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TechCrunch | Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram

This might just be the sweetest Valentine's Day story I've ever heard. It's definitely the sweetest Valentine's Day story I've ever written. Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She also happens to be Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger's girlfriend of two and a half years (The 26 ...

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Laurence Tratt: Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time

This need for a corresponding language implementation leads to what I think of as the language designer's dilemma: how much implementation is needed to show that a language design is good?

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Seems Legit - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

F-Secure Security Labs brings you the latest online security news from around the world. Ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest online threats to guarantee your online wellbeing.

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Hasnain says:

"In it, a computer virus crashes a computer. And sets it on fire. The virus got in via a fractal. Embedded on a bone of a shooting victim."

Seriously? One of the lamest hacking scenarios I've seen on TV -_-

Posted on 2012-01-31T15:12:07+0000

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Marc Stevens - Research - Single-block collision attack on MD5

In response to the challenge posted in: - Construct MD5 Collisions Using Just A Single Block Of Message, Tao Xie and Dengguo Feng, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2010/643, (PDF).

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Promo Bay — Paulo Coelho's Blog

The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to

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Elsevier — my part in its downfall

The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world's best known mathematics journals, including Advances in Mathematics, Comptes Rendus, Discrete Mathematics, The European Journal of Combinat...

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YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood

That's one reason we want to fund startups that will compete with movies and TV, but not the main reason. The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're r...

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Hasnain says:

"Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise."

Posted on 2012-01-21T06:57:08+0000