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SHA-1 signatures are now considered unsafe.

John Gilmore made an attempt to convince Linus that module hash functions in Git was a good idea. This is some of the email chain. This was actually sent to Cryptography mailing list on 26/02/2017, but the bulk of the content is from 2005.

This is the official advisory on the long story that started with [WebKit breaking their SVN repository](https://lobste.rs/s/fnxwdk/webkit_breaks_their_svn_with_shattered). After a long discussion and several iterations of fixes to the code, it was decided that outright rejecting such content is ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction. Scientists at James Cook University have reported an unexpected discovery. Epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs without showing any measurable increase in energy ...

A juvenile great white shark was captured off the coast of Spain, leading researchers to investigate further and confirm the species’ rare but ongoing presence in the Spanish Mediterranean. On April 20, 2023, local fishermen operating off the eastern peninsula unexpectedly caught a juvenile great wh...

A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are known to drive white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) away from key gathering areas, b...