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Submission + - Dropbox open sources DivANS: a compression algorithm in Rust compiled to WASM

Submitted by danielrh on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:41PM

danielrh writes: DivANS is a new compression algorithm developed at Dropbox that can be denser than Brotli, 7zip or zstd at the cost of compression and decompression speed.
The code uses some of the new vector intrinsics in Rust and is multithreaded. It has a demo running in the browser.
One of the new ideas is that it has an Intermediate Representation, like a compiler, and that lets developers mashup different compression algorithms and build compression optimizers that run over the IR. The project is looking for community involvement and experimentation.

Submission + - SPAM: Google Pulls 500+ Backdoored Apps From Google Play

Submitted by Orome1 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:33AM

Orome1 writes: Security researchers have identified over 500 apps on Google Play containing an advertising software development kit (SDK) called Igexin, which allowed covert download of spying plugins. The apps in question represent a wide selection of photo editors, Internet radio and travel apps, educational, health and fitness apps, weather apps, and so on, and were downloaded over 100 million times across the Android ecosystem. Lookout researchers did not name the apps that were found using the malicious SDK, but notified Google of the problem. The latter then proceeded to clean up house.
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Comment Re:And remind me (Score 1) 60

by Nareth on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @09:08PM (#43856331) Attached to: Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised

Because if many weak passwords exist in the database it makes it easier to work through the salts. See the recent ars technica article.

Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange 1020

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:06PM from the we-think-we-don't-like-him dept.

chrb writes "Interpol have issued a wanted notice for Julian Paul Assange for alleged sex crimes. The Guardian and Wired both have commentary."

Comment And a control? (Score 1) 192

by Nareth on Monday June 28, 2010 @01:19PM (#32718674) Attached to: Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities

Who is to say that people who are strong are more inclined to evil? In his study he didn't use any sort of a control, so his conclusions aren't necessarily true.

Indian Copyright Bill Declares Private, Personal Copying "Fair Dealing" 192

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 24, 2010 @01:31AM from the much-less-drama-that-way dept.

asp7yxia writes "India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be 'fair dealing' (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright."

Comment Re:Stupidity (Score 1) 941

by Nareth on Thursday February 18, 2010 @09:32PM (#31194216) Attached to: PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams

It could just be something like smoking weed. It couldn't be fapping because they would have child porn on their hands, so it has to be underage drinking or something else like that.

Comment Witch Hunt (Score 1) 2

by Nareth on Sunday December 27, 2009 @06:14PM (#30566044) Attached to: got examples (of USG Ignoring Input)?

Don't you see that if they took the word of one person that he's a terrorist, it would turn into another Red Scare/Salem witch trial? How long before you could claim someone you dislike is a terrorist, and get them on the no fly list just like that? Of course the father doesn't have credibility, he's just one person. What if the father got in a fight with the son and sent the "advice"? Could they trust it just like that?

Comment What a pity.. (Score 3, Informative) 41

by Nareth on Saturday August 29, 2009 @01:31AM (#29240029) Attached to: Developer Explains Clone/Transhumanist RPG

As I was reading, I was thinking what an innovative and interesting game this would make, one thing the mmorpg market hasn't seen yet. ...And then, much to my distress, I realize it's a pen-and-paper game.

Submission + - Apple kicks HDD marketing debate into high gear 2

Submitted by quacking duck on Saturday August 29, 2009 @01:08AM

quacking duck writes: With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard," Apple has updated a support document describing how their new operating system reports capacities of hard drives and other media. It has sided with hard drive makers who for years have advertised capacities as "1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" instead of the traditional computer science definition, and in so doing has kicked the debate between marketing and computer science into high gear.

Binary prefixes for binary units (e.g. GiB for "gibibyte") have been promoted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by IEEE and other standards organizations, but to date there's been limited acceptance (though manufacturers have wholeheartedly accepted the "new" definitions for GB and TB). Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?

Submission + - Homeland Security Changes Laptop Search Policy (physorg.com) 2

Submitted by

IronicToo

on Friday August 28, 2009 @02:38AM

IronicToo writes: "The US Government has updated its policy on the search and seizure of laptops at border crossing.
The long-criticized practice of searching travelers' electronic devices will continue, but a supervisor now would need to approve holding a device for more than five days. Any copies of information taken from travelers' machines would be destroyed within days if there were no legal reason to hold the information.
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