[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy…

Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inhe…

Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…

Longtime official retires after clash “over access to sensitive payment systems.”…

This fact sheet details an analysis of three firmware package versions of the Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor used by the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector.

Musk’s allies repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems, according to the Washington Post.

In 2013, inspired by GitHub's octocat, I too wanted a mascot. It wasn't something I exactly needed, but I thought would be interesting to have...

Viruses may play a surprising part

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Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have reshaped natural language processing, powering applications from multi-hop retrieval and question answering to autonomous agent workflows. Yet, prompt engineering...

Over 200 companies in the UK have started a four-day working week without reducing salaries. These companies include marketing agencies, IT firms, consultancies, and charity organizations, together employing more than ...

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

The number of unemployed people in Germany has risen to its highest in a decade. The rise comes as the weakness of Europe's largest economy took its toll on the labor market.

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