The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content.
Thinking for Programmers, by Leslie Lamport. Recommended.
Seven mutually touching infinite cylinders, by Sándor Bozóki, Tsung-Lin Lee, and Lajos Rónyai. “We confirm a conjecture of Littlewood.”
Hacking Blind (PDF), by Andrea Bittau, Adam Belay, Ali Mashtizadeh, David Mazières, and Dan Boneh. “We show that it is possible to write remote stack buffer overflow exploits without possessing a copy of the target binary or source code, against services that restart after a crash.” Impressive.
Open Access Maps at NYPL, “The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.”
A Research UNIX Reader (1987) at archive.org.
Inlined records in constructors for Ocaml, proposed by Alain Frisch. Yes, please!
Fotographie mit DRAM als optischem Sensor
SPIN’s 1994 Kurt Cobain Eulogy
RFC 7169: The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension