Breaking the Snake: How Python went from 2 to 3

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The night before Snakemas Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;Except a man at his computer,Who dared to try;to make a language that would change lives,Not even he knew … Read more

Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?

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A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have … Read more

Breaking up with Python

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Breaking Up With Python December 27, 2022 For years, Python has been my go-to language for a quick bit of scripting where another language might feel too heavy duty. As time has gone by, I’ve grown more and more disillusioned … Read more

Breaking into English

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IN 2016, MEXICAN ESSAYIST Mariana Oliver released her debut collection, Aves migratorias. In March 2017, she read a fragment of the book on a podcast, catching the attention of the literary translator Julia Sanches. At the time, Sanches, a former … Read more

A bird that’s breaking the tree of life

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When Josefin Stiller was growing up in Berlin, she loved reading about Greek gods in an encyclopedia of mythology. She often lost track of their relationships, however—their feuds, trysts, and betrayals—as she flipped among the entries. Frustrated, she wrote each … Read more

Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions

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So in my previous post I explored a specific (wrong) assumption that programmers tend to make about the nature of code points and text. I was asked multiple times about other assumptions we tend to make. There are a lot. … Read more

Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop

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Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2022/214 – Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2022/214 Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop Ward Beullens Abstract: This work introduces new key recovery attacks against the Rainbow … Read more