis of C programs.
2014‑06‑30: Developing with Nix.
2014‑06‑30: ByteArrayOutputStream is really slow at growing large objects in JDK6.
2014‑06‑30: emojli: the emoji-only network.
2014‑06‑30: SPEC2000 performance comparisons between gcc and llvm.
2014‑06‑30: The dark side of .io: ethnic cleansing by the UK to please the USA.
2014‑06‑30: Life of Pixel: a tribute to 8 bit gaming.
2014‑06‑30: Glitch: Programming with managed time.
2014‑06‑30: Half of all London car thefts use electronic hacking tools.
2014‑06‑30: The CHERI capability architecture: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk.
2014‑06‑30: Lightning protection and proper earth/grounding.
2014‑06‑30: Qubes for Windows? A failed attempt at strong process isolation.
2014‑06‑30: www.www.extra-www.org
2014‑06‑29: Legal pot in the US is crippling Mexican drug cartels.
2014‑06‑29: Incompatibilities and inconsistencies in the MS Office Open XML document format.
2014‑06‑29: Frax: fractal app for iOS.
2014‑06‑29: Why use www in website domain names?
2014‑06‑29: Ammonia/hydrogen breakthrough could be a game changer for vehicle fuel.
2014‑06‑29: The ghost in the MP3.
2014‑06‑29: Undefined behavior can result in time travel.
2014‑06‑28: POC || GTFO 0x04
2014‑06‑28: The Fermi paradox.
2014‑06‑28: Emoji get lost in translation.
2014‑06‑28: μg: free replacements for proprietary Google apps.
2014‑06‑28: Android without the Google mothership.
2014‑06‑28: Recovering SpaceX's Falcon 9 ocean landing video: how it was done.
2014‑06‑28: Migrating Instagram from AWS to FB: a NAT nightmare.
2014‑06‑28: Theranos: miniaturized fast blood diagnostics.
2014‑06‑28: Farewell to Tinderbox, the world's 1st? 2nd? continuous integration server.
2014‑06‑27: How Tory immigration rules discriminate against British children.
2014‑06‑27: Even sweatshops are getting automated.
2014‑06‑27: A less angry rainbow.
2014‑06‑27: How the rainbow color map misleads.
2014‑06‑27: Visualizing algorithms.
2014‑06‑27: Checkout github pull requests locally.
2014‑06‑27: "Merge pull request" considered harmful.
2014‑06‑27: Block randomized malware queries in your name server.
2014‑06‑27: UK scientific advisory committee on nutrition draft report on carbohydrates and health.
2014‑06‑27: Doctorow on Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century.
2014‑06‑26: Avalanche: a dynamic defect detection tool that generates "inputs of death".
2014‑06‑26: More on over-provisioning bandwidth and QoE problems.
2014‑06‑26: Governance for agile service delivery.
2014‑06‑26: V8 JavaScript optimization killers.
2014‑06‑26: The death of the Urdu script.
2014‑06‑25: Typographers' top typefaces.
2014‑06‑25: Breakthrough in solar panel manufacture promises cheap energy within a decade.
2014‑06‑25: What university libraries pay for academic journals.
2014‑06‑25: The Gunfighter. (Vimeo)
2014‑06‑25: Storing passwords in plaintext is a breach of the Australian Privacy Act.
2014‑06‑25: Rediscovered EDSAC diagrams reveal secrets of one of the earliest computer.
2014‑06‑25: Blinking text support for man pages.
2014‑06‑25: What space debris does to the Kevlar shielding protecting the international space station.
2014‑06‑25: Osama Bin Laden's seven rules for terrorists: ISIS ignore the al-Qaida leader's advice.
2014‑06‑25: The war on drugs is lost: legalise the heroin trade.
2014‑06‑25: The Scottish independence referendum can give hope to the Left across Britain.
2014‑06‑25: Alien vs coffee machine. (YouTube)
2014‑06‑25: Time transfer by observation of lightning strikes?
2014‑06‑25: How to make breaking changes and not break all the things.
2014‑06‑25: Houston, we have a copyright problem.
2014‑06‑24: How to modify ITIL to accommodate DevOps.
2014‑06‑24: Security of symmetric encryption against mass surveillance.
2014‑06‑24: An introduction to the Beaglebone PRU.
2014‑06‑24: All the major preconditions for revolution are present in the US and UK.
2014‑06‑24: Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic sperm extractor.
2014‑06‑24: Over-provisioning bandwidth does not solve quality-of-experience problems.
2014‑06‑24: Queueing in the Linux network stack.
2014‑06‑23: The Implicit Calculus: a new foundation for generic programming.
2014‑06‑23: Map of bankers in Europe earning €1 million or more.
2014‑06‑23: Introducing the vacuum transistor: a curious mash-up of vacuum tube and MOSFET.
2014‑06‑23: The race to the Tour de France start line: free public WiFi in Cambridge.
2014‑06‑23: Free public WiFi in Cambridge provided by the University and councils.
2014‑06‑23: Why the summer solstice isn't the start of summer.
2014‑06‑23: Announcing the FastMail calendar.
2014‑06‑23: On prejudice and cognitive biases.
2014‑06‑23: A Dutch perspective on protected intersections and cycle-friendly junction design.
2014‑06‑23: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services Annex.
2014‑06‑22: Ape molecules with a barrel of monkeys.
2014‑06‑22: Eigenmorality.
2014‑06‑22: College teaching in the US is no longer a middle-class job.
2014‑06‑21: C++ design goals related to Rust.
2014‑06‑21: The Egison programming language.
2014‑06‑21: I am sexist. Let's talk about how, why and what I'm doing about it.
2014‑06‑21: Union, intersection, refinement types, and type disjointness for secure protocol implementations.
2014‑06‑21: C++ Boost: calculating distances made difficult.
2014‑06‑21: Data sharing safe harbour deal with US referred to EU's top court.
2014‑06‑21: Google forced by Canadian court to e-forget a company worldwide.
2014‑06‑21: The amazing micro-engineered water-repelling surface that lives outside my window.
2014‑06‑21: What happened when we tried to publish a scientific paper investigating time travel.
2014‑06‑21: 8088 Domination post-mortem, Part 1.
2014‑06‑21: Cube Slam: behind the THREE.Scene().
2014‑06‑21: freshmeat.net, 1997-2014.
2014‑06‑21: Hardware and software stats from "The Setup" interviews.
2014‑06‑20: Videogrep: automatic supercuts with Python.
2014‑06‑20: DRM is how Amazon is holding Hachette hostage.
2014‑06‑20: Busted: elegant Lua unit testing.
2014‑06‑20: Janet Moonshot and FreeRADIUS on Microsoft Azure.
2014‑06‑20: Redwood Stone: gothic follies for your garden.
2014‑06‑20: A comparison of Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE.
2014‑06‑20: US Supreme Court unanimously strikes down abstract software patent.
2014‑06‑20: Presentations from the Dublin RINA workshop. (Interesting but very flawed.)
2014‑06‑19: RINA: Surviving networking's dark ages, or, how in hell do you lose a layer!?
2014‑06‑19: The abstinence method: Dutch farmers say no to antibiotics for livestock.
2014‑06‑19: AWS console breach leads to demise of code hosting service, despite their backup plan.
2014‑06‑19: The more CEOs are paid the worse they perform.
2014‑06‑18: UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents' Facebook and Google use.
2014‑06‑18: The Princess Bride sword fight: how does Thibault cancel out Capoferro?
2014‑06‑18: Viewstamped replication: a less-famous consensus protocol.
2014‑06‑18: The SSD endurance experiment: casualties on the way to a petabyte.
2014‑06‑18: Following the Linux /usr merge: factory reset and stateless / reproducible / verifiable systems.
2014‑06‑18: Jump consistent hash: a fast minimal-memory sharding algorithm.
2014‑06‑18: JavaScript sequence diagrams.
2014‑06‑18: Optimisation: The act of replacing something that works with something that almost works, but is cheaper. (Roger Needham)
2014‑06‑18: FlatBuffers: an efficient cross platform serialization library for C++ and Java.
2014‑06‑18: Use ImageMagick to clean up photographs of whiteboards.
2014‑06‑18: Web sequence diagrams.
2014‑06‑18: Towards energy proportionality for large-scale latency-critical workloads: how Google shaved 20% off search power consumption.
2014‑06‑18: An empirical study on bribing users to ignore security advice.
2014‑06‑18: Use of formal methods at Amazon Web Services.
2014‑06‑17: Unofficial DynASM documentation.
2014‑06‑17: 8088 Domination: video played by an IBM PC 5160. (YouTube)
2014‑06‑17: Fast money: the battle against the high frequency traders.
2014‑06‑17: Building roads makes traffic worse.
2014‑06‑17: The scientific way to cut a cake. (YouTube)
2014‑06‑17: Solar power at scale.
2014‑06‑17: A proposal for reforming private rental housing.
2014‑06‑17: We're losing all our strong female characters to Trinity Syndrome.
2014‑06‑17: How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians?
2014‑06‑17: The cosmic distance ladder.
2014‑06‑17: Preprint of paper proposing a global network of entangled atomic clocks.
2014‑06‑17: Theorists propose a global network of entangled atomic clocks.
2014‑06‑17: Plans for a Heath Robinson museum.
2014‑06‑17: A 52 page handbook to help determine if something is public domain.
2014‑06‑17: Numbers and the common-sense bypass.
2014‑06‑16: How to avoid the endless corridors at King's Cross St Pancras.
2014‑06‑16: Coding as the new literacy.
2014‑06‑16: Conan Doyle estate loses its copyright claim on public domain Sherlock Holmes stories.
