Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter. lanl.gov
2001: A Space Odyssey celebrates its 50th anniversary with 70mm re-release. businesswire.com
The first 3D-printed steel bridge looks like it broke off an alien mothership. 3D-printing is undeniably the future for the construction industry. gizmodo.com
In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg bought a new home in San Francisco’s Mission District, about a mile from where I lived at the time. Shortly after the purchase, the man who once printed business cards boasting, “I’m CEO, Bitch” began refurbishing the $10 million “fixer upper.”
I immediately biked over to the area to scope the place out. I figured that having the address of one of the richest and most powerful people in the world could be vaguely useful. Maybe if a Class War ever started, I could point an angry mob in his general direction. Or maybe I could steal his valuable trash.
After four years of stalling, I finally decided to go ahead with the latter idea. My quarter-baked plan was this: I’d drive to his Mission District pied-à-terre on trash collection day, snatch a few bags of whatever, and dig through it. I could learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s habits and interests, creating my own ad profile of him. Then I could sell this information to brands looking to target that coveted “male, 18-34, billionaire” demographic. Think of it as a physical version of Facebook’s business model.
This is very fun to read.
Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, a privacy-first consumer DNS service. I’m glad that online privacy is now getting attention because of the recent Facebook breach. blog.cloudflare.com
An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered a galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood that is missing most — if not all — of its dark matter. This discovery of the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 challenges currently-accepted theories of and galaxy formation and provides new insights into the nature of dark matter. The results are published in Nature.
Dark matter is believed to be the one that holds galaxies together. This discovery requires us new knowledge on how galaxies work. It is exciting to know what’s the explanation behind this.
The protocol has several advantages over its previous version —TLS 1.2. The biggest feature is that TLS 1.3 ditches older encryption and hashing algorithms (such as MD5 and SHA-224) for newer and harder to crack alternatives (such as ChaCha20, Poly1305, Ed25519, x25519, and x448).
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All in all, TLS 1.3 is a serious boost to Internet security, being considered nigh impossible to crack, at least with today’s resources.