Apr 18
By now, you’ve read all about Heartbleed nerdy brave computer scientists have run it, so you don’t have to.
Apr 09
By now you’ve surely heard of Heartbleed, the hole in the internet’s security
Apr 04
If you’ve been thinking about getting started on the rocket project that’s been on your mind for ages, now is a good time to get serious. Next week, NASA will release a massive software catalog with over 1,000 projects. It’s not the first time the space agency’s released code, but it is the first time they’ve made it so easy.
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Mar 20
When developers talk about bootstrapping, they’re not referring to a technique they’ve developed to avoid tying their shoelaces—but a means of running code wherever the hell they like.
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Feb 24
For all the time we’ve spent staring blankly at GIFs, it’s crazy to think that those looping animations could have been hiding coded messages all along. Prosthetic Knowledge put together this "Lenticular Encryption" project to show how illicit info can be snuck into everyone’s favorite image format.
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Feb 05
From robots to mind-reading, new programming languages to advanced communication systems, DARPA has fingers in many, many pies. And now, it’s making all its open source code available by publishing the DARPA Open Catalog.
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Jan 03
Hey look, it’s an actor looking at some computer code in a movie. He must be really smart! He must be a computer hacker! He must be able to take over the world with just his keyboard! Not quite. The code used in movies is usually nothing but some mumbo jumbo on WordPress or Wikipedia. No, seriously. That image above showing The Doctor looking at code is a SVG file of a light wave taken from Wikipedia.
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Dec 10
There’s no way ’round the fact that scanning millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities is a chore. But now DARPA is keen to get volunteers helping out—by turning it into a game.
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Nov 01
This article was written on November 10, 2011 by CyberNet.
The web is advancing at a rather rapid pace and so is the amount of stuff you can do with things like CSS. The CSS3 Generator is a site that demonstrates just how powerful CSS is becoming, and the best part is that you don’t need to know too much syntax when there are tools available like this one.
You can see all of the customization options in the screenshot above, and what’s nice is that the code it generates is designed to work in browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Unfortunately some of the options aren’t available in Internet Explorer, such as the background gradients, so you shouldn’t assume all of it should work. The code that gets generated has comments to point out when you should be concerned with browser compatibility though.
What I like about tools like this is that they serve as a great way to learn the syntax required to create advanced designs without falling back to using specially-crafted images. I always look to examples to pick up this kind of stuff, and for that reason I greatly appreciate anyone who takes the time to create these online tools.
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Sep 24
Encoding symbols and characters in digital form is fairly easy—but making sure that everyone in the world is doing it in the same way sure isn’t. Fortunately, Unicode came along—but how the hell does it work?
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