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Google open-sources its Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries for private age checks

Google has released its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptographic libraries under an open-source license, publishing the code as 'longfellow-zk' on GitHub. The m

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How an Internal Combustion Engine Works, Built Up From First Principles

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive explainer reconstructs the internal combustion engine from scratch, starting with the simplest way to produce rotational moti

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IPFS Cuts Content Publishing From 20 Seconds to Under 1 With Optimistic Provide

IPFS has long suffered from slow content publishing on its Amino DHT, where announcing a new piece of content to the network could take dozens of seconds and oc

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Lancet Review of Billions of Doses Finds mRNA Vaccines Safe and Effective

A University of British Columbia–led review published in The Lancet pulls together lab research, clinical trials, and real-world data from billions of administe

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Linux 6.9 silently broke LUKS suspend's in-memory key wiping

The whole point of cryptsetup's luksSuspend is to flush a LUKS volume and scrub its master key out of kernel RAM while the machine is locked or asleep — the def

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Nintendo's touted 10% pay raise turns out to be three years old

At a shareholder meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa cited a 10% increase to employee base salaries as evidence that the company keeps compensation at

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Off-topic feed item: wombat cube-poop science (no article body supplied)

This item is out of scope for a cybersecurity/technology publication and cannot be responsibly summarized: the source provided only a headline with no article t

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Oomwoo: a fully open, local-first robot vacuum you 3D-print and build yourself

A maker known for the Maker's Pet projects has launched oomwoo, a build-in-public effort to create a robot vacuum whose hardware, firmware, and software are all

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PeerTube: Framasoft's Federated, Ad-Free Answer to YouTube

PeerTube is a free, AGPLv3-licensed video platform built by the French nonprofit Framasoft as a decentralized alternative to YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. In

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Podman 6.0 overhauls networking, Quadlets, and Docker compatibility

Podman's sixth major release retires the older slirp4netns and iptables networking components in favor of Netavark, Pasta, and nftables, consolidating the stack

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Qualcomm Announces Qualcomm Linux 2.0 for Developers

Qualcomm has published a developer blog post announcing the availability of Qualcomm Linux 2.0. Beyond the announcement itself, no article body was provided to

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Scientists build a synthetic cell from scratch that grows, copies its DNA, and divides

A team led by University of Minnesota synthetic biologist Kate Adamala has assembled a cell-like system entirely from nonliving, lab-made biological parts and s

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