Articles by jjgreen
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Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty (theregister.com)

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Frequently asked questions about signal handling in C (2024) (plover.com)

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Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts (theregister.com)

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Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session (theregister.com)

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You Want It Darker? (cinemasojourns.com)

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Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog (theregister.com)

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Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder (theregister.com)

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Weil Anima (columbia.edu)

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Dijkstra's algorithm won't be replaced in production routers any time soon (theregister.com)

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Stalin's Comment and the Immunity of Mathematics (mathoverflow.net)

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The Nature of the Beast (cinemasojourns.com)

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Brillant Python Programmers (thedailywtf.com)

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Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices (theregister.com)

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Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US (theregister.com)

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Converting data to hexadecimal outputs quickly (lemire.me)

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Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US gov. amid criticism of ICE contract (theregister.com)

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Floorplans for the Mondrian Art Puzzle (mathoverflow.net)

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"Fiddly" Word of the Year (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir (theregister.com)

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Velocity: Fast and Beautifully Furious (ilovetypography.com)

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Various and Sundry (columbia.edu)

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ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you (theregister.com)

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Neither Fan nor Frond (taylor.town)

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UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card (theregister.com)

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Unrequited Passion (cinemasojourns.com)

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A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants? (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud (theregister.com)

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Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages (theregister.com)

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The Advanced Matrix Factorization Jungle (igorcarron.github.io)

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Algol (2009) (duckoftheday.co.uk)

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The integrated explicit analytic number theory network (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Poleaxed (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Minions of the Fuhrer (cinemasojourns.com)

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CI-Hush (gitlab.com/jjg)

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The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere (theregister.com)

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Meaning and possible origin of "the (dog's) bollocks" (2019) (wordhistories.net)

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Index of reviews of Cahiers du Cinéma 2025 (jjg.gitlab.io)

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Speed limits introduced on UK motorways (1956) (bbc.co.uk)

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Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical chord with US big tech (theregister.com)

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The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked (theregister.com)

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Approaching 50 Years of String Theory (columbia.edu)

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Do mathematicians have an ethical role to play, regarding the AI bubble? (mathoverflow.net)

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Fast matrix-vector multiplication for a fixed 0-1 matrix (mathoverflow.net)

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10 Must-Have Typefaces for 2026 (ilovetypography.com)

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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful (theregister.com)

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GitHub is going to start charging you for using your own hardware (theregister.com)

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UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout (theregister.com)

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Emoji Book Synopses (taylor.town)

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Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost (theregister.com)

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"I'll leave you to it" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG (theregister.com)

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Solving a large system of polynomial equations over F2 (mathoverflow.net)

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Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance (theregister.com)

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UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B (theregister.com)

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Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers (evansville.edu)

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Judicial Malfeasance and Palestine Action (craigmurray.org.uk)

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Jury trials set to be axed for most crimes under major shake up (legalcheek.com)

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Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: another sample chapter (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme (theregister.com)

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Gary Mani Mounfield of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream Dead at 63 (manchestereveningnews.co.uk)

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Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera (ilovetypography.com)

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AI is bad at math, ORCA shows (theregister.com)

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Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform (theregister.com)

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Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures (theregister.com)

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UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK (theregister.com)

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Ragged Float (meyerweb.com)

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VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong (theregister.com)

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New Nikodym set constructions over finite fields (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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"Snarky"; "Snark" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Placebo Emporium: 2025 Annual Shareholder Letter (taylor.town)

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Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix (ilovetypography.com)

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Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C and likes what he sees (theregister.com)

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Digital ID is less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers (theregister.com)

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UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch (theregister.com)

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Speeding up C++ functions with a thread_local cache (lemire.me)

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Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case (theregister.com)

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How to use the possessive 's with et al.? (2009) (wordreference.com)

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"Snarky"; "Snark" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Aesthetics Matter (lemire.me)

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Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day (theregister.com)

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AI: The slacker's dream come true (theregister.com)

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Digital ID, same place, different time (theregister.com)

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Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find (theregister.com)

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Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts (theregister.com)

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EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners (theregister.com)

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UK chancellor Putin the blame on Russia for cyber chaos, but evidence says not (theregister.com)

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RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project (theregister.com)

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Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors (theregister.com)

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What's Got into Stephen King? (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

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Johnson, Cummings met Thiel months before Palantir won NHS pandemic role (theregister.com)

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AI Darwin Awards Launch (theregister.com)

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Don't Stop for Strangers! (cinemasojourns.com)

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PostGIS in Non-Standard Path (osgeo.org)

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RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house (theregister.com)

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What colour are the Liberal Democrats? (iamkate.com)

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Bad Craziness (columbia.edu)

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Steven Heller's font of the month: Experimo (ilovetypography.com)

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Yvette Cooper Is Lying (craigmurray.org.uk)

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UK allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases (theregister.com)

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God created men; Sam Altman made them equal (taylor.town)