@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-07-05 13:16:13
Looking at the current distributed.net statistics on the current RC5-72 brute force, this actually puts some key-size discussions into perspective.
#cryptography #crypto #symmetric
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-04 15:48:22
🥳 New release: Test Monkey version 1.2.0
• 100% coverage? You get a trophy 🏆 (Instead of a useless table.)
https://codeberg.org/small-web/test-monkey#100-coverage
Test Monkey is a node:test custom reporter that’s also a monkey.
npm install --save-dev @sm…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-08-05 23:30:25
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-04 14:38:01
Newsflash: US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that
Hiring has surged across the US economy.
Employment surged by 162,00 in August, much stronger than the 56,000 new hires expected, the latest non-farm payroll report shows.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education,
while the information industry lost jobs.
And in another important development
– the US did not…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-08-06 08:06:55
I'd have thought that one lesson of 2020 was timely and accurate health statistics can be critical for trust. But that's apparently not a concern in the US.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/05/budget
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-09-06 13:00:05
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-03 16:20:32
US federal statistics show that Manhattan had 8.3% of newspaper jobs in 2025, despite accounting for just 0.5% of the US population (Justin Fox/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-03/the-new-york-ific…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-09-03 20:36:13
It is extremely funny to me that Duracell is Official Partner of Added Time (!!!) in La Liga which basically means the boards and UI on TV look like a battery when they show stuff.
https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/duracel-powering-added-time-of-laliga
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-08-05 10:00:05
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-28 23:29:54
A longtime Department of Homeland Security official has resigned,
citing the Trump administration’s “brazen corruption” and the “war on immigrants.”
Over the weekend, Marc Rosenblum,
who serves as executive director for the Office of Homeland Security Statistics,
announced he would end his decade of service at the DHS, Wired reported Monday.
“I’m sad to suspend my career in public service and leave my amazing team,” Rosenblum wrote in a LinkedIn post.
“B…
