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Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough.

Posted on Wednesday 4 Aug 2021. 1,276 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Conan is an open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager for C/C++ that allows you to create and share all your native binaries.

Demand for faster processing with increasingly diverse applications is prompting very different compute models.

The primary focus of the 2020 State of DevOps report was the emergence of a self-service developer platform model that top-performing DevOps teams are adopting. The reason for adopting this model is to enable a self-service experience for application development teams. The Internal Platform Model There are many ways to refer to this platform: internal…

Top Linux developer Kees Cook calls for everyone to push more for securing Linux.

Kolmogorov complexity of an object or algorithm is the length of its optimal specification. In some sense, it could be thought of as algorithmic entropy, in the sense that it is the amount of information contained in the object. Given that graphics, the game must be of at least a few hundred megabytes, right? Well, it is just 96 kilobytes. Consider the strings 11111111111111111111111111111111 and 4c1j5b2p0cv4w1x8rx2y39umgw5q85s7. The most obvious way to describe the …

Believe the hypeAfter decades of hype, it’s only natural for your eyes to skate over corporate mission-statements without stopping to take note of them, but when it comes to ending your relationship

Your favorite multi-player games took years to develop, but surely it can’t be that bad anymore, right? The technology has gotten better…

This 5-minute video explains the meaning of credit card numbers. They aren’t just random, and the final digit is a check digit that makes it possible to determine if a credit card number is i…

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Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.

The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia

By: Ethan Pailes

USENIX will continue to create similar content for SREcon