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• 2017-09-30: What's In the Cache? DNS cache hit rates.
• 2017-09-30: Cache effect of shared DNS resolver.
• 2017-09-30: BotDigger: Detecting DGA bots in a single network using DNS traffic.
• 2017-09-30: Bad autoconf tests with nested functions are incompatible with clang.
• 2017-09-30: Why are Nazis so afraid of clowns?
• 2017-09-30: RFC 7706 vs RFC 8198 for root DNS zone performance and resilience.
• 2017-09-30: A look at RFC 8145 DNSSEC trust anchor signalling.
• 2017-09-30: BIND 9.12 refactoring and performance improvements.
• 2017-09-29: The pragmatic case for moving Britain's capital to Manchester.
• 2017-09-29: Serving 100 Gbps from a Netflix FreeBSD Open Connect Appliance.
• 2017-09-29: What happened to the folding UK plug?
• 2017-09-28: Identifying satellite interference due to GSM rebroadcast.
• 2017-09-28: DNS for service discovery in HAProxy.
• 2017-09-28: Background information on the DNSSEC root key rollover postponement.
• 2017-09-28: We need to talk about TLS session tickets.
• 2017-09-28: When filters fail: These cases show we can't trust algorithms to clean up the internet.
• 2017-09-28: How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations.
• 2017-09-28: DNSSEC KSK rollover postponed.
• 2017-09-28: HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!
• 2017-09-28: Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors. Here's a new theory why.
• 2017-09-28: detect.location: getting iOS location data via photo EXIF access.
• 2017-09-28: Software is a long con.
• 2017-09-28: ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit.
• 2017-09-27: Ed25519 for DNSSEC.
• 2017-09-27: Flags are not languages.
• 2017-09-27: git git git git git
• 2017-09-27: BOOMv2: an open-source out-of-order RISC V core.
• 2017-09-27: Feminism, equality, chattels, and judgement.
• 2017-09-27: The history of Sears predicts almost everything Amazon is doing.
• 2017-09-26: Comparing differential equation solvers in C, Fortran, Julia, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, and R.
• 2017-09-26: Cloudflare Geo Key Manager: identity-based encryption for private keys in a TLS CDN.
• 2017-09-26: cloudflare/bn256 implements a particular bilinear group at the 128-bit security level, ~10x or ~20x faster.
• 2017-09-25: Mathematics and the state of being stuck.
• 2017-09-25: Org-mode is one of the most reasonable lightweight markup languages.
• 2017-09-25: A quick introduction to Graphviz.
• 2017-09-25: Antifragility 101.
• 2017-09-24: The Canpaign for North Africa: a notorious board game that takes 1,500 hours to complete.
• 2017-09-24: Branded in memory: how well can people draw a logo from memory?
• 2017-09-23: Franchise: an open source in-browser SQL notebook.
• 2017-09-23: lnav: a log file navigator.
• 2017-09-23: APFS: a backup software developer's perspective.
• 2017-09-23: GPS without COCOM limits.
• 2017-09-23: Super-accurate GPS chips coming to smartphones in 2018.
• 2017-09-22: How Portugal is winning the War on Drugs that the USA is losing.
• 2017-09-22: API Monitor: spy on Windows API calls and COM interfaces.
• 2017-09-22: Time to speak up for Article 15 of the E-commerce Directive.
• 2017-09-22: How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk.
• 2017-09-22: Implementing Berkeley sockets in System V release 4.
• 2017-09-22: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason": a simulation.
• 2017-09-22: Seveneves and the Roche limit.
• 2017-09-22: Golang: Ten years and climbing.
• 2017-09-21: Weather forecasting is better than it's ever been.
• 2017-09-21: The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces, whose penises do not grow until puberty.
• 2017-09-21: Locks, Little's Law, and the universal scalability law.
• 2017-09-21: Effects without monads: non-determinism.
• 2017-09-21: CLKSCREW: attacking ARM TrustZone using security-oblivious energy management.
• 2017-09-21: Parents, children, CDS/CDNSKEY records, and dnssec-cds.
• 2017-09-21: Booleans and enums.
• 2017-09-21: Measuring the security of closed DNS resolvers by probing via SMTP.
