IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available for Linux

InfoQ - Development

A few weeks after becoming available for macOS, iOS, and Android, the IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit can be now installed on various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS for x86 platforms, and Ubuntu for IBM's own Z…

1 August 2020

Apple Silicon: What the transition from Intel means for developers

Macworld

Software development for new ARM-based Macs has its own set of challenges and changes for developers. InfoWorld senior writer Serdar Yegulalp joins Juliet to discuss why the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon is so seismic, how the change is affecting…

31 July 2020

A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

Hacker News

No exaggeration, unfortunately. As a disclaimer, I will add that this is a really stupid mistake and shows my lack of experience managing auto-scaling deployments. However, it all started with a question with no answer and I feel obliged to share my…

14 September 2019

Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN

Hacker News

CURRYFINGER measures a vanilla request for a particular URL against requests directed to specific IP addresses with forced TLS SNI and HTTP Host headers. The tool takes a string edit distance, and emits matches according to a rough similarity metric…

14 September 2019

New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just by Sending SMS

Hacker News

Proven methods to build security awareness in developers. Watch the webinar. The 5 Point Tactical Guide for Secure Developers. Get the whitepaper. New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls. Sign up for cybersecurity…

13 September 2019

A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript

Hacker News

"Big integers" have landed in Javascript, at least in Firefox and Chrome. One of my favorite things to do with high precision arithmetic is to calculate digits of π. From scratch, that is, using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. …

12 September 2019