David Lodge

Jan 24, 2025 | thebookerprizes.com | David Lodge

Skip to main content To celebrate the legacy of novelist David Lodge following his death, we revisit his speech from the 1989 ceremony, in which, as Chair of judges, he explored how the prize sparks a vital discussion that extends beyond the literary world Written by David Lodge Publication date and time: Published January 24, 2025The 21st anniversary of the Booker Prize compels some reflection on its extraordinary success in attracting public attention to the literary novel.

Jan 24, 2025 | thebookerprizes.substack.com | David Lodge

‘Being published, getting recognition and favourable reviews, was the limit of my ambition. Perhaps it still is for most new writers of literary fiction. But now they may aspire to something more.

Oct 29, 2024 | atkinson.cornell.edu | David Lodge

As an environmental scientist, I want to believe that the energy transition is inevitable because rational humanity grasps the policy implications of the unbending laws of atmospheric science: The climate is changing because of the combustion of fossil fuels. However, truths, inconvenient or not, rarely drive social and political movements on any linear trajectory.

May 3, 2024 | pentestpartners.com | David Lodge

LUCKY13 is more an attack than a vulnerability LUCKY13 was patched over a decade ago … so it’s really unlikely that your server is vulnerable now It’s an implementation issue Disabling CBC ciphers is still a good idea … but not because of susceptibility to LUCKY13 There is no material risk in this issue Accurate remote detection is rarely possible It’s been a while since I wrote a “Vulnerabilities that (mostly) aren’t” post, but a recent discussion in our pen testing teams brought about a...

Feb 13, 2024 | pentestpartners.com | David Lodge

Android has a number of different types of components that a program or app can instantiate to interact with the user or other programs. Recently I’ve been looking at exported as an interesting way to manipulate information that other apps have stored. A content provider is what it sounds like – it creates a standard mechanism for allowing access to centralised data. An example may be a fitness tracker could allow a central database of activity which could be queried by other apps to pull out data.