tech, startups, internet

USV’s slow hunch.

A rare interview with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. “Since founding USV in 2003, Fred and Brad have backed companies like Twitter, Etsy, Cloudflare, and Coinbase while developing an investment thesis focused on enabling new forms of value creation through […]

tech, startups, internet

There’s a new DNS in town. 

Cloudflare launched 1.1.1.1, a new privacy-first DNS resolver. This is the service that you never think about that translates domain names (like hipavel.com) into IP addresses (like 104.24.96.129). “Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see […]

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Lava Lamps are being used for encryption. 

Computers don’t do random numbers very well. So, security firm Cloudflare decided to let a wall of lava lamps handle the randomizing instead. The array of over 100 lava lamps in assorted colors is in their lobby for all to […]