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<< 2014-07 >>

• 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.