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While there are no absolutes in computer security, we design, build and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the goal to protect customers' code and data. We harden our architecture at multiple layers, with components that include Google-designed hardware, a Google-controlled firmware stack, Google-curated OS…
Electric and autonomy are rolling through the car industry, changing everything about it. But though they transform gasoline and car accidents, they could change a lot more besides - everything from cigarettes to parking. It's the second-order consequences that are hardest to see, but most interesti
Monospace is the typical choice that communicates writing. With iA Writer Duospace, we went a step ahead. What makes Duo better than mono?
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There are lots of edge cases I hadn't considered, and it's very inconsistent between browsers. Here's what I found…
What with the arrival of the category-defining Commodore VIC-20 and the dramatic growth of the British PC market, 1981 has provided us with no shortage of new machines and other technical developments to talk about. Yet I’ve saved the biggest event of all for last: the introduction of the IBM PC, the debut of an…
tl;dr: this is not an audit and I take no responsibility for your backups, but I had a quick look at the crypto and I think I’m going to use restic for my personal backups.
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Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...
Postgres Explain Visualizer (Pev) is a tool I wrote to make EXPLAIN output easier to grok. It creates a graphical representation of the query plan.
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Instructors of “Introduction to programming” courses know that students are willing to blame the failures of their programs on anything. Sorting routine discards half of the data? “That might be a Windows virus!” Binary search always fails? “The Java compiler is acting funny today!” More experienced programmers know…
Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:
Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and general purpose computation.
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research ScientistsStandard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one ...
Big companies like to bury unpleasant news on Fridays: A few weeks ago, Facebook announced they have decided to dig in on their patent clause addition to the React license, even after Apache had sa…
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