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A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography
A primer PDF hosted at cryptography101.ca walks readers through the mathematical foundations of lattice-based cryptography, the leading family of post-quantum s
Accenture to Acquire Ookla, Folding Speedtest and Downdetector into Its AI Stack
Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Ookla, the Ziff Davis-owned network intelligence firm behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics. Terms
Anthropic hits ~$1T valuation, overtaking OpenAI as top AI startup
A $65 billion Series H led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia has pushed Anthropic's valuation toward the trillion-dollar mark, nearly triple its F
AOMedia Finalizes AV2 Video Codec Spec, Successor to AV1
The Alliance for Open Media has published the v1.0.0 specification for AV2, the royalty-free successor to AV1. The standard targets better compression efficienc
Cheese Paper: An offline, file-based text editor built for writing fiction
Cheese Paper is a GPLv3-licensed writing tool aimed at fiction authors who want their drafts and notes to live as plain files rather than inside a proprietary d
Cloudflare Turnstile Now Demands WebGL Fingerprinting, Breaking WebKitGTK Browsers
Cloudflare's Turnstile human-verification widget has started requiring WebGL-based device fingerprinting, locking out users of WebKitGTK browsers who cannot com
Creatine supplementation slows early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30% in trial
A multicenter placebo-controlled trial of 240 early Alzheimer's patients found that 5g daily creatine monohydrate over 12 weeks raised brain phosphocreatine lev
Dav2d: notes on a new video decoding project
The source page for this item is a blog post titled "Dav2d" on jbkempf.com, the personal site of VideoLAN/VLC founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Based on the title al
Identifying a Saudi Desert Fossil with PCA and a Shell Image Dataset
A hobbyist found a shell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Alghat, Saudi Arabia — 500 km from the nearest coast — and set out to identify it without any pal
Identifying a Saudi desert fossil with PCA on a shell shape dataset
A hobbyist found a seashell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Saudi Arabia's Alghat desert, 500 km from the nearest coast. The region's carbonate rocks and
Jef Raskin on the Mac's Origins and the Drift from Human-Centered Design
In this 2013 republished interview, Jef Raskin — Apple employee #31 and founder of the Macintosh project before Steve Jobs pushed him off it in 1981 — pushes ba
Microsoft to remotely cripple perpetually-licensed Office 2019/2021 for Mac in July
On July 13, 2026, a license-validation certificate baked into Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS will expire, forcing affected installs of Word, Excel, PowerPoint