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SeaMonkey is the ultimate all-in-one Internet suite, offering an internet browser, email client, HTML editor, IRC chat, and web development tools in one application. Developed by the SeaMonkey project, this software suite combines the best features of Netscape and Mozilla, with legal support from the SeaMonkey Association. Using the same Mozilla Firefox source code, SeaMonkey […]
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Sensationalizing the Cold War era, L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and brainwashing myths revolutionized the ideological landscape. From Edward Hunter’s pseudo-scientific propaganda to CIA funding for mind altering projects like MK-Ultra, the race for mind control shaped America’s psyche. Dianetics, envisioned by Hubbard, emerged as a pseudo-scientific tool in the battle against brainwashing. The […]
In March 2011, the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link faced an earthquake and tsunami scare while repairing a damaged undersea cable off the eastern coast of Japan. Submarine cable work is a crucial yet underappreciated job, with profound global implications if these vital systems were to fail. The story delves into the intricacies of maintaining […]
A recent memory corruption security vulnerability in OpenSSL’s punycode parser has sparked questions in the security community about the lack of a fuzzer for the punycode parser and if lessons from Heartbleed have been learned. While giving developers the benefit of the doubt, there is already a fuzz testing harness for the X.509 in OpenSSL’s […]
Open MCT is a top-tier mission control framework utilized by NASA for spacecraft missions and rover systems. This open-source tool enables the visualization and analysis of telemetry data, making it adaptable for various systems. Development is straightforward with clear documentation and examples available. The project is continuously evolving, prioritizing compatibility with different browsers and operating […]
BlueHats prizes, a French initiative, awards €10,000 to maintainers of critical free and open-source projects. Simon Kelley, maintainer of dnsmasq, won the first 2024 prize for providing network addressing for small networks. Public officials recognized dnsmasq’s importance for network security. Kelley expressed his delight and the significance of public recognition for his 25 years of […]
In October 2022, a Bar-tailed Godwit nicknamed B6 achieved a monumental feat, flying 8,425 miles from Alaska to Tasmania in just 11 days without stopping. This impressive journey, equivalent to a nonstop flight of the Boeing 777, showcased the extraordinary athleticism of this small bird. The secret to its success lay in the feather’s incredible […]
In the paper by Hoffmann et al. (2022), three methods are presented for estimating a compute-optimal scaling law. Our attempt to replicate their third estimation procedure reveals inconsistencies with the first two methods, failure to fit the data, and implausibly narrow confidence intervals. We question the validity of their reported estimates, suggesting that over 600,000 […]
Hermit is a powerful tool that ensures deterministic execution of programs by isolating them from sources of non-determinism like time and random number generation. It can be used for concurrency stress testing, reproducible builds, and diagnosing concurrency bugs. Hermit uses a pseudorandom number generator to replace random bytes, ensuring consistent program output. By controlling how […]