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Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered(phys.org)
207 points by wglb 1y ago|114 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Arxiv article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19244
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New geometry discovery could stop lunar landers from falling over(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 1y ago|2 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Ariv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20634
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Radio observations shed more light on the properties of Pandora's Cluster(phys.org)
4 points by wglb 1y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
> Do you remember the actual Heartbleed bug? Vividly. I spent a full week on remediation, even though the risk we had was traced to a single linux box exposed to the internet that had tens of kb of traffic over the last year. Being proa
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by wglb 1y ago
> Legacy codebases can eventually become more expensive to maintain than to rewrite I'm wondering what the cost would be of rewriting Chrome, at 20 to 30 million lines of code, in Rust? I suspect that despite the memory unsafety, th
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by wglb 1y ago
For whatever reason, my career has been driven by curiosity, first computers and Fortran II, then real-time medical data analysis, then compilers, then collection of batch financial data from dozens of sources, then low-latency financial tr
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by wglb 1y ago
My favorite crypto bug was not a memory safety issue: https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Valsorda-Squ... Was a fascinating detective story to illustrate it.
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by wglb 1y ago
> Seems that a judge does not understand the impact of asking company X to "retain all data" You can count on the fact that the judge does in fact understand that this is a very routine part of such a process. It is more like t
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by wglb 1y ago
I can tell many stories about the giant spreadsheets. The larges of them has near 1000 rows. And if you have a lot of security-conscious customers, you will get a lot of them. And they supposedly all cover the same topics, but they all divi
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by wglb 1y ago
When I was doing security training for the engineers at Relativity, I gave each attendee (ultimately all of engineering) the book. I saw Cliff speak twice at the Dayton Hamvention. The first time was a retelling of his Cuckoo's Egg sto
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by wglb 1y ago
https://archive.ph/2025.06.19-151703/https://www.nytimes.com...
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At Chile’s Vera Rubin Observatory, Earth’s Largest Camera Surveys the Sky(nytimes.com)
47 points by wglb 1y ago|21 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
This is an excellent writeup. This rhymes with the complexities noted in https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/why-is-that-bank-bran... . Lots of seemingly little things that are necessary to get something off the grou
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Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone(phys.org)
60 points by wglb 1y ago|52 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Reference: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neurophotonics/v...
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Scientists detect light passing through human head:new doors for brain imaging(medicalxpress.com)
8 points by wglb 1y ago|2 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Another related article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-major-sugar-substitut...
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Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica(phys.org)
1 points by wglb 1y ago|0 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Thanks!
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by wglb 1y ago
Article in Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)... One wonders about the forensic implications of this.
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by wglb 1y ago
Article in Physioliogy https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.002...
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Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function(medicalxpress.com)
163 points by wglb 1y ago|192 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
More detailed article in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3834
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Turning carbon dioxide into fuel just got easier, thanks to acid bubbles(techxplore.com)
5 points by wglb 1y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Referenced article in Optica: https://opg.optica.org/optica/abstract.cfm?doi=10.1364/OPTIC...
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Unprecedented optical clock network lays groundwork for redefining the second(phys.org)
24 points by wglb 1y ago|13 comments
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by wglb 1y ago
Underlying article https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)...
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Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape(phys.org)
17 points by wglb 1y ago|1 comments

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