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Software Supply Chain Security

devicu.com

A software attestation is an authenticated statement (metadata) about a software artifact or collection of software...
A software attestation is an authenticated statement (metadata) about a software artifact or collection of software artifacts. Software attestations are a generalization of raw artifact/code signing. It’s the verifiable information about software artifacts describing where, when and how something was produced. Prove...
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Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

9to5mac.com

There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight....
There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening and forced to reset their password before logging back in… We received our first tip about ...
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Android TV has access to your entire account–but Google is changing that

arstechnica.com

Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which...
Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloading some apps. As 404 Media reports, the issue was originally brought to Google's attention by US Sen. Ron Wyden ...
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Physical systems that can learn by themselves: UCB 2024 Oppenheimer Lecture [video]

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education
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Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus

acoup.blog

This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa,...
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. Last time, we looked ...
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12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server

sourceforge.net

This is a tool for running Wayland applications on an X server, preferably with a compositing...
This is a tool for running Wayland applications on an X server, preferably with a compositing manager running. It is not yet complete. What is not yet implemented includes support for touchscreens, and device switching in dmabuf feedback. It is not portable to systems other than recent versions of GNU/Linux running ...
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Organised Atoms at Flamm Festival, Redruth (2023)

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This post is all about our Flamm project we ran with Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change. The...
This post is all about our Flamm project we ran with Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change. The ultimate aim of the project was to try looking at technology by starting with the soil.Part #1: The field tripOur adventures began at Poldice mine where we congregated next to the arsenic labyrinth and tin stamps, and trekke...
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What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't

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This article was initially published on Dev.toopen in new windowI've been a senior developer for quite...
This article was initially published on Dev.toopen in new windowI've been a senior developer for quite some time now, yet I've just recently understood some advice I've been given at the very beginning of my career:Participate in Open Source! It will be great for your career!Well, as such, this is extremely bad advi...
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Bootstrapping Research and Dynamicland, Dec 2019 (Bret Victor) [video]

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science & technology
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US regulators seize troubled lender Republic First Bancorp

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Republic First Bank Seized by Regulators–First Bank Collapse of 2024

forbes.com

Troubled Philadelphia-based regional bank Republic First Bancorp was seized by Pennsylvania regulators Friday, marking the first...
Troubled Philadelphia-based regional bank Republic First Bancorp was seized by Pennsylvania regulators Friday, marking the first regional banking failure this year following a series of high-profile collapses in 2023—though the bank is far smaller than those that collapsed last year and its nearly three dozen branch...

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iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

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science & technology
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The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush

gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside...
Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of “doubtful legality,” “badly out of date,” and “even illegal,” according...
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Laws of Software Evolution

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The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that...
The software I encounter most is software that interacts with a changing world. It’s software that needs to adapt to other software, but critically, it needs to adapt to its users – to people! People change their attitudes and processes in response to the environment, and the software needs to adapt around that.1 Th...
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Getting worried about bird flu

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I'm getting worried about bird flu (aka H5N1 avian influenza). Calling it bird flu is a...
I'm getting worried about bird flu (aka H5N1 avian influenza). Calling it bird flu is a bit of a misnomer now, as recent news makes it clear that it is spreading widely in mammals, now including cows. This has been happening for a while now, but it's getting widespread enough that the mainstream media is picking up ...
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Show HN: Free AI-Powered Resume and Cover Letter Maker

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FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments

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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been...
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been found in 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk, providing a more detailed picture of how much of the milk supply has been affected.The tested milk came from a nationally representative sample, with more of the positive results co...
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Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts

medium.com

·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units...
·FollowMy latest survey is as follows:Apple has cut its 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400–450k units (vs. market consensus of 700–800k units or more).Apple cut orders before launching Vision Pro in non-US markets, which means that demand in the US market has fallen sharply beyond expectations, making Apple take a con...
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The Vision Pro is a flop

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apple
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Apnic: Cgnat is harming internet innovation (2022)

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How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

harvard.edu

The odds of contracting Lyme disease from tick bites during warmer weather months continue to rise....
The odds of contracting Lyme disease from tick bites during warmer weather months continue to rise. That’s owing to a series of factors, including changes in climate conducive to maintenance of tick populations over a longer period of time and the expansion of range for the parasites south and west from historically...
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I Kinda Hate the Internet Now

trend-mill.com

Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with...
Badly edited by author*warning: I went off on a rant.*I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about a long-forgotten period of time — the days when the internet was fun. Tightknit forums with positive vibes, the early viral videos on YouTube (looking at you, Star Wars Kid), MSN Messenger, the band pages on MyS...
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Signs of spiders from Mars

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Western Music Isn't What You Think

honest-broker.com

Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big...
Around 1990, I started researching the social history of music. I knew this was a big topic, but I had no idea how big.As it turned out, this project kept me busy for the next 25 years.I was crazy to do this. I was trying to understand the role of music in human life going back to prehistoric times, and hoped to fol...
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