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If you have spent any time at all on college-level mathematics, you have probably heard of the scalar product: float scalarproduct(float * array1, float * array2, size_t length) { float sum = 0.0f; for (size_t i = 0; i < length; ++i) { sum += array1[i] * array2[i]; } return sum; } Most people who … Continue reading Can your C compiler vectorize a scalar product?

Justified Open Knowledge Evaluation and Ramification : A stateful mocking framework

What better way to move toward that goal than to start with the category labeled as “disabled”: Last Thursday, the House passed HR 4919, also known as Kevin and Avonte’s Law, which would allow the US attorney general to award grants to law enforcement for the creation and operation of “locative tracking technology programs.” Though […]

The threat of potential incarceration under the National Defense Authorization Act - NDAA - without recourse to a lawyer, judge and trial is very serious.

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7 Visualizations You Should Learn in R With ever increasing volume of data, it is impossible to tell stories without visualizations. Data visualization is an art of how to turn numbers into useful knowledge. R Programming lets you learn this art by offering a set of inbuilt functions and libraries to ...

In this talk we will explore and present various IPv6 scanning techniques that allow attackers to peek into IPv6 networks. With the alrea...

Your smartphone has two jobs. On one hand, it was hired by you to accomplish certain tasks. In the scheme of things, it's a screaming bargain and a miracle. But most of the time, your phone wo…

While we must talk about the ways global warming triggers natural hazards, we must also confront what turns those hazards into full-scale disasters: racism.

Picture by Torley A few months ago I returned to my home town of Cambridge to attend the first ARM Research Summit. What was special about this conference was that it focused on introducing externa…

Before I’d seen a single episode of Westworld, a journalist reached out to me for comment about it. The show touches on the question of AI consciousness, narrative design, the evocation of em…

TLS fingerprinting is a methodology based on the attributes in an SSL handshake ClientHello message. This presents an interesting approach to identifying user agents without first decrypting the traffic and looking for an HTTP User-Agent header.

TLS Fingerprinting. Contribute to LeeBrotherston/tls-fingerprinting development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here’s a simple setup and a readymade script for converting MP4s (or WEBMs) to animated GIFs, form Ubuntu 16.04 or Fedora 25: I started making some .gifs to embed in documentation and my note…

Unprecedented Spending Trends in America, in One Chart

Pete Warden reports in from the ARM Research Summit, where James Myers presented on “energy harvesting” by microscopic computers — that is, using glints of sunlight and the jostli…

When you hear "Attribution Problem" in infosec spheres you naturally think of the fact that there was a phase where everything was blamed on China, and

For our project, we would like to have all servers and systems synchronised to a linear time reference (without leap second). Therefore, we would discard UTC but are very interested in advertising...

Telecommunications giant Verizon is testing Mesosphere's Data Center Operating System as a potential new approach to managing scalable applications. DCOS "is the foundational software for how we orchestrate containers on internal clusters," said Lawrence Rau, director of architecture and infrastructure at Verizon Labs. According to Rau, DCOS is running in a number of U.S. Verizon…

"White working class" is a dog whistle, not a demographic.

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.

Lots of people have asked me how we handle rollbacks in our Continuous Delivery pipeline.  The short answer is we can redeploy an older MSDeploy package to revert to an older version of our website…

Tile38 is an open source (MIT licensed), in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ ...

These tech titans didn't plan to take down the telcos. But they depend upon you having fast, reliable internet, so they're bringing everything in-house.