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JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations
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Learning Dexterity
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Static types in Python
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
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What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
Explaining more about the information we get from other websites and apps; how we use the data they send to us; and the controls you have.
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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Next.js 12
Next.js 12 introduces a brand-new Rust compiler, Middleware (beta), React 18 Support, Native ESM Support, URL Imports, React Server Components (alpha), and more!
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John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow crops and manage the farm business. My parents also found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers have done for millennia, my family used tools to farm. Some of those tools were tractors. Farmers now, as they have for thousands of years, rely on their ability…
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The Psychology of Money
Let me tell you the story of two investors, neither of whom knew each other, but whose paths crossed in…
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MS Paint is here to stay
MS Paint fans rejoice: The original art app isn’t going anywhere – except to the Windows Store for free!
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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
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From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…
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Vault – A tool for managing secrets
Vault is a platform for centralized secrets management, encryption as a service, and identity-based access.
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Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Note: This is the pronunciation of QwQ: /kwju:/ , similar to the word “quill”. What does it mean to think, to question, to understand? These are the deep waters that QwQ (Qwen with Questions) wades into. Like an eternal student of wisdom, it approaches every problem - be it…
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Ardour 8.0
What's new in the latest release of Ardour: great new features, quality-of-life improvements, and bugfixes
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US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
Only the Netherlands has a higher average compulsory payment wedge than the US.
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Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
NATS is a popular streaming system. Producers publish messages to streams , and consumers subscribe to those streams, fetching messages from them. Regular NATS streams are allowed to drop messages. However, NATS has a subsystem called JetStream , which uses the Raft consensus algorithm to replicate data among nodes…
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Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
Apple has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening experience.
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GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by Nebu that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or privilege. By turning it into a 97% stable privilege escalation and container escape, Google has rewarded us $92,337 in…
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Cycles X
Celebrating 10 years of the Cycles render engine, and sharing what is next.