2014‑06‑16: Inside Swift: differences from the Objective C runtime system.
2014‑06‑16: The largest black hole in the known universe.
2014‑06‑16: The true cost of hidden money / tax evasion.
2014‑06‑15: Green party peer put on database of domestic political extremists.
2014‑06‑14: Epidemic of whooping cough in California has caused two unnecessary deaths.
2014‑06‑14: Split Ticket: save money on train fares.
2014‑06‑14: Flavours of type theory: What we talk about when we talk about types.
2014‑06‑14: Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour.
2014‑06‑14: From parametricity to conservation laws, via Noether's Theorem. Type theory and fundamental physics.
2014‑06‑13: Cambridge May Bumps notes and fines from the Umpires.
2014‑06‑13: uutils: Unix commands / GNU coreutils rewritten in Rust.
2014‑06‑12: US military fail: long Asian land wars have been a route to disaster since 1963.
2014‑06‑12: Chromebooks as rack mounted build servers.
2014‑06‑10: Typed tagless final interpreters.
2014‑06‑10: There is no fork: an abstraction for efficient, concurrent, and concise data access.
2014‑06‑10: NeoLucida. (Vimeo)
2014‑06‑10: Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs.
2014‑06‑10: Welcome to the .uk - unless you're not in the UK.
2014‑06‑10: Watchmaking: The high-tech world of old-world watches.
2014‑06‑10: LGV Est track laying. (YouTube)
2014‑06‑10: Continuous welded rail.
2014‑06‑10: UK leap seconds policy review: findings from the public dialogue.
2014‑06‑09: How mistakes can save lives: an airline pilot's mission to revolutionise the NHS.
2014‑06‑09: Red Button attack allows over-the-air malware installation on smart TVs.
2014‑06‑09: Sumer is icumen in: The translation of "bucke uerteþ" is uncertain, but the current critical consensus is "the stag farts".
2014‑06‑09: Cambridge airport safety concerns.
2014‑06‑09: PyParallel: How we got Python to exploit all cores on Windows.
2014‑06‑09: The illusion of motion: frame rate, refresh rate, persistence, motion blur, etc.
2014‑06‑08: Whose entropy is it anyway? Part 1: Boltzmann, Shannon, and Gibbs.
2014‑06‑08: Murder Machines: how cars took over the streets of America.
2014‑06‑08: Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition fees.
2014‑06‑08: Napkin: Painlessly annotate images or create diagrams and share the results quickly.
2014‑06‑08: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is). (video)
2014‑06‑08: Conditional review acceptance policy: using peer review to promote open access to academic journals.
2014‑06‑08: Rendezvous hashing, an alternative to consistent hashing.
2014‑06‑08: A patent troll is on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue.
2014‑06‑08: How Foyles moved 500,000 books. (video)
2014‑06‑08: Michelangelo's David: a new perspective.
2014‑06‑08: HippyVM: a fast PHP implementation based on PyPy.
2014‑06‑08: The last line effect in copy-paste code.
2014‑06‑07: Tickets for restaurants.
2014‑06‑07: Python to OCaml retrospective.
2014‑06‑06: Speculative lock elision: enabling highly concurrent multithreaded execution.
2014‑06‑06: Better metaphors for cryptography: key, padlock, seal, imprint.
2014‑06‑06: Vannevar Bush: As We May Think. (1945)
2014‑06‑06: Eliminating inefficient cross-layer interactions in wireless networking.
2014‑06‑06: Network Rail confirms plans for restoring the Oxford to Bedford line.
2014‑06‑06: The battle of Midway: cryptanalysis and metadata.
2014‑06‑05: In defence of modern lexicography and dictionaries.
2014‑06‑05: OpenSSL ChangeCipherSpec vulnerability found by considering formal analysis of TLS protocol.
2014‑06‑05: The diggers buried in London's basement conversions.
2014‑06‑05: Cambridge was a probable nuclear target in the 1970s, but Oxford was not.
2014‑06‑05: Economic forecasting has an astonishing record of complete failure.
2014‑06‑04: All the dialogue from Star Wars in alphabetical order. (YouTube)
2014‑06‑04: David Graeber explains why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid.
2014‑06‑04: Akamai implements the DNS client-subnet extension.
2014‑06‑04: Mathematical symbols are not all created equal.
2014‑06‑04: DuckDuckGo will be a supported search provider in Safari.
2014‑06‑04: MicroPython: a lean and efficient implementation of (most of) Python 3.
2014‑06‑04: History and technology of reverse debugging.
2014‑06‑04: A look at Swift from the perspective of Rust.
2014‑06‑03: Abusing the algebra of algebraic data types: why does this work?
2014‑06‑03: The motivation for host name syntax checking in BIND was a workaround for a Sendmail security vulnerability.
2014‑06‑02: PMA: the packed memory array.
2014‑06‑01: An adaptive loosely packed-memory sorted array.
2014‑06‑01: Savage capitalism is back, and it will not tame itself.
2014‑06‑01: Women who were duped by undercover spies are back in court to challenge the police's delaying tactics.
2014‑06‑01: A critique of Debraj Ray's critique of Piketty's Capital in the 21s Century.
2014‑06‑01: Piketty's 'Second Law of Capitalism' vs. standard macro theory.
2014‑06‑01: Getty Images is trying to depict women less as dead-eyed props and more as real people.
2014‑06‑01: Git repository integrity with gpg-signed commits.
2014‑06‑01: Govia's plans for the Cambridge and Thameslink rail franchise.
2014‑06‑01: Pre-selected opt-in tickboxes do not count as consent to receive spam.
2014‑06‑01: What would math class look like if it were a fine art?
2014‑05‑31: A major upgrade to Haskell's attoparsec: more speed, more power.
2014‑05‑31: No more NXDOMAIN redirection to advert portal by OpenDNS.
2014‑05‑31: An-225 Mriya: pictures of the world's largest aircraft.
2014‑05‑31: Breakthrough in UK copyright law reform confirmed.
2014‑05‑31: Cree LED light bulb teardown.
2014‑05‑31: How LEDs are made.
2014‑05‑31: The makings of a great logo.
2014‑05‑31: Pinterest logo design notes.
2014‑05‑31: Taiwanese recycle symbol.
2014‑05‑30: US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers.
2014‑05‑30: Avoiding a war on unauthorized computation: the danger of exploit regulation.
2014‑05‑30: The dangers of obverse journalism.
2014‑05‑30: Drugs and prostitution add £10bn a year to UK economy.
2014‑05‑30: Britain is still feasting on credit, and the next crunch will hit in 2016.
2014‑05‑29: Newspapers: The most dangerous drug.
2014‑05‑29: Absolute Zero is 0K: a history of low temperature physics.
2014‑05‑29: Machines v. Lawyers.
2014‑05‑29: Be skeptical of both Piketty and his skeptics.
2014‑05‑29: Logo trends of 2014.
2014‑05‑29: Amazon v Hachette: don't believe the spin.
2014‑05‑28: Stop buying load balancers and control your traffic flow with software instead.
2014‑05‑28: Tower Hamlets: London's rotten borough?
2014‑05‑28: Microsoft PowerShell's Monad Manifesto.
2014‑05‑28: You shouldn't use a spreadsheet for important work. For example, Piketty.
2014‑05‑27: Logical fallacies that should exist.
2014‑05‑27: Reconsidering generic composition of crypto primitives: when encrypt-then-MAC fails.
2014‑05‑27: Reasons for not using mmap().
2014‑05‑27: How the patent trolls won in Congress.
2014‑05‑27: End mass incarceration now.
2014‑05‑27: Whitewood under siege: white vs blue pallets.
2014‑05‑26: The best way to win an argument.
2014‑05‑26: Improving the security of your SSH private key files with PKCS#8.
2014‑05‑26: Simple, fast, and practical non-blocking and blocking concurrent queue algorithms.
2014‑05‑25: The science of Bruce Lee's one inch punch.
2014‑05‑25: The insecurity of password expiration: it is easy for attackers to guess the user's next password.
2014‑05‑25: Supreme Court of the US quietly edits decisions after publication, sometimes substantively.
2014‑05‑25: Kill the hamburger three-line menu button.
2014‑05‑25: Why online communities decay over time.
2014‑05‑24: The diamond market is no longer controlled by De Beers.
2014‑05‑24: Tsunami or sea change? Responding to the explosion of student interest in computer science.
2014‑05‑24: Words matter, even in code.
2014‑05‑24: sysdig: Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.
2014‑05‑24: How SSL 3.1 came to be called TLS 1.0.
2014‑05‑24: When will patent trolls learn not to mess with Newegg?
2014‑05‑24: Tracedump captures all TCP and UDP packets of a single Linux process.
2014‑05‑24: Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying.
2014‑05‑24: BPF: Linux's universal in-kernel virtual machine.
2014‑05‑24: Dynamic packet filter: fast flexible demultiplexing.
2014‑05‑24: Mach packet filter: efficient demultiplexing for multiple endpoints and large messages.
2014‑05‑24: libpcap: an architecture and optimization methodology for packet capture.
2014‑05‑24: BPF: Berkeley packet filter bytecode in action at Cloudflare.
2014‑05‑23: Write-down of two-thirds of US shale oil explodes fracking hopes.
2014‑05‑23: Teach your children to argue.
2014‑05‑23: A short guide to Capital in the 21st Century.
2014‑05‑23: Facebook's product director is furious at Facebook's effect on news.
2014‑05‑23: miniBAE: software MIDI synth.
2014‑05‑23: Former BP geologist says peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'
2014‑05‑22: Why did GCHQ target such weird laptop components for destruction at the Guardian?
2014‑05‑22: Erlang intentional code style.
2014‑05‑22: Congestion control (lack of) before Van Jacobson.
2014‑05‑22: Interoperability scoring rules for the second TCP bake-off, April 1980.
2014‑05‑22: Interoperability scoring rules for the first TCP bake-off, January 1979.
2014‑05‑22: Twenty questions for Donald Knuth.
2014‑05‑22: JavaScript-injected "async scripts" considered harmful.
2014‑05‑21: On the future of MetaFilter.
2014‑05‑21: Clochure is an educated attempt to solve Clojure's number one problem.
2014‑05‑21: Use inet_pton() when possible to avoid bloat and bugs in getaddrinfo().
2014‑05‑21: UK National Rail Enquiries real-time train location database will provide free access.
2014‑05‑21: Longitude prize 2014: nothing to do with longitude except for a big anniversary.
2014‑05‑21: When AES(☢) = ☠ : encrypting a valid JPG so it yields a valid JPG.
2014‑05‑21: Ladar Levison's story of how he was forced to shut down Lavabit.
2014‑05‑21: You're probably using the wrong dictionary.
2014‑05‑20: Censors killed the weird, experimental, progressive golden age of comics.
2014‑05‑20: What would a UKIP of the left actually look like?
2014‑05‑20: Why do people persist in believing things that just aren't true?
2014‑05‑20: Van Jacobson's pearls of wisdom about TCP. (1987-1993)
2014‑05‑20: Consultation on ac.uk domain name policy.
2014‑05‑20: Ghost signs in London.
2014‑05‑19: Hungary and the end of politics.
2014‑05‑19: Mouthbreathing Machiavellis dream of a silicon Reich: Bay Area fascism.com.
2014‑05‑19: OpenStreetMap now has data for car navigation.
2014‑05‑19: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?
2014‑05‑19: Solar-powered mosquito larvae killer.
2014‑05‑19: The Mezzo programming language.
2014‑05‑19: Type soundness and race freedom for Mezzo.
2014‑05‑19: Did the NSA help kill UWB?
2014‑05‑18: Old computer horror stories, folklore, and anecdotes from Usenet.
2014‑05‑18: Everyone should know just how much the US government lied to defend the NSA.
2014‑05‑18: Led Zeppelin is being sued for copyright infringement in Stairway to Heaven.
2014‑05‑18: Hate mail barrage reveals climate disinformation's true colours.
2014‑05‑18: Researchers who provided key evidence for gluten sensitivity have shown they were wrong.
2014‑05‑18: Practical tmux.
2014‑05‑18: Net neutrality: local governments choke broadband competition.
2014‑05‑17: A DNS router for sharding large zones.
2014‑05‑17: What does 1#J mean? C# tries to round infinity when printing.
2014‑05‑17: The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age.
2014‑05‑17: What do animals see in a mirror?
2014‑05‑17: Emory.edu: A Windows 7 deployment image accidently overwrote all Windows machines.
2014‑05‑17: Vernam, Mauborgne, and Friedman: the one-time pad and the index of coincidence.
2014‑05‑17: Crypto won't save you.
2014‑05‑16: The multiple SQLite problem.
2014‑05‑16: Independent report on the insecurity of e-voting in Estonia.
2014‑05‑16: 'The Problem With Music' has been solved by the Internet.
2014‑05‑16: More Mac OS command line utils.
2014‑05‑16: Command line utilities that Unix users need to know on Mac OS.
2014‑05‑15: A time-travelling debugger for the Elm programming language.
2014‑05‑15: On following rules.
2014‑05‑15: Octotree: extensions for various browsers to improve file hierarchy views on GitHub.
2014‑05‑15: Falsehoods programmers believe about 8 categories of things.
2014‑05‑15: Ten articles every programmer shoud read.
2014‑05‑15: Compacting garbage collection with ambiguous roots.
2014‑05‑15: Introducing the WebKit FTL LLVM-based JIT.
2014‑05‑14: The decline and fall of BIND 10.
2014‑05‑14: Does the Firefox DRM architecture give non-sandbox code access to the decrypted media?
2014‑05‑14: SIGGRAPH 2014 papers.
2014‑05‑14: SIGGRAPH 2014 technical papers preview. (YouTube)
2014‑05‑14: RIPE68 DNS services update.
2014‑05‑14: ISPs in New Zealand must register their staff and get network changes approved with the GCSB spy agency.
2014‑05‑14: iMessage purgatory.
2014‑05‑13: ANPR and mass surveillance of transport: a British export.
2014‑05‑13: How to use your "no award" vote in the Hugo ballots.
2014‑05‑13: Dutch spend €220m on bike racks and it is still not enough.
2014‑05‑13: DevOps Against Humanity.
2014‑05‑13: What's so scary about smart girls?
2014‑05‑13: Your surname doesn't match your child's? Good luck at border control.
2014‑05‑12: West Antarctic ice sheet has started to collapse.
2014‑05‑12: High Court slams HMRC for unlawfully concealing information about export of spyware FinFisher.
2014‑05‑12: The NSA tampers with US-made internet routers during shipping.
2014‑05‑12: Significant portion of HTTPS web connections made by forged certificates.
2014‑05‑12: DNS flood of 25 million requests per second: when anti-DDoS services attack.
2014‑05‑12: Drawing the Eurotunnel: publication-quality graphics in 1987.
2014‑05‑12: The mystery of Go, the ancient game computers still can't win.
2014‑05‑12: git concepts simplified.
2014‑05‑12: GitHub training resources.
2014‑05‑12: DNSSEC outages.
2014‑05‑11: The Oracle of Bacon.
2014‑05‑11: Early superoptimizer results: Csmith + Souper + LLVM.
2014‑05‑11: DUMB.domains, if you need help thinking of them.
2014‑05‑11: Zonemaster: combined rewrite of DNSCheck and Zonecheck.
2014‑05‑11: cpthook is a git hook manager.
2014‑05‑11: Why Python is slow: looking under the hood.
2014‑05‑11: jsfmt: enforce JavaScript style.
2014‑05‑11: ClangFormat: enforce C/C++/ObjC style.
2014‑05‑10: git man page generator.
2014‑05‑10: British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows.
2014‑05‑10: The war on some drugs is over. Drugs won.
2014‑05‑10: Hindsight: it's not just for past events. Examine possible failures with a premortem.
2014‑05‑10: Shackleton's ad: really the manliest thing in the history of manly manliness?
2014‑05‑10: HFT: the backlash continues.
2014‑05‑10: The court that created the patent troll mess is screwing up copyright too.
2014‑05‑10: 40 maps that explain the Middle East.
2014‑05‑10: How Munich switched 15000 desktops from Windows to Linux.
2014‑05‑10: Searching logs at 20 GB/sec with carefully engineered brute force.
2014‑05‑10: White House supports CC0 for US federal government datasets.
2014‑05‑10: Honeybees abandoning hives and dying due to neonicotinoid insecticide use, research finds.
2014‑05‑09: The operating system: should there be one? The Smalltalk in Unix.
2014‑05‑09: Oracle wins copyright ruling against Google over Android Java APIs.
2014‑05‑09: The logic of Buddhist philosophy.
2014‑05‑09: Software inspection and the Heartbleed bug.
2014‑05‑08: Post-mortem analysis of a Linux honeypot using sysdig.
2014‑05‑08: American executioners: untrained, incompetent, and "complete idiots".
2014‑05‑08: Nanotrusting nanotime: the remarkable pitfalls in measuring time on modern computers.
2014‑05‑07: Golygons and golyhedra.
2014‑05‑07: IBM Java SecureRandom is very weak.
2014‑05‑07: The return of Upcoming.org.
2014‑05‑07: A post-Snowden chilling effect observed in Google search data.
2014‑05‑07: On properly packaging perl.
2014‑05‑07: Viennese mazes: what they are, and how to make one.
2014‑05‑07: Crash optimization for self-driving cars: what do you hit when you can't stop in time?
2014‑05‑07: Same-sex marriages and coats of arms.
2014‑05‑06: PyPy.js now faster than CPython.
2014‑05‑06: Some of the sundials in Cambridgeshire.
2014‑05‑06: New analemmatic sundial on Jesus Green.
2014‑05‑06: Greenwich Meridian markers in the UK: an interactive map.
2014‑05‑06: An Arabic programming language: قلب
2014‑05‑05: CLOStrophobia: its etiology and treatment.
2014‑05‑05: Teaching mathematics at high school: graph theory.
2014‑05‑05: Predator vs Jeeves.
2014‑05‑05: Jeeves and the singularity.
2014‑05‑05: Chinese number websites: the meanings of numeric URLs.
2014‑05‑04: Why the UK has a high child mortality rate.
2014‑05‑04: U2 flies too high and fast for air traffic control computers, shutting down LAX.
2014‑05‑04: Our manifesto for Europe, by Thomas Piketty and others.
2014‑05‑04: An analysis of Facebook photo caching.
2014‑05‑03: Common LibreSSL porting mistakes.
2014‑05‑03: Some famous unit conversion errors.
2014‑05‑03: Systemantics and the fundamental failure mode theorem.
2014‑05‑02: Proposed enhancements to Java for small immutable identityless value types.
2014‑05‑02: Operation Cotton and the 23 pages which skewered the government's legal aid reforms.
2014‑05‑02: Butler Lampson's hints for computer system design.
2014‑05‑02: Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers.
2014‑05‑02: What have we learnt in 20 years of L4 microkernels?
2014‑05‑01: An experimental study of TLS forward secrecy deployments: 83% use weak DH params.
2014‑05‑01: Some papers about garbage collection.
2014‑05‑01: Dark Google will earn its money by knowing, manipulating, controlling reality and cutting it into the tiniest pieces.
2014‑05‑01: 50th anniversary of BASIC and, more important, computer literacy courses.
2014‑05‑01: Baby we were born to RUN: celebrating 50 years of BASIC.
2014‑05‑01: Leap seconds: the UK public dialogue.
2014‑05‑01: Google is trying out IBM POWER8 CPUs.
2014‑05‑01: Burying the URL: location bar becomes a write-only field in latest Google Chrome.
2014‑05‑01: Celebrating 50 years of BASIC.
2014‑05‑01: What's new in Mercurial 3.0.
2014‑04‑30: List processing in real time on a serial computer.
2014‑04‑30: A few notes on book design.
2014‑04‑30: The people who saw evolution in action.
2014‑04‑30: Behind the scenes of Cards Against Humanity's PWNMEAL prank at PAX East.
2014‑04‑30: What is a photocopier? A reconstruction of a court deposition. (Video)
2014‑04‑29: Fifty years of BASIC, the programming language that made computers personal.
2014‑04‑29: Safe shell-like sub-commands and pipelines in Julia.
2014‑04‑29: The hackers who recovered NASA's lost lunar photos.
2014‑04‑29: Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages.
2014‑04‑29: Sweden's great welfare heist.
2014‑04‑28: Not All Men: a brief history of every dude's favorite argument.
2014‑04‑28: BGP stats up to the end of 2013.
2014‑04‑28: Internet passes 500,000 address prefixes.
2014‑04‑28: OpenSSL: The Internet is being protected by two guys named Steve.
2014‑04‑28: Omnibus: a word for all.
2014‑04‑28: NetBSD filesystem drivers compiled to Javascript and run in browser.
2014‑04‑28: Highly available transactions: virtues and limitations.
2014‑04‑28: Spot the question.
2014‑04‑27: Fred Brownell: The man who made South Africa's flag.
2014‑04‑27: Nigel Farage is a phoney. Scrutinise him and he'll crumble. Don't expect the BBC to.
2014‑04‑27: Rollin' Wild: what if animals were round?
2014‑04‑27: The curse of the excluded middle: mostly-functional programming does not work.
2014‑04‑27: Old aerial photos of Britain.
2014‑04‑27: 101 illustrated mathematical analysis bedtime stories: epsilon red riding hood.
2014‑04‑27: $10,000 security bug bounty for Mozilla's new certificate verification code.
2014‑04‑27: What's your Honeywell bubble count?
2014‑04‑27: Bras in Space: Playtex and the Apollo spacesuits.
2014‑04‑27: The twelve-factor app.
2014‑04‑27: Golang frequent comments from code reviews.
2014‑04‑27: Golang best practices for production environments.
2014‑04‑27: Stanford allows fewer classes of character in longer passwords.
2014‑04‑27: Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust.
2014‑04‑27: Bicycle-friendly cobblestones.
2014‑04‑27: Groningen: cycling city.
2014‑04‑26: The Kindle wink to Neal Stephenson.
2014‑04‑25: It is insanely easy to hack hospital equipment.
2014‑04‑25: Amazon's Glacier secret: BDXL.
2014‑04‑25: F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) re-released under Apache 2.0.
2014‑04‑25: 11 simple truths from Buddhism.
2014‑04‑25: Google to end forced G+ integration, drastically cut division resources.
2014‑04‑25: Hasklig: Ligatures for Haskell code.
2014‑04‑24: 64-bit ARM emulation status in QEMU 2.0.0.
2014‑04‑24: Andreas Gal is the new CTO of Mozilla.
2014‑04‑24: Boycott systemd.
2014‑04‑24: Kea: ISC continuing to develop the DHCP server part of the BIND 10 project.
2014‑04‑24: Microsoft OneDrive for Business quietly modifies the files it syncs.
2014‑04‑24: Elsevier journals: some facts.
2014‑04‑24: Deadlines and the IT industry: Y2K, XP, IPv4, ...
2014‑04‑24: Projecting images onto scent-filled bubbles.
2014‑04‑24: Factcheck: Are we really getting less violent?
2014‑04‑24: Using automatic language analysis to apply the Bechdel test to movie scripts and conversations on Twitter.
2014‑04‑24: A reappraisal of validation in the RPKI.
2014‑04‑23: How strtod() works (and sometimes doesn't).
2014‑04‑23: Humans replacing robots at Toyota, to learn how to improve their manufacturing processes.
2014‑04‑23: "Sell me this pen:" The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street's challenge.
2014‑04‑23: Link-time optimization in gcc: compiling Firefox.
2014‑04‑23: Link-time optimization in gcc: a brief history.
2014‑04‑23: ISC stops work on BIND-10, and renames the orphaned code to Bundy.
2014‑04‑23: AOL follows Yahoo! in setting DMARC p=reject. Death of mailing lists to follow.
2014‑04‑23: Causal consistency: don't settle for eventual consistency.
2014‑04‑23: Gogs: git repository hosting implemented in Golang.
2014‑04‑23: Gitblit: git repository hosting implemented in Java.
2014‑04‑22: NIST belatedly removes Dual_EC_DRBG from its recommendations.
2014‑04‑22: Copyright is out of control
2014‑04‑22: First completed trial ends with total loss for patent troll Intellectual Ventures.
2014‑04‑22: Economic policy in a post-Piketty world.
2014‑04‑22: Macmillan's Trident sell-out is a vital lesson for Scotland.
2014‑04‑22: Leap seconds: a public dialogue in the UK.
2014‑04‑22: After every crash in the Netherlands, intense scrutiny.
2014‑04‑22: The case for formal verification.
2014‑04‑22: Tiny Docker images with musl libc and no package manager.
2014‑04‑22: Lead poisoning and Rome.
2014‑04‑21: This guy's revolutionary idea for a sign for gender neutral toilets.
2014‑04‑21: High frequency rentseeking: when 3ms is worth $300 million.
2014‑04‑21: Fighting McDonald's to end gendered Happy Meal toys.
2014‑04‑21: Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
2014‑04‑21: How to do UPSERT in Postgres.
2014‑04‑21: Home entertainment implementations are pretty appaling: region-free DVD by hacking embedded Linux.
2014‑04‑20: TrueType Instruction Compiler: compile a C-like language into a font file.
2014‑04‑20: Java: real class names or Markov chain fakes?
2014‑04‑20: Easter Hack: RSA padding bugs in Java's SSL/TLS implementation.
2014‑04‑20: More on Apple and OpenSSL.
2014‑04‑20: How to exploit home routers for anonymity.
2014‑04‑20: Patents, greed, and the Wright Brothers.
2014‑04‑20: Fairy tales in password hashing with scrypt.
2014‑04‑19: The problems of high frequency trading.
2014‑04‑19: How Apple dodged the Heartbleed bullet.
2014‑04‑19: Filesystem namespaces in Plan 9 and Inferno.
2014‑04‑19: Where to find stock photos that don't suck.
2014‑04‑19: You don't read code, you explore it.
2014‑04‑19: Linux /dev/urandom and (lack of) concurrency.
2014‑04‑19: Hi-LAB: A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life.
2014‑04‑19: A bit of XENIX history.
2014‑04‑19: America is an oligarchy not a democracy.
2014‑04‑17: Why are diamonds clear, but coal black?
2014‑04‑17: OpenSSL Valhalla rampage.
2014‑04‑17: Proving and quantifying institutional sexism.
2014‑04‑17: The arrow of time is caused by quantum entanglement.
2014‑04‑16: Performance effects of architectural complexity in the i432.
2014‑04‑16: Barrelfish research OS architecture overview.
2014‑04‑16: Das Kapital for the Twenty-First Century? A review of Thomas Piketty's new book by James K. Galbraith.
2014‑04‑16: Powers of ten for clocks.
2014‑04‑16: The graffiti drone: an interview with KATSU.
2014‑04‑16: Confessions of a full-stack DevOps coder.
2014‑04‑16: Diffie-Hellman and TLS with nonsense parameters: 15 is a prime number?
2014‑04‑16: A summary of Golang's flaws.
2014‑04‑16: Quantiles on streams.
2014‑04‑16: How it took 10 years to publish the Boyer-Moore MJRTY algorithm.
2014‑04‑16: Valve publishes detailed Steam game usage data on its community profile pages.
2014‑04‑16: Data skeletons: simultaneous estimation of multiple quantiles for massive streaming datasets with applications to density estimation.
2014‑04‑16: The P^2 algorithm for dynamic calculation of quantiles and histograms without storing observations.
2014‑04‑16: Shuffle Sharding: massive and magical fault isolation.
2014‑04‑16: A new metric for Internet performance.
2014‑04‑15: Raising a moral child.
2014‑04‑15: Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world. (Thomas Piketty)
2014‑04‑15: Shared Space and other bad junction designs lead to crashes and injuries.
2014‑04‑15: Heartbleed disclosure timeline.
2014‑04‑15: Did a date calculation bug cost the Co-op Bank £110m?
2014‑04‑15: A better way to enfoorce anti-harassment policies than zero tolerance.
2014‑04‑15: MEPs approve rules for safer lorry designs in EU.
2014‑04‑15: The lock-picking controversy of 1851.
2014‑04‑15: The MIT lockpicking guide.
2014‑04‑15: GitHub cheat sheet.
2014‑04‑15: The benefits of EU membership have been underestimated.
2014‑04‑15: America, Afghanistan and opium: Ten billion wasted in the war on some drugs.
2014‑04‑15: More on Akamai's flawed secure allocation patch.
2014‑04‑14: Sarah Wollaston asks: Why am I being blamed for the Nigel Evans sex case?
