If you’re still using 32-bit PGP keys, you only think you have security. But you really don’t. It would take a cracker about four seconds to forge your PGP signature. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: August 17, 2016
It’s time to say goodbye to Linux 4.6
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•By Katherine Noyes If you’re using a version of Linux based on the 4.6 series of the kernel, the software’s lead maintainer has a message for you: It’s time to upgrade. Greg Kroah-Hartman on …read more Source:: OpenSource
Safer opioid painkiller made from scratch
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•Researchers have developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain without triggering the dangerous side effects of current prescription painkillers. Their secret? Starting from scratch — with computational techniques …read more Source:: Science
New techniques boost understanding of how fish fins became fingers
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•The cells that make fin rays in fish play a central role in forming the fingers and toes of four-legged creatures, one of the great transformations required for the descendants …read more Source:: Science
Two Barbados bird species enter the select club of string-pullers
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•The Barbados bullfinch and Carib grackle can pass the popular animal cognition test of string-pulling, but this ability may be unrelated to performance on six other cognitive tests, according a …read more Source:: Science
A Raspberry Pi Zero challenger with Wi-Fi: Just $5 will get you this tiny Onion Omega2 computer
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•The wi-fi connected $5 Linux developer board has already crashed past its funding target on Kickstarter. …read more Source:: Linux