INRIA team & Nadia Heninger claim to have factored 795-bit RSA keys using a Number Field Sieve: lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/cado… CADO-NFS software that was used is here: cado-nfs.gforge.inria.fr

Computer Programming 101

Thank God some people don't need to see so far under the hood. This is the correct answer for all tech questions ;) Credit for both comic goes to abstrusegoose.com/secretarchives…

Happy first of January everyone. I am starting the year with a study of "The Polygons of Another World" (fabiensanglard.net/another_world_…).

Here is the last entry in the "Polygons of Another World" series. There were no better machine than the legendary Super Nintendo to ends it all: fabiensanglard.net/another_world_…

Encore un magnifique exemple de "Oui mais moi c'est pas pareil'...

oh no, the virus has spread to Null Island! the big dot off the west coast it's not a real place it's a digital mapping joke, not a good joke at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Isla… i'm trying to stop myself from tweeting this

Interesting reads. Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chr…

Elle fait mal celle-là. Roger Carel (1927-2020)

The company that can't predict your monthly bill will now instead focus on predicting the weather because it's easier. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

This would actually be an amazingly effective way to teach people how computers work and what computer programming is.

We are hurtling down the road at 80 mph. A truck is stopped 350 ft ahead of us. Our stopping distance in good weather is 320ft. The road is a little wet, we haven’t yet taken our foot off the accelerator, and the passenger has been telling us about the truck for the last 1000ft.

La redevance copie privée, que vous payez quand vous achetez un portable, doit notamment financer des actions d'aide à la création. Parmi les cinq projets particuliers les plus soutenus en 2020, on trouve deux projets de disque de Johnny Hallyday (pour 216 859 et 181 742 €)

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6

Wow, this is a really helpful visualization.

Ten years ago today that The Martian hit shelves. I owe everything that happened since then to my readers. I can't thank you enough. So, for the hell of it, I wrote some additional content for The Martian. The Martian: Lost Sols galactanet.com/lostsols.pdf

Happy birthday to the Sinclair ZX81 - launched on the 5th March 1981 (43 years). For many people in the UK it was their first home computer and one of the reasons they work in the computer industry today. Available ready built, or as a kit, as many machines from that period were