I haven’t posted here much lately, and I admit, it’s because I’ve gotten sidetracked thinking about curves again. I did my PhD thesis on curves, so spent years thinking about them, then put that on hold for a while, aside from some work in crunching font…

On Thursday, the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups. It endangers the security of everyone who uses online services…

As a general rule, the kernel is supposed to use the least amount of CPU
time possible; any time taken by the kernel is not available for the
applications the user actually wants to run. As a result, not a lot of
thought has gone into optimizing the execution…

Rocket is a web framework for the Rust
programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications
without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.

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David Edwards spoke at the DASER on November 15, 2018. David Edwards, Harvard University Professor, Founder of Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, and Cambridge...

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The long read: Beijing is buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to ‘tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide influence campaign of astonishing scope and ambition

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