Oh hey, y’all, it’s Friday! It’s August! Which means it’s a great day for Facebook to drop a little news it would prefer you don’t notice. News that you won’t find a link to on the homepage of Facebook’s Newsroom — which is replete with colorfully illustrated…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet of material into any prescribed shape, inspired ...

Chinese-American cancer researcher

Introducing mistry - an open source, general-purpose build server.

Firebase Firestorm is an ORM for Firestore which can be used with Typenoscript. - GitHub - lmcq/firebase-firestorm: Firebase Firestorm is an ORM for Firestore which can be used with Typenoscript.

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android

(even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

In this talk, we’re looking at third party tracking on Android. We’ve captured and decrypted data in transit between our own devices and Facebook…

Freshermeat - Open Source Security Software

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

Publishers say it is a ‘quintessential’ violation of copyright law

Benchmarking Rust to determine if small structs should be passed by-copy or by-value.

French researcher nets $15,000 prize for finding bugs in Moscow's Ethereum-based voting system.

FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links

Free tip for young writers: Go to Goodwill and buy a gigantic used paper dictionary for $5 and keep it on your desk.

Who knew there was a sort of hanky code for hexadecimal. Thanks Datamation magazine from 1968 #prelingerwiki