How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.
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That awkward moment when Target tells you your daughter is pregnant...
The downside of machine learning!
Posted on 2012-02-17T07:10:19+0000
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf
eprint.iacr.org
Hasnain says:
"Ron was wrong, Whit is right"
Interesting analysis of some practical problems with RSA.
Posted on 2012-02-15T19:04:30+0000
The End of Wall Street As They Knew It
After surprisingly successful financial reform, public vilification, and politics that have turned against them, the Masters of the Universe are masters no longer.
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“If you’re a smart Ph.D. from MIT, you’d never go to Wall Street now,” says a hedge-fund executive. “You’d go to Silicon Valley. There’s at least a prospect for a huge gain. You’d have the potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. It looks like he has a lot more fun.”
Posted on 2012-02-13T07:36:10+0000
The blind codemaker - MIT News Office
New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission, even over fluctuating wireless links.
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 ...
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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Easily the most interesting article I've read in the last month or so.
Posted on 2012-02-08T16:21:29+0000
Google Summer of Code 2012 is on! - Google Open Source Blog
News about Google"s Open Source projects and programs
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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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"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
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).
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