Wednesday, March 06
Daily News Stuff 6 March 2019
Tech News
- A team of Chinese and American scientsts has invented infravision pills. (Cell)
Well, not pills. It needs to be injected. Directly into the eyeball. But!
- The EU's terrible horrible no good very bad copyright legislation might violate the GDPR. (TechDirt)
- VPNs are no privacy panacaea. (TechDirt)
Free VPNs are selling your data. Paid VPNs are quite possibly also selling your data.
- Drupal had a nasty vulnerability patched recently; the patch of course meant the vulnerability was publicly announced, so attackers swarmed on it to try to hack sites before they could be updated.
Cloudflare deployed a custom firewall rule to block attacks the same day. (Bleeping Computer)
Having half the websites in the world behind one CDN is worrisome, but it has advantages sometimes.
- Intel's Stratix FPGAs now support 58Gbps signals and 400Gb Ethernet. (Intel)
Intel also recently showed off a working 112 Gbps transceiver for their next generation FPGAs.
Which doesn't seem immediately useful for the average computer owner - except that this is the technology that will become PCIe 6.0 and PCIe 7.0 in a few years time.
- PEP 584 is one of those do-this-ten-years-ago PEPs. (python.org)
If there are obvious semantics for + and - for a datatype, implement them.
Disclaimer: Don't - oh, you already did. Well, here's an eggbeater and a bucket full of acetone. You know what to do.
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