I'm investigating the applicability of the IETF's DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) specifications[1] to the needs of privacy-preserving overlay networks, including VPNs but with particular interest in Tor. Specifically, now that the July 2022 D/DoS attack…

Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a study. The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren’t…

Enough rock fell off a Himalayan peak to bury Paris to the height of the Eiffel Tower

New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated

In the world of data, textual data stands out as being particularly complex. It doesn’t fall into neat rows and columns like numerical data does. As a side project, I’m in the process of developing my own personal AI assistant. The objective is to use the…

A study details that open source code that contains swear words exhibits significantly better code quality...

Update: Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year, not just $25,000 Since there was some interest on my last post on the most lucrative hydrant in NYC, I wanted to download a bit more data and...

The internet shutdown is set to continue until Thursday, 15 June.

San Andreas Mercenaries is out today, and the new update both giveths and takeths…

The rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving employers is approaching prepandemic levels.

(And why one is better than the other)

GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.

An attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation called automated license plate readers ‘a growing threat to everyone’s privacy.’

The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers…

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