• 2017-09-20: jwz: "HTML email, was that your fault?"
• 2017-09-21: Inception drive: a compact, infinitely variable transmission for robotics.
• 2017-09-21: Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's control center doesn't actually turn them off.
• 2017-09-20: Clocks and hardware design for software engineers.
• 2017-09-20: A rare peek inside a 400Gbit/s Cisco network processor.
• 2017-09-20: Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?
• 2017-09-20: Allocation efficiency in high-performance Golang services.
• 2017-09-20: A longitudinal, end-to-end view of the DNSSEC ecosystem.
• 2017-09-20: Evolution of data structures in Yandex.Metrica.
• 2017-09-19: Why Keccak is not ARX.
• 2017-09-19: Fuzzing Tales 0x01: Yadifa DNS.
• 2017-09-19: Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing to India, China, and the Philippines.
• 2017-09-19: Undercover police operation to catch close-pass overtaking reduced cyclist casualties by 20%.
• 2017-09-19: To type or not to type: 15% of JavaScript bugs detectable by TypeScript or Flow.
• 2017-09-19: Simple Set game proof stuns mathematicians, leading to advances in combinatorics.
• 2017-09-19: An efficient academic journal.
• 2017-09-18: Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
• 2017-09-18: The future of HHVM, Facebook's fast PHPish runtime.
• 2017-09-18: Optionsbleed: HTTP OPTIONS method can leak a misconfigured Apache server's memory.
• 2017-09-17: Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system.
• 2017-09-17: ptexplore: Linux process page table explorer.
• 2017-09-17: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach to academic journals.
• 2017-09-16: Interview with Martha Wells about the second Murderbot book.
• 2017-09-17: Root causes of TLS certificate errors for Google Chrome users.
• 2017-09-16: The week my husband left and my house was burgled I secured a grant to begin the BRCA1 project.
• 2017-09-16: The Minskytron: early graphics demos on an in-browser PDP-1 emulator.
• 2017-09-16: The Minsky circle algorithm.
• 2017-09-16: proptest: Hypothesis-style property testing for Rust.
• 2017-09-16: ZARM: the Bremen microgravity drop tower.
• 2017-09-16: A working game of Tetris implemented in Conway's Game of Life.
• 2017-09-16: How not to land a SpaceX orbital rocket booster. (YouTube)
• 2017-09-16: LoRa backscatter: data transmission over >400m using <10μW.
• 2017-09-16: A translation of the Polari in "Putting on the Dish".
• 2017-09-16: A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men.
• 2017-09-16: e-dumper: the world's largest electric vehicle.
• 2017-09-15: Where are you on the IPv6 adoption curve?
• 2017-09-15: Rising CO2 and the great nutrient collapse.
• 2017-09-15: Rich's B compiler
• 2017-09-15: RFC 8187: the first RFC containing non-ASCII characters.
• 2017-09-15: Meet the font detectives who ferret out fakery.
• 2017-09-15: Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload.
• 2017-09-15: Google's influence over its network of influencers.
• 2017-09-14: migra: like diff for PostgreSQL schemas; migrations made almost painless.
• 2017-09-14: The origins of malloc().
• 2017-09-14: Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception.
• 2017-09-14: Compile-time Mandelbrot set in Rust.
• 2017-09-13: Formally verified cryptography for Firefox 57.
• 2017-09-14: Proporti.onl: gender distribution of people you follow and your followers on Twitter.
• 2017-09-13: Flying economy class is so cramped it could be a death trap.
• 2017-09-13: Here's what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers.
• 2017-09-13: Reconstruction of a train wreck: how priming research went off the rails. (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow)
• 2017-09-12: Announcing Topicbox: FastMail's new product for teams.
• 2017-09-11: Nearby houses with "twin" street addresses.
• 2017-09-11: White shark kayak: the origin of the fake picture of the shark in the flooded road.
• 2017-09-11: A copyright vote that could change the EU's Internet.
• 2017-09-11: The proposed European copyright directive's effects on open source software development.
• 2017-09-11: How to find out if/why a server is dropping packets.
• 2017-09-10: How f.root-servers.net has performed since Cloudflare joined its anycast cloud.
