Rebuilding Notre Dame has meant years of careful prep and planning. In December, heritage experts gave the green light to begin renovations.

Copyleft trolls, robosigning, and Pixsy.

Dr Muiris Houston: We must weigh the shortage of human organs against animal rights

FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google’s controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead. In its place, Google today announced a new proposal:…

There is little evidence of a pandemic-induced surge in automation

The counterintuitive principle that explains the modern world.

Our nuclear regulator: - 2,868 employees - $863m budget - 47 years in operation - LICENSE APPROVALS: ZERO twitter.com/elidourado/sta…

Nature Neuroscience - The authors of primary research papers accepted by our journal have the opportunity to make their work freely available to all upon publication.

Scientific Reports - Near-infrared photoluminescence of Portland cement

Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets have been long been used to reduce seizure frequency and more recently have been promoted for a variety of health condi...

Community guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH - protect secrets with hardware crypto. - drduh/YubiKey-Guide

By now, it’s likely that you saw the Bloomberg article about Google SREs’ mental health, which among others quotes my friend Mike Knell, and if not, I do recommend you start by giving t…

More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source…

At 16:48 UTC on Tuesday Jan 25, 2022, a third party informed Let’s Encrypt / ISRG that, while examining the Boulder codebase, they had noticed two instances of specification non-compliance in our implementation of the “TLS Using ALPN” validation method (BRs…

Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have found a new approach for combining data acquired wirelessly from a large number of sensors. The technique is based on considering the &...