I just rejected a request for a 2.5GB file size limit on PyPI and think it’s probably time we have a discussion about why and the future of the ecosystem here. File sizes on PyPI have been slowly increasing in size for a while now, mostly driven by certain…

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At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with customers and the InfoSec community to learn more about the latest adversary tradecraft so that we can improve our detection strategies across all our security services. To help the broader security community…

Taking a look at affordability for first-time buyers, and what useful metrics can be constructed to measure this.

I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on Visual Studio.
I worked in Splunk on some work related…

The Biden administration's tax enforcement proposal would require that cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and would more than double the IRS workforce over a decade, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.

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Well this is interesting. I’ve got an animated gif that I can open up in Acorn on x86, and it uses about 360MB of memory. I open the same image on Apple Silicon, and it takes up 35.51 GIGABYTES. Methinks there’s a memory leak in CG* somewhere.

In the nineties, a frustrated artist in Berlin went on a crime spree—building bombs, extorting high-end stores, and styling his persona after Scrooge McDuck. He soon became a German folk hero.

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment…

The discoverer of the KRACK attacks
against WPA2 encryption in WiFi is back with a new set of flaws in the
wireless-networking protocols. FragAttacks is a sizable group of
WiFi vulnerabilities that (ab)use the fragmentation and aggregation (thus
"Frag") features…

A fast trading bot platform for cryptocurrency in Go (Binance) - rodrigo-brito/ninjabot