13 January 2020

13 links · Monday

Real World Crypto 2020

All right, if you can all take your seats, we'll get this show on the road. All right. So welcome to Real World Crypto 2020, the now largest IACR event focused on applied cryptography and trying to get academics and practitioners in the same room to talk about…

Boing Boing was hacked

Dear Boing Boing readers — Around 11:30 EST on January 10th, An unknown party logged into Boing Boing’s CMS using the credentials of a member of the Boing Boing team.

Sharding & IDs at Instagram

With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits…

More Prime Images - Futility Closet

Inspired by James McKee’s Trinity Hall prime, physics researcher Gilles Esposito-Farese (of the self-descriptive pangram) has worked out that this 2,258-digit prime number: 53084469288402965415857953902888840109250315594591772197851275320 599107357456582434571…