Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers – Post Office Scandal
Houses of Parliament, taken on 26 Nov 2024 I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data…
US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash
Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening. When an airplane crashes, we all hear about it. Large…
An aperiodic monotile
An aperiodic monotile David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss, 2023 An aperiodic monotile, sometimes called…
New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your…
history – When was the famous “sudo warning” introduced? Under what background? By whom?
The message appears in sudo’s revision control (in its current guise) in June 1993, in the University of Colorado version…
Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Bicameral, Not Homoiconic🔗 If you spend enough time reading internet discussions of programming languages, you’ll learn that Lispy languages have…
Demystifying git submodules
Throughout my career, I have found git submodules to be a pain. Because I did not understand them, I kept…
Working with PaloAlto to identify CVE-2024-2550
Introduction AC3 are a secure managed services provider focused on building, running and security mission critical environments. We are also…
‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we’re pleased to announce that the Oxford…
1934361 – ICP-Brasil: Mis-issued certificate
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: https://crt.sh/?sha256=421329f0dc2f683d6e96c1b5b310974d0997ad984ef69120f55372b4f48e1037 is mis-issued. google.com…
Police bust pirate streaming service making €250 million per month
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million…