2014‑04‑14: Akamai secure allocation patch failed to protect all private key components from Heartbleed.
2014‑04‑14: UK trying to block US Senate report on torture.
2014‑04‑14: sayI: trusted user authentication at Internet scale; efficient PKI.
2014‑04‑14: Stalled SCP and hanging TCP connections: stupid middlebox breaks SACK.
2014‑04‑14: Why Varnish does not support TLS.
2014‑04‑14: Untie the mavericks: the stifling effect of peer review.
2014‑04‑14: Apple claims Mogenerator's methods / lack of namespacing in Objective C.
2014‑04‑14: Timekeeping in VMWare virtual machines.
2014‑04‑13: The perils of dynamic scope.
2014‑04‑13: The OpenSSL Foundation: of money, responsibility, and pride.
2014‑04‑13: Egg: a culinary exploration of the most versatile ingredient.
2014‑04‑13: Private keys should be isolated from server processes.
2014‑04‑13: How does Akamai's "secure heap" patch to OpenSSL work?
2014‑04‑13: Rise of the right: eurosceptics and teapartiers, cross-Atlantic extremism.
2014‑04‑13: Interrogate: a proof-of-concept tool for identification of cryptographic keys in binary data.
2014‑04‑13: Transcribing piano rolls with Python.
2014‑04‑13: Project Pluto: nuclear-powered ramjet.
2014‑04‑13: Seven cylinders that each touch all the others.
2014‑04‑12: Recreating the THX deep note.
2014‑04‑12: What if the moon were a disco ball? (YouTube)
2014‑04‑12: Why you hate Comic Sans.
2014‑04‑12: Visual explanations of mathematical concepts.
2014‑04‑12: The username is a relic. Here's how to fix it.
2014‑04‑12: Menstruation: What is the evolutionary or biological purpose of having periods?
2014‑04‑12: Google finds centralized control, distributed data architectures work better than fully decentralized systems.
2014‑04‑12: How Walter Bright came to write D.
2014‑04‑12: Ants build complex structures with a few simple rules.
2014‑04‑12: Comic Neue: polishing a turd.
2014‑04‑12: When two-factor authentication is not enough.
2014‑04‑12: Is the Oculus Rift sexist?
2014‑04‑11: Looking for Tom Lehrer, comedy's mysterious genius.
2014‑04‑11: What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma.
2014‑04‑05: The Study of Anglophysics. (A short story.)
2014‑04‑05: Google lifts the veil on its "Andromeda" virtual networking.
2014‑04‑04: FAQ: The "snake fight" portion of your thesis defense.
2014‑04‑04: Hacked Prius runs on SF Muni trolleybus power lines.
2014‑04‑04: Blizzard: fast, cloud-scale block storage for cloud-oblivious applications.
2014‑04‑04: Hackers are using ssh tunnels to send spam.
2014‑04‑04: NIST launches new time standard: NIST-F2 caesium fountain atomic clock.
2014‑04‑03: Better database index performance with Roaring Bitmaps.
2014‑04‑03: 11 hour GLONASS outage due to bad ephemerides upload.
2014‑04‑03: Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy.
2014‑04‑03: The Supercombiner, a peculiar Unicode smoke-test.
2014‑04‑03: Using routers to build logic circuits: BGP is Turing complete.
2014‑04‑03: The dollar-and-cents case against Hollywood's exclusion of women.
2014‑04‑03: Writing code that runs on Python 2 and 3.
2014‑04‑02: Bad governance in the civil service: short-term jobs and no operational expertise.
2014‑04‑02: The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies.
2014‑04‑02: Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog.
2014‑04‑02: Stand-up comics who steal jokes can face escalating repercussions.
2014‑04‑01: Generational GC has landed in Mozilla.
2014‑04‑01: US stock markets are rigged to the advantage of HFT.
2014‑03‑31: Treat benchmarks like you're a scientist.
2014‑03‑31: Microsoft's C compiler sometimes embeds IE.
2014‑03‑31: Apple's A7 Cyclone 64 bit ARM microarchitecture.
2014‑03‑31: On the practical exploitability of Dual EC DRBG in TLS implementations.
2014‑03‑31: NSA revelations 'changing how businesses store sensitive data'.
2014‑03‑31: Refactoring with LZ77: compression is compilation?
2014‑03‑31: HEFCE-funded research to be open access from 2016.
2014‑03‑31: Oxford flood network. "The Internet of Things sometimes involves laying in duck shit."
2014‑03‑31: Flat white vs latte.
2014‑03‑31: Class hierarchies? Don't do that!
2014‑03‑31: Labour party proposes to start charging separately for healthcare.
2014‑03‑31: Abstract ideas don't deserve patents.
2014‑03‑31: Coffee and its effects on feature creep: a Starbucks shopping list chat bot that turned into a banking system.
2014‑03‑30: UK copyright reforms will allow content-mining, parody and much more.
2014‑03‑30: UK will finally allow people to legally rip CDs.
2014‑03‑30: 25 microchips that shook the world.
2014‑03‑30: Under the Hood: warp, a fast C and C++ preprocessor.
2014‑03‑29: Password hashing security in 1Password.
2014‑03‑29: The true costs of automobility: external costs of cars.
2014‑03‑29: Cambridge cycle route plans on Hills Road and Huntingdon Road.
2014‑03‑29: Six ways the UK still doesn't have full marriage equality.
2014‑03‑29: How to remove gender bias from the hiring process.
2014‑03‑29: Where everyone in the world is migrating, in one gorgeous chart.
2014‑03‑29: Revamped parallel web page layout in Mozilla Servo.
2014‑03‑28: The Mill: a new VLIW CPU. It might just work!
2014‑03‑28: We may have witnessed an NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action.
2014‑03‑28: Forces of divergence: Is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?
2014‑03‑27: Introducing rr, Mozilla's record/replay debugger.
2014‑03‑27: ASCII history and control codes.
2014‑03‑27: The evolution of character codes, 1874-1968.
2014‑03‑27: Prototype BeagleBone Black cape with Adafruit Ultimate GPS board and device tree overlay file.
2014‑03‑27: NSRC DNS+DNSSEC workshop.
2014‑03‑26: Butter is back.
2014‑03‑26: What is the first story featuring time travel to the past.
2014‑03‑26: Fourier transforms for dummies.
2014‑03‑26: ANTLR4 ALL(*) parsing: the power of dynamic analysis.
2014‑03‑25: What it's like to use Haskell instead of PHP.
2014‑03‑25: How to mass-produce pasta spirals.
2014‑03‑25: A history and evaluation of System R, an experimental relational database.
2014‑03‑25: Brogrammers might not be macho, but that's not all there is to it.
2014‑03‑25: The misguided freakout over the US DoC relinquishing its oversight of ICANN.
2014‑03‑25: You might be prosecuted for reading Islamist websites in the UK.
2014‑03‑25: Germans try to get their tongues around gender-neutral language.
2014‑03‑25: The making of neon signs in Hong Kong. (YouTube)
2014‑03‑24: When did finger-tenting, or steepling, become a symbol of evil?
2014‑03‑24: Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word under active attack.
2014‑03‑24: Diagram showing relationships between probability distributions.
2014‑03‑24: WTF, HTML and CSS? A list of commonly frustrating HTML and CSS quandaries, miscues, and dilemmas.
2014‑03‑24: Two places with similar urban/college populations: the one with more immigrants produces more notable people.
2014‑03‑24: California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints.
2014‑03‑23: DNA double take: bodies often contain multiple distinct genomes.
2014‑03‑23: Almost everything you've been told about unhealthy foods is wrong.
2014‑03‑23: How to design an elliptic-curve signature system.
2014‑03‑23: This 8-year-old girl's shredding will melt your face.
2014‑03‑23: Internet censorship is 21st century book burning.
2014‑03‑23: Sinkhole of bureaucracy: the unautomated process behind US federal employee retirement.
2014‑03‑23: Carbon fibre 3D printer.
2014‑03‑23: The Europe Tories hate no longer exists.
2014‑03‑23: ATM operators eye Linux as replacement for Windows XP.
2014‑03‑23: Another stolen generation: Australia is breaking up Aboriginal families faster than ever.
2014‑03‑23: deFUDing "DNSSEC has failed".
2014‑03‑22: C++11 FQA anyone? With observations of C++ culture.
2014‑03‑22: Berkeley researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes.
2014‑03‑22: The world's most valuable cannabis business is growing in a sleepy corner of England.
2014‑03‑22: A new kind of playground offers freedom to overprotected kids.
2014‑03‑22: DNS requests from port 0 lead to weird errors.
2014‑03‑22: The only 8 software innovations we actually use.
2014‑03‑22: BLAKE2: "harder, better, faster, stronger" than MD5.
2014‑03‑22: Why writing firmware is kinda like software exploitation.
2014‑03‑22: Oops. The fly in the IANA internationalization ointment.
2014‑03‑22: Scribe, the Guardian's in-browser extensible rich text editor.
2014‑03‑21: The road to IPv6 at Facebook.
2014‑03‑21: Serious vulnerabilities in ASUS routers, requiring manual firmware update to fix.
2014‑03‑21: About that time Google spied on Michael Arrington's Gmail.
2014‑03‑21: Brian Krebs the Movie?!
2014‑03‑21: Inside the NSA's secret efforts to hunt and hack system administrators.
2014‑03‑21: GCHQ via Theresa May warns Yahoo that its move to Dublin is a security worry.
2014‑03‑21: Recommendations for DNSSEC deployment.
2014‑03‑21: 8- to 10-year-old kids do science and write a paper about the vision of bees.
2014‑03‑21: Many homophobes do not believe in the existence of straight people.
