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Death is looming for traditional gas furnaces as the heat pump takes over. A coalition of nine US states has signed an agreement to accelerate the transition from gas to electric heating systems, making it easier and cheaper for residents to switch to heat pumps. The goal is for heat pumps to make up at […]
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Side Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks are commonly used to extract secret keys from cryptographic engines in modern devices. These attacks exploit side channels like Timing, Power, and Electromagnetic leaks to gather information about the secret key. Even strong cryptography algorithms like AES are susceptible to SCA attacks without countermeasures in place. The discovery by Ledger […]
In this web content, the author shares their approach and best practices for writing HTTP services in Go. They start by acknowledging the influence of their previous blog post on the topic and their experience gained through hosting a podcast and maintaining code. The post covers a range of topics including structuring servers and handlers, […]
I’ve led infrastructure at a startup for the past 4 years and made some core decisions that I endorse for your startup. Picking AWS over Google Cloud has been a good choice due to better support, stability, and compatibility with Kubernetes. EKS is recommended unless you’re penny-pinching. RDS and Redis ElastiCache are endorsed for their […]
Over the past three decades, HTTP has been the foundation of the internet, allowing us to browse, download, and stream online. However, the TCP protocol that HTTP relies on has limitations that result in less responsive web applications. To overcome these downsides, Google introduced QUIC, a game-changing transport protocol that has gained widespread adoption, especially […]
In larger companies, it is common to have a directory service that keeps track of employees. One company had an internal service called “epitaphs” where entries for employees would appear after they left the company. Other employees could add comments to these entries. It was interesting that you couldn’t write your own epitaph; someone else […]
French authorities conducted a search of Huawei’s offices in France as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged breach of probity, which encompasses various offenses like corruption and influence peddling. Huawei has confirmed that it is fully cooperating with the authorities and remains confident about the outcome of the investigation. The tech giant, which has […]
Cyclomatic complexity is a software metric developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976 to measure the complexity of a program. It quantitatively measures the number of linearly independent paths through a program’s source code. The complexity is computed using the program’s control-flow graph, which consists of nodes representing groups of commands and directed edges […]
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is taking steps to regulate and penalize large-scale commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to their excessive power consumption. The EIA has found that cryptocurrency mining in the United States accounts for 0.6% to 2.3% of the nation’s electricity consumption, with Bitcoin mining alone consuming as much power as Utah […]
We’re thrilled to introduce Fedora Atomic Desktops, a new family of Fedora Linux spins that simplify the discussion and naming of rpm-ostree and future atomic spins. This is actually a reintroduction of Project Atomic, which started 10 years ago with the development of Atomic Host. Over time, we’ve seen the introduction of Fedora Atomic Workstation […]