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Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine neutralize the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 lineage) while two doses show significantly reduced neutralization titers Data indicate that a third dose of BNT162b2 increases the neutralizing antibody titers by 25-fold…
Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks
We’re releasing Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language which enables researchers with no CUDA experience to write highly efficient GPU code—most of the time on par with what an expert would be able to produce.
State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
A deep dive into Adaptive Projections, a novel way to make interactive maps more accurate without compromises to user experience or rendering quality.
How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado
Bike Index tracks a Colorado-to-Mexico stolen bike pipeline - and learns things along the way
OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist
Wider availability made possible by safety progress.
.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
GitHub has done a lot of work in the last six months to improve performance for large monorepos.
Zig 0.9.0
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most effecient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
NixOS 21.05
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
From Cloudflare’s headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer last autumn to YouTube’s summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, there's been a surge in “voluntary” platform censorship. Companies—under pressure from lawmakers, shareholders, and the public alike—have ramped up restrictions on speech,...
SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist and Marco Tagliasacchi, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research Audio codecs are used to efficiently...
Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
The PostgreSQL Core Team and the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada (PGCAC) wish to provide clarification on the ownership and …
How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
Footnotes let you reference relevant information without disrupting the flow of what you're trying to say: Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it. [^1]: My reference.…
Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store
Announcing PWABuilder's new iOS platform. Publish your PWA to the App Store and gain new iPhone and iPad users.
How Audio Fingerprinting Works
An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets
Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.
This Year in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Factorio Future Plans
Hello, the 1.1 release is the final release of the vanilla game. It will be maintained, so bugfixes, simple modding interface additions, or minor tweaks can happen, but that's about it.
An update on Android's audio latency
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
A brief history of Rust at Facebook
Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is o…