2014‑03‑21: US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists.
2014‑03‑21: Youth subcultures: what are they now?
2014‑03‑20: The story behind the Rob Ford story: defamation law and the press in Canada.
2014‑03‑20: UCL open letter complains about racist sexist Daily Mail.
2014‑03‑20: Timezone fun at Troll, a Norwegian Antarctic station.
2014‑03‑20: DNS for massive-scale botnet command and control.
2014‑03‑20: Backblaze Storage Pod 4.0.
2014‑03‑19: How do you know if a random number generator is working?
2014‑03‑19: Git is now using sane three-component semantic version numbers.
2014‑03‑19: NIST is planning to privatise its NTP service.
2014‑03‑18: The #node.js IRC channel policy on trolling.
2014‑03‑18: Reproducibility in computer systems research.
2014‑03‑18: On your permanent record: Anonymity, pseudonymity, and ephemerality.
2014‑03‑17: The BBC's rightwing bias.
2014‑03‑17: Trying out TLS for http:// URLs.
2014‑03‑17: Art of the luggage label.
2014‑03‑17: Physicists, Generals and CEOs agree: ditch the PowerPoint.
2014‑03‑17: Popcorn Time is back, because it is open source.
2014‑03‑17: Target ignored intrusion detection alerts that could have prevented their massive credit card breach.
2014‑03‑17: Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?
2014‑03‑17: Half of UK government now outsourced under hopelessly bad secret contracts.
2014‑03‑17: Record accessors and mutators in the Frege programming language.
2014‑03‑16: Intro to type programming in Scala.
2014‑03‑16: London firm at centre of hack redirecting DNS of 300,000 home gateways.
2014‑03‑16: Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven't seen in 700 years.
2014‑03‑16: In the US, where income is lower, life spans are reducing.
2014‑03‑16: Follow-up on 4K TVs for programmers.
2014‑03‑16: The slow death of Silicon Roundabout.
2014‑03‑15: How corporations are crippling U.S. prosperity.
2014‑03‑15: Why Atom can't replace Vim. 1976 was a good year for text editors.
2014‑03‑15: The infinite lives of BitTorrent.
2014‑03‑15: FastMail's Cyrus server architecture, and a failure recovery report.
2014‑03‑14: A 100-year-old emergency water supply put out a fire in San Francisco this week.
2014‑03‑14: Partial/incomplete git import of X consortium historical RCS up to X11R6.0
2014‑03‑14: Some dumb DNS forwarders are vulnerable to trivial unspoofed cache poisoning attacks.
2014‑03‑14: The parable of Google Flu: traps in big data analysis.
2014‑03‑14: Post-publication peer review works better.
2014‑03‑14: Cefaly: TENS migrane preventing space tiara.
2014‑03‑14: 162,000+ WordPress sites used for pingback DDoS attack.
2014‑03‑13: Samsung Galaxy devices have a backdoor allowing filesystem access from the baseband processor.
2014‑03‑13: Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() kernel PRNG.
2014‑03‑13: Nine amazing facts about English social history that will blow your mind!
2014‑03‑13: Free and common socage, as of the manor of East Greenwich in Kent.
2014‑03‑12: Is Popcorn Time really immune from copyright liability?
2014‑03‑11: How to eat your entropy and have it too: optimal recovery strategies for compromised random number generators.
2014‑03‑11: Agile is dead. Long live agility.
2014‑03‑11: Linux's disk write bufferbloat fsync() woes are getting some attention.
2014‑03‑10: No, Americans are not all to blame for the financial crisis: exposing the big lie of the post-crash economy.
2014‑03‑10: An overview of projects working on next-generation secure email.
2014‑03‑10: LINQ for C++
2014‑03‑10: A visit to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
2014‑03‑10: Startup myths and obsessions.
2014‑03‑10: George Osborne wants a smaller state; economist Mariana Mazzucato argues instead that forward-thinking public spending is crucial for a creative, prosperous society.
2014‑03‑10: America's university system is getting destroyed: faculty are increasingly hired on the Wal-Mart model as temps.
2014‑03‑10: We are all intelligence officers now.
2014‑03‑10: The forty-year slump: the declining value of work since 1974.
2014‑03‑10: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game: 30th anniversary edition.
2014‑03‑10: Stealing Bitcoins from wallets with weak addresses.
2014‑03‑09: Determinism is not enough: making parallel programs reliable with stable multithreading.
2014‑03‑09: Alan Adler, the inventor of the Aerobie and AeroPress.
2014‑03‑09: Myths about /dev/urandom
2014‑03‑08: The Temple Operating System: a simple single-user unprotected x86-64 OS.
2014‑03‑07: Propositions as types: the Curry/Howard isomorphism.
2014‑03‑07: What every C programmer should know about undefined behaviour.
2014‑03‑07: Treating inequality with redistribution: is the cure worse than the disease?
2014‑03‑06: Creating software for sysops: make sure you do not suck.
2014‑03‑05: In Mario Kart you don't get blue shells or lightning bolts when you're already in first place.
2014‑03‑05: Using OpenSSH certificate authentication.
2014‑03‑05: The story of the GnuTLS bug.
2014‑03‑05: European ccTLD news, with a piece on DNSSEC.
2014‑03‑05: Readable code and named values.
2014‑03‑04: fuzzdb: the most comprehensive Open Source database of malicious and malformed input test cases.
2014‑03‑04: Thoughts on style, TLS, and errors.
2014‑03‑04: A roadmap for globalizing IANA.
2014‑03‑04: The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary.
2014‑03‑04: TLS triple handshake vulnerability.
2014‑03‑03: Downloading PuTTY safely is nearly impossible.
2014‑03‑03: What most likely happened to MtGox.
2014‑03‑03: What did not happen at Mt. Gox.
2014‑03‑02: Star in a bottle: a profile of ITER.
2014‑03‑02: The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power.
2014‑03‑02: Root DNSSEC witnesses plus quorate secure time.
2014‑03‑02: How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation: a conversation with Sydney Brenner.
2014‑03‑02: The sound of drawing swords.
2014‑03‑01: A brief history of one line security fixes.
2014‑03‑01: Delve deep into DNSSEC with BIND 9.10.
2014‑03‑01: Why Sweden has so few road deaths.
2014‑03‑01: What is a root DNSSEC key ceremony like?
2014‑03‑01: A birthday present from Broadcom: open source VideoCore IV drivers.
2014‑03‑01: "DNS Experiment Concludes", a classic from the 1st April 2001.
2014‑03‑01: An open letter to Erik Voorhees: when markets fail to punish bad actors effectively.
2014‑03‑01: British public is far to the left of the Labour Party.
2014‑03‑01: How Steve Perlman's "revolutionary" wireless technology works - and why it I s a bigger deal than anyone realizes.
2014‑02‑28: Linux IPv6 route cache is too small by default.
2014‑02‑28: DNSSEC in Windows Server 2012.
2014‑02‑28: To close or not to close: void elements in HTML.
2014‑02‑27: Error handling in ICU: avoiding goto fail.
2014‑02‑27: Row polymorphism is not subtyping.
2014‑02‑26: Servo: Mozilla's effort to reinvent the web browser for the multi-core age.
2014‑02‑25: How to safely generate a random number.
2014‑02‑25: Paramount does a DMCA takedown on @555uHz two-frames-per-hour Top Gun Twitter account.
2014‑02‑25: Stunning brilliant demo of the Wolfram Language.
2014‑02‑25: An ssh server written in PHP for MtGox.
2014‑02‑25: The unlikely tale of how ARM came to rule the world.
2014‑02‑25: Springer and IEEE withdraw more than 120 computer-generated papers.
2014‑02‑24: How to get a busy person to respond to your email.
2014‑02‑24: Apple's TLS backdoor is so lame that the Internet has an opinion about it.
2014‑02‑24: Most winning A/B test results are illusory.
2014‑02‑24: Inside the Netflix/Comcast deal and what the media is getting very wrong.
2014‑02‑24: Secure salted password hashing: how to do it properly.
2014‑02‑23: John Yudkin: sugar's spurned prophet.
2014‑02‑23: Netflix will pay Comcast for direct peering.
2014‑02‑23: Why systemd is winning the init wars.
2014‑02‑23: Junction design in the Netherlands.
2014‑02‑23: X can now run without root privilege on OpenBSD.
2014‑02‑23: Running Mac OS X as a QEMU/KVM guest.
2014‑02‑23: Learning from Apple's #gotofail security bug.
2014‑02‑23: Rope clock.
2014‑02‑23: The very hungry rust monster.
2014‑02‑23: Radiation-hardened Ruby quine (with link to a Perl version).
2014‑02‑22: A look back at "security problems in the TCP/IP protocol suite" fifteen years later.
2014‑02‑22: Why you should deploy DNSSEC.
2014‑02‑22: Apple's TLS bug.
2014‑02‑21: Cryptographic obfuscation and "unhackable" software.
2014‑02‑21: The part where I hack my Github graph.
2014‑02‑21: git-fat: a simple way to handle large files with git.
2014‑02‑21: Cannabis tax revenue and spending plans in Colorado.
2014‑02‑21: Emscripten LLVM "fascomp" backend.
2014‑02‑21: Old arctic ice is melting and taking the rest of the ice with it.
2014‑02‑20: Difference between standard time and solar time around the world.
2014‑02‑20: Scaling WhatsApp to millions of simultaneous connections.
2014‑02‑20: Don't let shoulder-surfers video password entry on public transport.
2014‑02‑20: Progress decoding the Voynich manuscript.
2014‑02‑19: Botnet C&C over DNS.
