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• 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?