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Marcus Bell
Marcus Bell covers applied security: authentication, TLS, phishing, and the everyday decisions that keep accounts and data safe. He focuses on turning advice people usually ignore into steps they will actually follow.
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ECDSA vs Schnorr: MuSig2 Cuts Multisig Bytes 45% [2026]
Bitcoin ran on one signature scheme for twelve years. Then, in November 2021, the Taproot upgrade quietly swapped in a second one,…
Cloudflare’s DNSSEC Turns Post-Quantum: Sigs Up 38x [2026]
Cloudflare spent the second week of September 2026 rewriting two pieces of internet plumbing that most engineers never think about: the TLS…
Love and Deepspace Pity Odds: 1% Rate, $265 Cap [2026]
Short answer: pulling for a limited card in Love and Deepspace costs an average of about 71 pulls to guarantee the featured…
Groth16 vs PLONK: 192-Byte Proofs, 300K Gas Cost [2026]
Every zk-rollup team building on Ethereum in 2026 eventually hits the same fork in the road: Groth16 or PLONK. Both are zk-SNARK…
Level Up! Orchestral Game Music Set for MIGW 2026 Oct. 10
A community orchestra in Melbourne’s outer south-east just landed one of the more unusual bookings in this year’s Melbourne International Games Week…
Bedrock vs Azure Foundry vs Vertex AI: $50 Gap [2026]
Three companies now sell the same basic product: on-demand access to frontier AI models through a cloud API. Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft’s Azure…
IDScan Fallout: 10M ID Cards, 579K Medical Files [2026]
IDScan.net has confirmed what security researchers first flagged earlier this month: the identity-verification company sits at the center of a breach that…
IDScan.net Confirms Breach: 153M IDs, 9-Day Gap [2026]
Nine days after security journalist Brian Krebs first traced a dark web listing of more than 153 million driver’s licenses back to…
Cloud Waste Hits 29% as AI Spend Ends 5-Year Drop [2026]
For five straight years, the share of cloud spending that companies simply threw away had been shrinking. That streak just broke. Flexera’s…
GKE Fragnesia Bug (CVE-2026-46300) Grants Root [2026]
Google Kubernetes Engine customers got an unwelcome September surprise. A security bulletin quietly updated on the Google Cloud documentation site discloses two…
