from my link log —
An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/
saved 2021-12-01
How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (Fiona Kelliher/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135898/cyberscammer…
It looks like @…’s Trilemma Adventures—one of the best collections of short, self-contained #OSR adventure locations,IMO—is getting a box-set German translation.
Though the English-language originals are available in PDF for free (at
Heureux de lire un article qui comprend bien les enjeux de la gestion des vulnérabilités et qui reflète bien notre démarche avec le projet GCVE.
"Le Global CVE Allocation System, soutenu par l’UE, a été lancé début janvier. Cet événement fait suite aux problématiques de financement du programme CVE, opéré par MITRE Corporation et soutenu par le gouvernement américain. L’initiative illustre la manière dont l’UE affirme son influence normative tout en atténuant sa dépendance aux infrastr…
Just finished "Song of A Blackbird" by Maria van Lieshout. It's an excellent and extremely timely historical fiction graphic novel about rediscovering a family connection that was severed by war, and the Dutch Resistance figures under Nazi occupation who saved many lives, in some cases at the cost of their own.
Despite being fiction, it's very closely grounded in historical facts, and the inclusion of photographs within the illustrations is really cool.
Now is an interesting time to be thinking about the fates of Nazis, collaborators, their victims, and the resistance, as well as how we remember them all. I especially liked the section at the end about the real historical figures and their fates. So "fascinating" that none of the Nazis were executed or died in prison (mostly they did serve long terms before their release), even those who oversaw mass killings and deportations to concentration camps. I'm a prison abolitionist and not a fan of state capital punishment, so on *some* level this seems like an outcome I should be happy about, but I somehow doubt that the state was this lenient for all prisoners during this time period...
#AmReading #ReadingNow
Neural vision restoration in ophthalmology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-026-03989-y "restore visual perception through retinal prostheses, optic nerve and thalamic implants, cortical brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), optogenetics, and non-invasive s…
#PhantastikPrompts 16. Welche Art von Buchcoverdesign magst du am liebsten in deinem Genre (z. B. eher symbolisch, mit einer #Illustration, Fotomotiv ...)
Eins, das es nicht gibt. Ich hätte eigentlich gern Menschen auf Erotik-Fantasy-Covern. Und zwar glückliche Menschen mit vi…
Bruttoleistung von rückgebauten und zugebauten #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Illustriert wird der Rückbau von kleinen Anlagen mit üblicherweise > 20 Betriebsjahren im Vergleich zu leistungsstärkeren neuen Anlagen. Keine 1:1 Beziehung hinsic…
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The illustration is by Boris Artzybasheff who was a prolific artist, especially for commercial art.
Back when tech companies paid artists to make amazing artworks and didn't just steal their work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Artzybasheff