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- More stories can hit the frontpage which includes users who have less followers. - The current algorithm of the frontpage can reside at 30+ diggs.

- More content on the frontpage means a lot of content to discover giving users a reason to spend more time on the frontpage.

Thoughts?

Improving on his last post about creating a bytecode compiler in PHP, the Sankuru blog has a new post in the series looking at extending the basic compiler to add support for if/while and do while logic.

Help Net Security: "Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm. They managed to come up with a clever new attack that can recover the secret key four times easier than anticipated by experts."

The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living?

Help Net Security: "Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the performance of cracking password hashes based on the DES algorithm on CPUs."

Is Google News helping to spread government propaganda?

"He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake." So the song goes, but Sleepingtime.org has taken your bed time schedule from twitter to their algorithm, and it really does know when you've been sleeping.

Just put in your name, and it will tell you when and low long you sleep, according to them. It is eerily accurate.

Chang claims that he collaborated on Google's original PageRank algorithm and should be recognized as a company founder.