What is the Dandelion network protocol? What is the analogy with a dandelion plant?

The state of email encryption

High-performance object storage exists, but the economics make it unusable at scale. FractalBits breaks out of the high-performance trap.

You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.

Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system.

In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

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One of the things I do when I'm feeling blue is to make a mental list of the nice things people have done for me over the years, including perfect strangers.

Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.

Nature - Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.

Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal. And he is criticizing what he says is the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.

The potential of formal verification for reasoning about systems.

Ember's report outlines how falling battery capital expenditures and improved performance metrics have lowered the levelized cost of storage, making dispatchable solar a competitive, anytime electricity option globally.

"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.