At DEF CON 32, Samy Kamkar gave a talk about laser microphones. That was the only talk I made a point to watch live that year. Kamkar never disappoints and I have fond memories of trying to use a laser pointer and photodiode to hear through windows as a kid.…

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Prepare for That Stupid World par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK from using their VPNs.

AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.

Das Schweizer Tech-Unternehmen Proton hat angefangen, seine Server aus der Schweiz abzuziehen. Im Interview verteidigt der CEO seinen Kurs und greift den Bundesrat scharf an.

This week's bankruptcy of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum, is about more than a robot cleaner. It's about monopolies, Wall Street, and economists leading America on a path of destruction.

Open-source implementation of the classic GTA engine now running directly in your browser. Experience the reVC technology demo on DOS.Zone and see how a full 3D city comes alive on the web.

The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Achieving a new frontier for both accuracy and efficiency in document processing.

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Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust.

Minimal PDF creation library. <400 LOC, zero dependencies, makes real PDFs. - Lulzx/tinypdf

The man suspected in the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing two days later of an MIT professor was found dead in a storage facility, authorities said.

We apply a transparency log to a centralized keyserver step-by-step, in less than 500 lines, with privacy protections, anti-poisoning, and witness cosigning.

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

Libs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay’s tech publication scene.