2014‑02‑19: DNS server activity logging on Windows.
2014‑02‑19: London population growth: how quickly will Crossrail's new trains fill up?
2014‑02‑18: How the Guardian successfully moved to a new unified domain name.
2014‑02‑18: 5 surprisingly painful things about client-side JavaScript.
2014‑02‑18: A comprehensive study of convergent and commutative replicated data types.
2014‑02‑18: Locating London's past: scrolly zoomy historical maps.
2014‑02‑18: Using Scala will make you less productive.
2014‑02‑18: Cambridge is at the heart of Britain's economic recovery.
2014‑02‑18: Trace-based just-in-time compilation for lazy functional programming languages.
2014‑02‑17: A lot of water coming our way.
2014‑02‑17: Kids, phones and routing around parental restrictions.
2014‑02‑16: Why collisions don't occur between cyclists on Simultaneous Green junctions.
2014‑02‑16: The public voice of women.
2014‑02‑15: Germany's great university tuition fee U-turn.
2014‑02‑15: The museum of copulatory organs.
2014‑02‑15: In Germany, house prices keep falling, because that's what they're supposed to do.
2014‑02‑15: European Court of Justice declares that linking does not infringe copyright.
2014‑02‑15: The French way of cancer treatment.
2014‑02‑14: Python script to play Radio 4 slightly slower in order to skip over the Archers.
2014‑02‑14: Met Office briefing on the recent storms and floods in the UK.
2014‑02‑14: Technical details behind a 400Gbps NTP amplification DDoS attack.
2014‑02‑14: On the origin of fuck. (Featuring a prominent Ely.)
2014‑02‑13: JavaScript/CSS3 rail station departure board split-flap display.
2014‑02‑13: How to manipulate who pays IP-over-X.25 traffic charges.
2014‑02‑13: Random numbers only once.
2014‑02‑13: Linux's leap second deadlocks.
2014‑02‑12: Julia: a fast dynamic language for technical computing.
2014‑02‑12: Why is eBay making life easy for bike thieves?
2014‑02‑12: Klackity klack: a keyboard scoring system.
2014‑02‑10: Evaluating the design of the R language.
2014‑02‑10: Outdated, outmoded and increasingly inaccurate: is it time follow our European neighbours and say goodbye to "Miss"?
2014‑02‑10: French journalist fined €3000 for "hacking" government website using Google and wget.
2014‑02‑09: UDP-based amplification attacks.
2014‑02‑09: Broken by design: systemd.
2014‑02‑09: 1000x faster spelling correction algorithm.
2014‑02‑08: High speed trading isn't about efficiency: it's about cheating.
2014‑02‑08: Backdoor found in Energizer Duo USB battery charger.
2014‑02‑08: The Snowden era of journalism.
2014‑02‑08: The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield.
2014‑02‑08: The bedroom tax has been significantly restricted by the courts.
2014‑02‑08: json-pull: a streaming JSON pull parser in C.
2014‑02‑08: Cisco wins case against wifi patent troll Innovatio.
2014‑02‑08: Introduction to the Mill CPU programming model.
2014‑02‑08: Flexible array members and struct padding.
2014‑02‑08: The art of software security assessment: C language issues.
2014‑02‑08: How to dump an info document to your pager.
2014‑02‑07: Transport and Health Study Group letter to the Advertising Standards Agency about cycle helmets.
2014‑02‑07: Simple dynamic strings for C. (A part of Redis.)
2014‑02‑07: RoboCop: wanted for serious crimes against cinema.
2014‑02‑07: ICANN registrar agreement is incompatible with EU data protection law.
2014‑02‑07: How to use indistinguishability obfuscation: deniable encryption, and more.
2014‑02‑07: That NBC story about getting hacked in Sochi is bullshit.
2014‑02‑06: Neil Gaiman on the designer's job.
2014‑02‑06: Large scale DNS redirection on home routers for financial theft.
2014‑02‑06: Rate-limiting state: the edge of the Internet is an unruly place. (Vixie on BCP38)
2014‑02‑06: What if Earth were a torus instead of a sphere?
2014‑02‑06: UK charities take second place to domain squatters in Nominet's flattened .uk namespace.
2014‑02‑06: Little's Law, scalability and fault tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck. What can you do?
2014‑02‑06: Assertions are pessimistic; assumptions are optimistic.
2014‑02‑05: The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares.
2014‑02‑05: Verizon using recent Net Neutrality victory to wage war against Netflix by throttling AWS.
2014‑02‑05: Entropy attacks!
2014‑02‑05: Storing ASCII art in the DNS.
2014‑02‑05: A breakthrough in secure program obfuscation.
2014‑02‑04: UK national grid status dashboard.
2014‑02‑04: Jenga: a build system in OCaml.
2014‑02‑04: Assertions and Frama-C.
2014‑02‑04: Emotionally palatable criticism.
2014‑02‑04: How to accidentally be a jerk on Twitter, and how to resolve it.
2014‑02‑04: NIST continues using SHA-1 algorithm after banning it.
2014‑02‑04: Blackfriars bridge is covered in solar panels.
2014‑02‑04: Thinking in animation frames: tuning Google Chrome for 60 Hz.
2014‑02‑04: Useful discussion of Mozilla Persona.
2014‑02‑04: Why we love Mozilla Persona. And why you should, too.
2014‑02‑03: Optimal system activity logging.
2014‑02‑03: Minimizing unreproducible bugs.
2014‑02‑03: A US court is poised to hand spooks the keys to the Internet.
2014‑02‑03: Data structures are strange things: comparing tree implementations in Erlang.
2014‑02‑03: Streets outside Guardian US office and staff homes suddenly dug up on the night of the first Snowden story.
2014‑02‑03: Meet Julia, the one programming language to rule them all.
2014‑02‑03: Support for secure transfer of DNSSEC signed domains in .nl (Dutch)
2014‑02‑03: Animations of a perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack.
2014‑02‑03: What is it about the Lib Dems and Sci Fi?
2014‑02‑03: 10 things we forgot to monitor.
2014‑02‑03: Fuzzers love assertions.
2014‑02‑03: New books will not be compatible with old Adobe e-reader DRM from July.
2014‑02‑03: LED there be light! Now better than fluorescent tubes.
2014‑02‑03: It wasn't Yahoo that was hacked: consequences of password database leaks.
2014‑02‑03: Regehr on assertions.
2014‑02‑01: The typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2014‑02‑01: Enforcing Murphy's Law for advance identification of run-time failures, using syscall gremlins.
2014‑02‑01: We know little about the effect of diet on health. That's why so much is written about it.
2014‑01‑31: What are you playing at? Lift the flaps to flip the gender stereotypes.
2014‑01‑31: The ObjectStore database system. (1991)
2014‑01‑31: California regulator seeks to shut down "learn to code" bootcamps.
2014‑01‑31: Demographics of housing in Cambridge.
2014‑01‑31: When your account is the target of a cloud service spear phishing attack.
2014‑01‑30: An empirical investication into programming language syntax.
2014‑01‑30: EU has secret plan for police to "remote stop" cars. (Fun for autosec hackers!)
2014‑01‑30: OpenSSH 6.5 release announcement.
2014‑01‑30: Nine things to expect from HTTP/2.
2014‑01‑29: The Labour case for electoral reform in local government.
2014‑01‑29: An open letter to Baroness Howe from Andrews and Arnold, on Internet censorship.
2014‑01‑29: Budget and average annual costs of snow removal operations in Montreal.
2014‑01‑29: Stanford NetDB.
2014‑01‑29: "Quoth" the raven? The heartwarming tale of a defective verb.
2014‑01‑29: Open Dylan calls for help.
2014‑01‑28: What type of machine is the C preprocessor?
2014‑01‑28: Analysis of the OpenSSL random API.
2014‑01‑28: There's only four billion floats, so test them all!
2014‑01‑28: A spam cartoon.
2014‑01‑28: sex.py: safe-extract is a Python script that unpacks compressed archives (tarballs etc.) safely.
2014‑01‑28: Dutch ISPs do not have to implement DNS or IP copyright censorship because it is disproportionate and/or ineffecive.
2014‑01‑28: Some simple unix commands implemented in sed.
2014‑01‑27: The descent to C.
2014‑01‑27: How the UK GDS uses git and github.
2014‑01‑27: Sky UK Internet censorship breaks jquery.
2014‑01‑27: Not with a bang, but with a whimper: trademark dispute over gaijin.com.
2014‑01‑27: In memory of Roger Bucklesby, who hated this park and everyone in it.
2014‑01‑27: Model Boeing 777 paper plane project.
2014‑01‑27: Free software maintenance: adding features (or not).
2014‑01‑27: The Third Way... make the third generation pay. (1999)
2014‑01‑27: Map of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks.
2014‑01‑27: Why sugar helped remove the Victoria Line cement flood.
2014‑01‑26: Automatically entering the grand C++ error explosion competition.
2014‑01‑26: Results of the grand C++ error explosion competition.
2014‑01‑26: 2014: The year of CSV.
2014‑01‑26: Secret papers show extent of senior royals' veto over British legislation.
2014‑01‑26: Randomized practice schedules improve mental engagement and subsequent performance.
2014‑01‑26: Decentralized trustworthiness measures and certificate pinning; hash mining Zooko's triangle.
2014‑01‑25: Making GIFs from video files with Python.
2014‑01‑25: Six misunderstandings about consensus in distributed systems.
2014‑01‑25: Did this Tor developer become a victim of the NSA's laptop interception program?
2014‑01‑25: Why patriarchy fears the scissors: for women, short hair is a political statement.
2014‑01‑25: Google Chrome moving from NSS to OpenSSL.
