MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...

[WAITZMAN, David and the BERGEN LINUX USER GROUP.] One printed IP/ICMP "ping" packet sent by carrier pigeon per RFC 1149.Small scroll of paper, 41 x 210 mm. Rolling creases visible from when attached ...

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July is upon us, and it’s time to announce this months speakers. We’re really excited to have both Harvey and Tom. Both of these speakers will be familiar faces as they’ve both spoken at DC151 quite a...

Sat 13th June 2026 – Cloth Hall Court Leeds

A three day hacker con in Sheffield. We have a day of workshops, a day of talks and partying, and a day of recovery and lunch. Everyone welcome, old to young, defence to attack, newbie to veteran. The...

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Sat 13th June 2026 – Cloth Hall Court Leeds

As it’s BSides Leeds week, we’re very fortunate to have a load of pals from North of the border visiting so we’re handing the stage over to one of our good friends from Hack Glasgow/Hack Thursday, Sco...

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The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

For our May meetup, we've got Lindsay joining us with the intriguing talk title: "Highly Likely, 007, and a touch of poison: Russian disinformation narratives and strategies." Hope as many of you as ...

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Watson's Inquisition War trilogy and novel Space Marine are unlike anything else in Warhammer 40k fiction.

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Once again, apologies for the lateness announcing this months speakers. We'll take ourselves off to the naughty step and do better next month. Anyone who's been to DC151 before will probably know bot...

Alt: A protracted and overly dramatic zoom as a man with a truly terrifying mullet opens double doors and, after pausing dramatically, states: "I'm in."

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Same as every year, we are looking for cool talks and workshops to amaze and entertain our delightful audience. We are interested in topics related to security and hacking in some way however they don...

We're slightly late announcing our speaker for this month but are excited to announce we've got John Follin with his talk "Making Shor: cryptography in a post-quantum world" We're meeting at the usua...

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RiffTrax and Shout! Studios have teamed to produce four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 with Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy

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