The New York Times

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

Shutdown pay: The U.S. military is accepting a private donation of $130 million to help pay the 1.3 million active duty troops during the government shutdown, the Defense Department said Friday. The ...
WPBF

Python Cowboy says tree stand facing Air Force One’s runway may have been there for two years

NEW INFORMATION TONIGHT ABOUT THE HUNTING STAND FOUND IN A TREE WITH A DIRECT SIGHT LINE TO WHERE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S PLANE LANDS IN WEST PALM BEACH. OUR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, TERRI PARKER, HAS ...
GitHub

Critical: Weak Key Derivation Function Enables Offline Brute-Force Attacks

Shadowsocks uses a weak MD5-based key derivation function (KDF) that makes it feasible for passive attackers to perform offline brute-force attacks against recorded traffic when passwords lack ...
The New York Times

Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean

About 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships are in the region as the Trump administration increases pressure on Venezuela. Small combat ship U.S.S. Wichita Six Reaper drones ...
Ars Technica

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

My knowledge of encryption algorithms ends just past alphabet ciphers, but I'm willing to bet that SPQR as an initialism was not chosen by accident. That was a lot easier when it supported SMS also so ...