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• 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?