2014‑01‑25: Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x.
2014‑01‑24: And the Academy Award goes to... a literate program!
2014‑01‑24: The dirty secret behind ball lightning is dirt.
2014‑01‑24: Gay couple threaten to sue UK government over converting civil partnership to marriage.
2014‑01‑24: The monkeys in 2013: Firefox's JavaScript work.
2014‑01‑24: The R inferno: If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you.
2014‑01‑24: File IO in Rust.
2014‑01‑23: Notes on the history of graph paper.
2014‑01‑23: Almost everything in "Dr Strangelove" was true.
2014‑01‑23: What is so great about the Julia programming language.
2014‑01‑23: UKIP are true libertarians.
2014‑01‑23: SSL/TLS survey of the Alexa top 1,000,000 web sites.
2014‑01‑23: Block cipher mode failures.
2014‑01‑23: "Spoiled onions" perform MitM attacks against the Tor network.
2014‑01‑23: Microsoft's platform-of-the-week and the loss of developer trust.
2014‑01‑23: Emacs strip tease.
2014‑01‑23: XSugar: dual syntax for XML languages.
2014‑01‑23: XML attack vectors.
2014‑01‑23: Researcher gets $33k bug bounty for snatching the password file from a Facebook server.
2014‑01‑23: Supernova in Messier 82 discovered by UCL students.
2014‑01‑23: Chesterton's fence.
2014‑01‑23: Network Solutions WebLock program will be opt-in not opt-out.
2014‑01‑22: A closer look at the best password managers.
2014‑01‑22: JSCert: a mechanised specification of JavaScript, using the Coq proof assistant.
2014‑01‑22: Division algebras and wireless communication.
2014‑01‑22: 8086tiny: a tiny PC emulator/virtual machine.
2014‑01‑22: The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4: new gTLDs.
2014‑01‑22: Domain name analysis: lengths, ngrams, etc.
2014‑01‑22: The Tab compares Cambridge college wine bills to outreach spending.
2014‑01‑22: NTP relflections.
2014‑01‑22: Brython: Python 3 running in the browser.
2014‑01‑21: Backblaze on HDD reliability.
2014‑01‑21: Network Solutions tries to increase cost of two domain names by $1,850.
2014‑01‑21: The effect of today's technology on tomorrow's jobs will be immense—and no country is ready for it.
2014‑01‑21: Teensy USB development board.
2014‑01‑21: analemma.c
2014‑01‑21: Tom Van Baak on the equation of time and driving quartz clock stepper motors.
2014‑01‑21: Top-down operator precedence (Pratt) parsing.
2014‑01‑21: An electro-mechanical VLF radio receiver.
2014‑01‑21: Equation clocks, that show apparent solar time.
2014‑01‑21: UCAS and the extent of FOIA: tribunal favours a wide approach.
2014‑01‑21: Financial conflicts of interest and reporting bias regarding the association between sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain.
2014‑01‑20: Linux 3.13 release highlights.
2014‑01‑20: Google vs Intellectual Ventures in landmark patent troll trial.
2014‑01‑20: Useful perl one-liners.
2014‑01‑20: In search of National Grid reference OV0000.
2014‑01‑20: Magnetic north is on the move again.
2014‑01‑20: A big step towards generational compacting garbage collection in Firefox.
2014‑01‑19: Guile uses ELF for its bytecode file format and DWARF for bytecode debugging info.
2014‑01‑19: What happens when the poor receive a stipend?
2014‑01‑19: Ed25519 key format variants.
2014‑01‑19: Twister: P2P microblogging. (home page)
2014‑01‑19: Twister: a p2p microblogging platform, based on bitcoin, bittorrent, and DHTs.
2014‑01‑18: The 5 best punctuation marks in literature.
2014‑01‑18: Vi Hart on logarithms.
2014‑01‑18: Why programming needs explicit state.
2014‑01‑18: Pachelbel's canon.
2014‑01‑18: Yale students made a better version of their course catalogue. Then Yale shut it down.
2014‑01‑17: Why an intelligent Scot would vote for independence.
2014‑01‑17: Scientific errors in the European tobacco products directive.
2014‑01‑17: Experimenting at scale with Google Chrome's SSL warning to reduce the click-through rate.
2014‑01‑17: Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside "next-gen" filesystems btrfs and ZFS.
2014‑01‑16: Time Warp prevents Time Machine from deleting important backup snapshots.
2014‑01‑16: Review of Nominet's .uk registration policy. (How could a domain name be a sex crime?!)
2014‑01‑16: Happy 25th birthday to Tcl.
2014‑01‑16: Good fun with bad crypto: Citrix CTX1 password encoding.
2014‑01‑15: The science of Boston's great molasses flood of 1919.
2014‑01‑15: DNS hijacking with just one mail.
2014‑01‑15: OSv: a new operating system designed to execute a single application on top of a hypervisor.
2014‑01‑15: Mathematical purity in distributed systems: CRDTs without fear.
2014‑01‑15: Use the mean absolute deviation instead of the standard deviation.
2014‑01‑15: Intrepid modder builds Hackintosh Mac Pro replica inside a real trashcan.
2014‑01‑15: An experimental study of sorting and branch prediction.
2014‑01‑15: How to complain about mobile internet over-blocking.
2014‑01‑15: 40 more maps that explain the world.
2014‑01‑14: How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the fly.
2014‑01‑14: Transactional mutex locks.
2014‑01‑14: The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS.
2014‑01‑14: Man poses as woman on online dating site; barely lasts two hours.
2014‑01‑14: Firefox asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance.
2014‑01‑14: A 30 minute introduction to Rust.
2014‑01‑13: The state of Rust 0.9.
2014‑01‑13: Comparing filesystem performance in virtual machines.
2014‑01‑13: A personal history of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux Castle.
2014‑01‑13: The Sinclair QL is 30 years old.
2014‑01‑13: Elliptic curve cryptography in practice.
2014‑01‑12: The essence of Reynolds.
2014‑01‑12: Brussels contemplates going car-free.
2014‑01‑12: Boys are born to prefer dolls over masculine toys like cars.
2014‑01‑12: GLO: print on to flow-in-the-dark paint with UV LEDs.
2014‑01‑11: 1983-1993: the wonder years of sequential Prolog implementation.
2014‑01‑11: A fishy chat with Sainsbury's.
2014‑01‑11: Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow.
2014‑01‑11: Building an open source laptop.
2014‑01‑11: Implementing a JIT compiler with Haskell and LLVM.
2014‑01‑11: HTTP/2 considerations and tradeoffs.
2014‑01‑10: Extracts from the coffee club diary.
2014‑01‑10: Malicious use of the HTML5 vibrate API.
2014‑01‑10: Carte Blanche: a social experiment with cloned blank credit cards.
2014‑01‑10: An appraisal of the utility of a chocolate teapot.
2014‑01‑10: City of London Police cannot seize domains just because Hollywood says the websites are infringing.
2014‑01‑10: How useless is a chocolate teapot?
2014‑01‑10: Understanding and mitigating NTP-based DDoS amplification attacks.
2014‑01‑09: Detailed London Underground track map.
2014‑01‑09: Software in 2014.
2014‑01‑08: Typox: urban typography in and around Oxford.
2014‑01‑08: Chaps is a PKCS #11 implementation that provides TPM-backed cryptographic services for Chrome OS.
2014‑01‑08: UK postcodes geographical data service.
2014‑01‑08: Mapping high-level programming language constructs to LLVM IR.
2014‑01‑07: The icosahedron and the pentagon-hexagon-decagon identity.
2014‑01‑07: Lyra: password key derivation based on the sponge construction.
2014‑01‑07: Knot DNS 1.4.0 released with support for automatic DNSSEC signing.
2014‑01‑07: More about Unicode in Python 2 and 3.
2014‑01‑06: Optimising Haskell for a tight inner loop.
2014‑01‑06: Edelweiss: automatic storage reclamation for distributed programming.
2014‑01‑06: Mythryl: a fork of SML/NJ.
2014‑01‑06: Sightsmap: a map of the most popular locations for photography.
2014‑01‑06: What is new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?
2014‑01‑06: sedsed: a sed script debugger and prettifier.
2014‑01‑06: Hexaflexagon cushions.
2014‑01‑06: DNSSEC infrastructure audit framework.
2014‑01‑06: Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come.
2014‑01‑06: Windows portability shim for snprintf().
2014‑01‑06: Top Hollywood movies that passed the Bechdel Test earned more in 2013.
2014‑01‑06: Backpack: retrofitting Haskell with interfaces.
2014‑01‑06: Anatomy of a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter.
2014‑01‑05: Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain.
2014‑01‑05: Much more than you wanted to know about marijuana.
2014‑01‑05: Pluralistic ignorance: the self-reinforcing cycle of false belief.
2014‑01‑05: Why we should give free money to everyone.
2014‑01‑05: How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses.
2014‑01‑05: 23% of global electricity generation is supplied by renewable sources.
2014‑01‑04: Inception: memory manipulation and hacking over FireWire.
2014‑01‑04: Reverse engineering a bank's secure authentication app.
2014‑01‑04: Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients.
2014‑01‑04: Ori: a secure distributed file system.
2014‑01‑03: Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did.
2014‑01‑02: Times, dates, and computers: this way lies madness.
2014‑01‑02: bzr: a retrospective.
2014‑01‑02: Creating a rogue CA certificate. (2008)
2014‑01‑01: DUAL_EC_DRBG backdoor proof-of-concept.
2014‑01‑01: Welcome to the hardware jungle, in the twilight of Moore's law.
2014‑01‑01: The financial crisis: Why have no high-level executives been prosecuted?