• 2017-09-10: How Brexit will affect your human rights.
• 2017-09-10: Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can't just let his art do the talking.
• 2017-09-10: The problem with calling women 'females'.
• 2017-09-10: Has the Voynich manuscript really been solved?
• 2017-09-10: The Network and Information Systems Directive's effect on Internet companies in the UK.
• 2017-09-10: Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
• 2017-09-10: .uk domain transfers are scary.
• 2017-09-09: The Corpus Christi prime.
• 2017-09-09: Identity fraud, credit reports, and you.
• 2017-09-09: Things found on GitHub: shell history.
• 2017-09-09: A guide to filtered permeability.
• 2017-09-09: On the discussion of security vulnerabilities. (1853)
• 2017-09-09: The "premium mediocre" life of Maya Millennial.
• 2017-09-09: Download 67,000 historic maps from Stanford's David Rumsey map collection.
• 2017-09-09: A first look at CoreDNS.
• 2017-09-07: The solution to the Voynich manuscript.
• 2017-09-07: The Uncomfortable: a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects.
• 2017-09-07: serve-stale in BIND: Akamai's contribution to DNS / Internet resiliency.
• 2017-09-07: Infosec incident response: protecting individual rights under the GDPR.
• 2017-09-07: Performance evaluation of elfmalloc, a general-purpose malloc() replacement written in Rust.
• 2017-09-07: In defence of NAT.
• 2017-09-07: Mison: a fast non-FSM-based JSON parser.
• 2017-09-07: Optimizing nginx on Linux for high throughput and low latency at Dropbox.
• 2017-09-07: Librsvg's build infrastructure: autotools and Rust.
• 2017-09-07: 5 tips for writing small CLI tools in Rust.
• 2017-09-06: How to recognize burnout before you're burned out.
• 2017-09-05: Some were meant for C: the endurance of an unmanageable language.
• 2017-09-06: Surfing uncertainty: the predictive processing model of human cognition.
• 2017-09-06: British antifa before and after World War II.
• 2017-09-06: Wind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity, and it's getting cheaper.
• 2017-09-06: Wind farms are not the bird slayers they're made out to be.
• 2017-09-06: A serf on Google's farm.
• 2017-09-06: Google: time to return to not being evil.
• 2017-09-05: Efficient air-conditioning beams heat into space.
• 2017-09-05: Solaris to Linux migration 2017.
• 2017-09-05: Is systemd's hand-rolled dbus-over-ssh tunnel a security worry?
• 2017-09-05: Game of registrars: an empirical analysis of post-expiration domain name takeovers.
• 2017-09-05: ansible-lint: Best practices checker for Ansible.
• 2017-09-05: Invisible Manipulation: 10 ways our data is being used against us.
• 2017-09-05: Zero-confirmation .uk domain hijacking with eNom.
• 2017-09-05: SharknAT&To: grievous vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems.
• 2017-09-04: Clear Containers and CRI-O: a VM per Kubernetes container, without Docker.
• 2017-09-04: Claude Shannon: mathematician, engineer, genius... and juggler?
• 2017-09-04: The vacuity of postmodernist methodology.
• 2017-09-04: Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations.
• 2017-09-04: Quantum reconstruction: rewriting the axioms of quantum theory from scratch, to understand what it all means.
• 2017-09-04: Outlawing war? The Kellogg-Briand pact actually worked.
• 2017-09-04: Multiple perspectives on technical problems and solutions: architecture review at Etsy.
• 2017-09-04: Google cloud load balancer outage postmortem.
• 2017-09-04: The Netherlands: an agricultural giant showing what the future of farming could look like.
• 2017-09-03: Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (For modern versions, yes.)
• 2017-09-03: Is there winning strategy in Tetris? (In general, no.)
• 2017-09-03: Perl as PID 1 under Docker.
• 2017-09-03: An introduction to managing secrets safely with version control systems.
• 2017-09-02: Brexit talks cannot succeed.
• 2017-09-02: LuaTeX comes of age.
• 2017-09-01: Barriers to equality in academia: women in computer science at MIT. (1983)
• 2017-09-01: F*: an ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification.