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I can’t believe you’re the only one mentioning this.

Feedback and bug reports (exception: security) should be public and users should be able to vote. Apple then could prioritize much better. Also, take a look at their user forums: T…

Interactive PFSA map for the US: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

FWIW: AMD offers this: https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/blas-library/ The source code is available on GitHub.

IMHO it's worth mentioning that this discussion is about Spectre variant 1 (as is the original article). I.e. we should not write "Spectre" when we talk about a specific Spectre va…

There are better cryptographic hash functions (e.g. Blake2) than SHA1 that are even faster. Check out the "results" slide of this slide deck for the cycles per byte table: https://…

From the OpenSSH moduli(5) man page: "When performing Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange, sshd(8) first estimates the size of the modulus required to produce enough Diffie-Hellman outpu…

An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG by Neal H. Walfield https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-11-05-advanced-intro-gnupg.h...

Quote: "Dropbox was moving away from using the encryption algorithm SHA-1"

Honey.

"Although APFS does checksum metadata blocks it does not do anything to provide resilience for data blocks. That is a huge omission in a modern filesystem, a point I tried to polit…

Brendan, did you read this awesome blog post (which mentions your work btw) about Google's tracing framework which may explain the kind of problems they want to solve? http://danlu…

Check out the "Intel AVX Instructions Optimization" slide on http://anandtech.com/show/10158/the-intel-xeon-e5-v4-review/... . Quote: On Haswell, one AVX instruction on one core fo…

The job of the distributions would be much easier if more software projects would a) consequently use semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, see http://semver.org for details) and…

FWIW: The new Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc format which supports 4K, HDR, and Dolby Atmos/DTS:X will launch soon (if you can still tolerate an optical medium). Watch for the new "Ultra HD…

The Knights Landing (KNL) memory hierarchy is different from Knights Corner because it now features MCDRAM (HBM) - even with three different modes [0]. [0] - http://www.anandtech.c…

The next step: A distributed, content-addressed caching system that allows the web browser to fetch the data from the fastest/nearest caching server by hash . IPFS comes to mind.

Monty's videos are a good start: https://www.xiph.org/video/ https://www.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/

I wonder if there's a good explanation for non-experts that gives at least an idea how an attacker would exploit the (key, nonce) pair reuse and why everything fails so catastrophi…

Watching this video feels like attending a funeral together with a clown.

when I think NVM I think of Non-Volatile Memory something like RAM that doesn't go blank when you hit the power button This is the "Persistent Memory" device class. See e.g. this a…