Martha's Vineyard Sign Language(atlasobscura.com)

46 points by tbodt 1 year ago | 9 comments

Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

92 points by jihadjihad 2 years ago | 38 comments

When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)(atlasobscura.com)

64 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 73 comments

How Copernicus took down Ptolemy's Almagest(atlasobscura.com)

35 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 37 comments

Threads of God(atlasobscura.com)

40 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 39 comments

Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)(atlasobscura.com)

124 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 79 comments

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts(washingtonpost.com)

642 points by Despegar 1 year ago | 925 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting that the U.K. secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to users' encrypted iCloud backups worldwide.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

Open source security at Astral(astral.sh)

344 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 95 comments

Astral blog post by William Woodruff describing the techniques Astral uses to secure its open source tools and their build, test, and release processes against supply chain attacks.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign(anthropic.com)

341 points by koakuma-chan 11 months ago | 261 comments

Anthropic news post describing how it detected and disrupted a cyber espionage campaign largely orchestrated using its Claude AI model, with a linked full report.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.