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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
Announcing Fly Machines
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java
Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend…
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
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Encrypted Client Hello
We're excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.
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React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. A few days ago, we wrote a post about upcoming changes to our legacy lifecycle methods, including gradual migration strategies. In React 16.3.0, we are adding a few new lifecycle methods to assist with that migration. We are also…
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Oh-Auth – Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts
OAuth Account Takeover. Salt Labs shows how hackers could abuse OAuth to take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak.
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Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
TigerBeetle is an Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) database built for double-entry accounting with a strong emphasis on safety and speed. It builds on the Viewstamped Replication (VR) consensus protocol to offer Strong Serializable consistency. Unlike general-purpose databases, TigerBeetle stores only accounts…
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Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3
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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.
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Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure
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Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath
Yahoo Holdings and Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla on December 1, 2017, claiming that we improperly terminated the agreement between Mozilla and Yah
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and…
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An update on Android's audio latency
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly...
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Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)
What is Sound ID? Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning
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AI is not our future
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
It's a small but persistent emoji query: one that finds new life whenever there's a new development in the "stonks" discourse: why is the upward line on 📈 Chart Increasing displayed in the seemingly-counterintuitive color red? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, but is an
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Someone attacked our company
At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to attack and destroy our company. Here’s how we stopped them.
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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…
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