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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
Incident summary Updates - Last updated 14:35 PST May 14, 2019. We expect this to be our final update. If you are running Firefox versions 61 - 65 ...
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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better
A Better Courier, Free to Use
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroWhile there have been several rumours and reports of f...
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From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.
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Our Software Dependency Problem
For decades, discussion of software reuse was far more common than actual software reuse. Today, the situation is reversed: developers reuse software written by others every day, in the form of software dependencies, and the situation goes mostly unexamined.
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The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2019404 points166 commentscited by 6History & Retro Computing details
(Note: Thanks to the effort of a kind reader, this post is now available in audio format! The playlist for the entire series may be found here.) This is the first part of a six-part (II, III, IV, V…
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Game Loop
If there is one pattern this book couldn’t live without, this is it. Game loops are the quintessential example of a “game programming pattern”. Almost every game has one, no two are exactly alike, and relatively few programs outside of games use them.
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Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
AlphaStar is the first AI to reach the top league of a widely popular esport without any game restrictions. This January, a preliminary version of AlphaStar challenged two of the world's top players in StarCraft II, one of the most enduring and popular real-time strategy video games of all time. Since then, we have…
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Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
Let’s lead with the punchline: the question of what comes after IRC, for Mozilla, is now on my desk.
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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.
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The Illustrated Word2vec
Discussions: Hacker News (347 points, 37 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (151 points, 19 comments) Translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian “There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that…
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Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)
Update: the matplotlib pull request has been merged! See This post for a description of the XKCD functionality now built-in to matplotlib!
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Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.
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Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum
Spectrum is an open source chat app for large online communities. With the benefit of hindsight, here are the technology choices I regret.
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ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
Proton Mail disputed some of the content of the post originally published at this location. We will continue the discussion directly with Proton Mail, in particular at a meeting in …
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What is Silverblue?
You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.
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Introducing Windows Terminal
We are beyond excited to announce Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for
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Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?
Beautiful Racket
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Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.
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Wage Stagnation
[Epistemic status: I am basing this on widely-accepted published research, but I can’t guarantee I’ve understood the research right or managed to emphasize/believe the right people. Som…
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Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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What Is a Tech Company?
The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.
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Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines
Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.
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New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.