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fj, 3 months ago to random

💬🔒⚛️ Delighted to announce iMessage PQ3, our formally-verified protocol for end-to-end encryption that provides the strongest post-quantum protections against “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attackers by not only performing a quantum-secure key establishment, but also performing post-quantum ongoing rekeying.

Support for PQ3 will start to roll out with the public releases of iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4
https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

fj, 7 months ago to random

I'm very excited about #Canopée's hard sails. The vessel will be transporting #Ariane6 to the Kourou launchpad.

The semi-rigid hard sails are expected to provide a 30%-50% fuel reduction depending on the wind direction. This has huge potential to reduce emissions of maritime transport.

Engine powered off, the ship sailed at 9.4 knots at a 50° wind bearing with a 19 knots wind, which is quite impressive.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2023/10/13/un-navire-avec-des-ailes-pour-transporter-ariane-6-sur-l-ocean_6194097_1650684.html

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fj, 3 months ago to random

~100 more Starlink v1 satellites will be burning up in the upper atmosphere in the next 6 months, bringing up the total number of de-orbited Starlink satellites to ~500 out of 6000 launched
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/Commitment%20to%20Space%20Sustainability.pdf

De-orbiting satellites by burning them up did work when the volume of satellites was small, but already 10% of aerosol particules in the stratosphere contain aluminum/other metals.
The problem is only going to get worse with the launch of megaconstellations https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120

fj, 8 months ago to random

🎉🇨🇭The Swiss Parliament voted to adopt a motion (144 yes vs 24 no) to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the European Commission. ❌ 🕵️
https://www.parlament.ch/fr/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20224113
#CSAR #ChatControl

fj, 29 days ago to random

IBM is suing LzLabs, which helps its clients migrate away from IBM computer mainframe technology onto open source alternatives, claiming it wouldn't be able to do so without "reverse engineering mainframe technology”.
https://sifted.eu/articles/ibm-lawsuit-zurich-startup-lzlabs

fj, 4 months ago to random

Debian: "To retain parity with proprietary software the open development process needs to be entirely exempt from #CyberResilienceAct requirements”
https://bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md.html

fj, 7 months ago to random

Ylva Johansson is now claiming that because of the horrifying UK #OnlineSafetyBill the EU would be a safe-heaven for #CSAM ...

It's a race to the bottom on privacy now.

fj, 7 months ago to random

On the Apple Security Blog, we’re detailing, Contact Key Verification, a new feature that’s designed to detect sophisticated attacks against iMessage servers and allow users to verify that they’re messaging only with whom they intend.
https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-contact-key-verification/

fj, 6 months ago to random

Hundreds of RSA SSH private keys were factored by UCSD researchers using an efficient lattice attack from a single PKCS#1 v1.5 padded faulty signature.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1711
#cryptography

fj, 2 months ago to climate

“Last year, CO2 increased by 3.36 parts-per-million. That’s a 10% greater jump than the previous record, which was set just a few years ago.

In sheer weight, last year’s surge added a record 26 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere — more than three tonnes per human.”
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/27/analysis/co2-jumped-record-amount-last-year

#ClimateChange

fj, 3 months ago to random

Bitcoin, less efficient than ever per block.
Consuming a broader percentage of USA electricity every year.

> “we estimate electricity usage from Bitcoin mining based in the United States to range from 25 TWh to 91 TWh. That estimate represents 0.6% to 2.3% of all United States electricity demand in 2023”

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364

fj, 1 month ago to random

Just woke up learning that Sophia d’Antoine was ran over while walking in Upper East Side by a 72-year-old speeding in a Land Rover SUV.

I'll remember Sophia as an inspiring person, telling me a bunch of insightful facts about binary constraints solving after her talk at @hack_lu 2015

https://www.thedailybeast.com/founder-of-cybersecurity-startup-dies-after-being-struck-by-an-suv

#FuckSUVs #RIPSophia

fj, 5 months ago to random

Petrol states leading the pack on emissions per capita
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-per-capita-carbon-emissions-by-country/

fj, 8 months ago to random

Love to see it! 🇨🇭

Swiss government launches official Mastodon instance for a pilot.

Welcome @BK_KOMM!

Via @marcelsalathe

https://social.admin.ch/about

fj, 5 months ago to climate

🛰️ Pretty cool methane emissions visualization tool by French firm Kayrros that leverages data from Sentinel-5P and the ISS’s EMIT sensor
https://methanewatch.kayrros.com/
#Climate #CH4 #EO

fj, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

European far right parties (Vlaams Belang, AfD, Rassemblement National, Lega ... ) are nominating Elon Musk for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Gives you a sense of who wants to associate with this guy ...

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230918IPR05432/sakharov-prize-2023-nine-nominations-announced

#Musk #Tesla #SpaceX #X

fj, 17 days ago to random

I don't think I'm getting any sleep tonight.
#Alps #AuroraWatching #SolarStorm #Aurora

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fj, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Starting December 8, members of the French government will need to use the @dinum developed Tchap or Olvid messaging apps exclusively.

Any messaging application that is not audited by the @ANSSI, including Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram cannot be used to conduct official business and will need to be uninstalled
https://amp.lepoint.fr/2545099

fj, 2 months ago to random

Apple Silicon provides data-independent timing (DIT), in which the processor completes certain instructions in a constant amount of time. With DIT enabled, the processor uses the longer, worst-case amount of time to complete the instruction, regardless of the input data.

Learn how to enable DIT in your cryptographic code: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm64-code-for-apple-platforms#Enable-DIT-for-constant-time-cryptographic-operations

fj, 6 months ago to random

“Northvolt today announced a sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. The cell has been validated for a best-in-class energy density of over 160 watt-hours per kilogram.”
https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/northvolt/pressreleases/northvolt-develops-state-of-the-art-sodium-ion-battery-validated-at-160-wh-slash-kg-3287526

fj, 7 months ago to random

It's a bit disappointing that @EC_Commissioner_Breton is promoting his move to BlueSky now on X, while forgetting that he has an account on the official instance of the European institutions.

fj, 7 months ago to random

AOG Technics Ltd, a London-based airplane parts distributor laundered thousands of used CFM56 turbine parts, forging documentation certifying them as new.
The parts landed in hundreds of aircrafts around the world.

The fraudster made millions of British pounds in profit at the expense of traveller's safety.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-11/fake-parts-found-on-boeing-airbus-jets-plague-airlines

fj, 18 days ago to random

I'm a bit intrigued by the Italian-made Seabike concept. Seems like an obvious thing in retrospect so curious why there haven't been things like it before.
Anyone tried it already?
https://www.seabike.fr

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fj, 16 days ago to random

Interesting paper from 2018 quantifying the impact of #solarflares on #GNSS systems.

The 🇨🇳 BeiDou system was outperforming 🇪🇺 Galileo and 🇺🇸GPS during solar flare conditions due to more frequently updated broadcast ionospheric models.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018RS006591

I know Galileo/EGNOS did a recent system upgrade to provide increased resilience against solar peak activity, anticipating Solar Cycle 25, but not sure what those consisted of. Maybe @bert_hubert would know?

https://www.euspa.europa.eu/newsroom-events/news/egnos-safety-life-service-offers-increased-resiliency-against-peak-solar