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Humanitarian airship seeks world’s most-powerful hydrogen fuel cell

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) “Ironic” probably isn’t the right word to describe the lack of public information about Sergey Brin’s airship company. Who better to know the worth of staying private than one of the co-creators of a search engine that changed the world, after all. But to those who know where […]

Pompeii tomb reveals formerly enslaved man’s rise to wealth and power

Enlarge (credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park) Archaeologists working in Pompeii recently unearthed the tomb and partially mummified remains of a man who died a few decades before the eruption. The man, Marcus Venerius Secundio, according to his epitaph, had once been enslaved, but by the end of his life he’d obtained enough wealth and status to […]

FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Enlarge / ♫ Pop goes the tunnel! ♫ (credit: Aurich Lawson) Earlier this week, we covered progress integrating an implementation of the WireGuard VPN protocol into the FreeBSD kernel. Two days later, there’s an update—kernel-mode WireGuard has been moved out of FreeBSD 13 development entirely for the time being. The change only affects kernel-mode WireGuard. User-mode […]