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In this web content, the author shares their experience with a failing drive and the theory of cooling it down to increase reliability. They decided to test the theory on their Powerbook by placing it in the fridge for ten minutes, which successfully allowed the drive to boot. However, when copying large files, the drive […]
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Former Samsung employee Patrick Chang testified about the challenges faced by Branch Metrics due to Samsung’s default agreements with Google. Branch Metrics, founded by Alex Austin, struggled to launch an unrestricted version of its app-search software. Chang, who played a leading role in Samsung’s investment in Branch, advocated for a “carve-out” in Samsung’s agreement with […]
OpenPubKey is a new scheme introduced by Docker and BastionZero as a Linux Foundation project. It is similar to Sigstore but eliminates the centralized components of Transparency Log and Certificate Authority. OpenPubKey simplifies the process of signing and verifying artifacts but introduces certain tradeoffs. One tradeoff is that relying directly on OIDC signing keys for […]
In this post, the author explores the implementation of Unix pipes in Linux by optimizing a test program. The goal is to improve the program’s performance, which initially has a throughput of around 3.5GiB/s, and eventually match the speed of a highly optimized FizzBuzz program that pushes output to a pipe at a rate of […]
In 1997, Dr. Jerry Solinas generated the seeds for the NIST elliptic curves used in modern cryptography by hashing English sentences. However, Dr. Solinas passed away in 2023, leaving behind a cryptographic mystery. To crack these hashes and solve the mystery, a group of contributors is offering a bounty of $8,192 to $12,288. If the […]
We are excited to announce that Ollama is now available as an official Docker image, sponsored by Docker. This means that it is now much easier to use Ollama’s large language models using Docker containers. One of the unique features of Ollama is that all interactions with the models occur locally, ensuring that no private […]
In 2009, a massive star named N6946-BH1 baffled astronomers when it suddenly brightened but then faded without exploding into a supernova. The star’s disappearance led researchers to speculate that it had collapsed into a black hole, but this was only conjecture. However, recent observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have shed new […]
This article tells the fascinating story of Pythagoras and his famous theorem, which is not only a math story but also a history of two great civilizations. Every year, people continue to tackle the theorem to come up with new proofs. In 1993, a 350-year-old generalized version of the theorem was finally solved and even […]
The US Federal Communications Commission has fined Dish Network $150,000 for violating its anti-space debris rule. Dish failed to properly deorbit its EchoStar-7 satellite, which has been in space for over 20 years, instead sending it into a disposal orbit that posed a risk of orbital debris. This is the first fine issued by the […]
F3D is a fast and minimalist 3D viewer created by Michael Migliore and Mathieu Westphal. It offers support for various file formats, including glTF, STL, STEP, PLY, OBJ, FBX, and Alembic. Not only can it display animations, but it also provides options for rendering and texturing, such as real-time physically based rendering and raytracing. F3D […]