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A Security Tale: A Timeline — the story of, and consequences of, one chap’s insane workload being the NZ security person for Equifax during the fallout from the breach. Perfect storm of remote management, global demands, outsourced team, outsourced cloud providers…and 18-hour days spent trying to cover your employer’s ass. He talks about the logistic

Quantum Supremacy: The Gloves are Off (Scott Aaronson) — Google demonstrated a quantum system that will be exponentially faster, as the number of qubits increases, than a classical system simulating the problem. IBM proposed a way of using the world’s most powerful classical supercomputer (Summit) to brute force a solution faster than the method listed

How Not to Rewrite it in Rust — A much better alternative is to reuse the original library and just publish a safe interface to it. As this comment on Lobsters says, Rust can add safety guarantees even to C code! When using a C library, you may need to know things such as “if

Memex — open source browser extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks. Competition Programming and Problem Solving, Fall 2019 — CMU course. Pwnagotchi 1.0.0 — I wanted Alpha and Beta to be able to detect each other and exchange with each other very basic information—but how do you communicate anything at all from