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And that’s my quota of luck for the day... Wordle 367 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We are getting close to a very big milestone: 100 million question attempts on Isaac Physics and Isaac Computer Science combined! Could you be the 100-millionth attempter? 👀

New: we've obtained the code the FBI used to backdoor an encrypted messaging app, and we're publishing parts of it today. Code shows app created a 'ghost' contact that hid itself from users contact lists and silently received every message. More findings: vice.com/en/article/v7v…

Wow. A best paper prize! Thank you @mansoor_a_r, Diana Vasile, Daniel Hug (@🏠) & Ross Anderson for being excellent collaborators as well as everyone who came to our workshops & helped us understand the challenges. Blog writeup: lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/03/11/cov… Paper: petsymposium.org/2022/files/pap…

Today is the day! It's the launch of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre at Cambridge Computer Science 🎉 Guest speaker: Mark Guzdial Other speakers: Alastair Beresford, Carrie Anne Philbin MBE We look forward to welcoming you all ✨ raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry…

I've been looking for binary number plates on my visits to Greece for a while now, and I've finally found one. (I know, it's actually three uppercase omicrons followed by two ones then a zero...) Assuming plates are issued in order, then someone is the proud owner of "ΟΟΟ1".

And talking of a #niceplacetowork, we have 6 Assistant/Associate Professorships to fill in areas from Algorithms & Complexity to Vision, Perception & Robotics. See all 6 jobs at ow.ly/NobH50L0OFb

The Fifth UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium, MobiUK23 will happen again this year. Please send your best work by 15th Apri 23! mobiuk.org/2023/ Kate Farrahi 🇨🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇧 @paulpatras Alastair Beresford nic lane Fahim Kawsar Alex Rogers Mirco Musolesi Sarah Clinch

Delighted that the second edition of our book Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Schools has been published today! Read more about it here: computingeducationresearch.org/2nd-edition-of… Thanks to my co- ditors: Nicol R. Howard, PhD Erik Barendsen and Carsten Schulte 1/2

Interesting article from Arvind Narayanan which teases apart information propagation in online social media platforms. I particularly liked the long view, with an historic tour through subscription, network and algorithmic approaches. Well worth a read. knightcolumbia.org/content/unders…

The Fifth UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium @MobiUK2023 deadline for abstract submission is 15th April: don't miss it! mobiuk.org/2023/

There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/information-te…

The @MobiUK2023 programme is out. mobiuk.org/2023/ We have amazing invited speakers and student talks. Registration is open and very cheap! Join in! [link to programme mobiuk.org/2023/programme…]

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to talk about efficient multicast on Mix networks (our Rollercoaster paper 🎢) at the TUM Blockchain Salon. It was a great event! youtube.com/watch?v=_meZsU…

Would you like to work with us as a software engineer and researcher in Ed Tech Cambridge Computer Science? Build and help run Isaac Physics and AdaComputerScience.org, supporting up to 800,000 question attempts a week? Collaborate with Raspberry Pi Foundation? Apply here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41922/

Artifact evaluation is cool, but tricky if your project includes a hardware prototype.. Luckily the chairs arranged a way for us to demonstrate it in a virtual session. To be published at USENIX soon :) #poweringprivacy #beingthespecialcase

Looking forward to presenting our paper on anonymity networks, smartphones, and energy at USENIX Security (first talk on Friday in track 6). See you next week in California! Alastair Beresford usenix.org/conference/use… #usesec23 🧵👇

Please come along to hear about our latest work in our showcase series of short research talks Cambridge Computer Science on 20th September. Free registration. Looking forward to seeing you there!

We’re hosting CANS 2024 in Cambridge, 24-27th Sept. This is a premier forum for presenting research in the field of cryptology and network security; please submit your papers by 14th April. More details here: 2024.cansconference.org/call-for-papers

Scammers persuade ad firm they are talking with a BBC presenter. The firm then pays the scammers a fee to use the presenter’s likeness to promote a product. The presenter is (not unreasonably) upset, the ad company apologetic, and the scammers 20k richer. theguardian.com/technology/202…