Evan Wang 王艾文

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Searching a reporter’s home and seizing reporting materials is an extreme form of press intimidation. EFF joins press freedom groups in condemning the FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-condemns-fbi-search-washington-post-reporters-home
EFF Condemns FBI Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home

Government invasion of a reporter’s home, and seizure of journalistic materials, is exactly the kind of abuse of power the First Amendment is designed to prevent. It represents the most extreme form of press intimidation. Yet, that’s what happened on Wednesday morning to Washington Post reporter...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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This is beautiful. I've been looking at this for 5 hours now.

Apparently Cloudflare was taken down by a single `Result::unwrap` in their #Rust code

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/#memory-preallocation

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

The Cloudflare Blog
@cadey Honestly this happens so often you ought to make a setup that harnesses the energy it produces. It may be our best global warming solution at this point.
There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal
How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, *and* it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.

h/t @munin
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count | Quanta Magazine

By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.

Quanta Magazine