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No matter how much anyone tries to sugar coat it, a service like Have I been pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) which deals with billions of records hacked out of other peoples' systems is always going to sit in a grey area. There are degrees, of course; at one end
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Four years ago, I broke my comment section by declaring that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop proposal had no merit, combining technical criticism with expressions like “barf ride” and ̶…
.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.
Deep dive into the new DWARF-based stack unwinder using eBPF.
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
Meta is not wanting or “threatening” to leave Europe and any reporting that implies we do is simply not true.
I was at SFMOMA with Erika a few weekends ago and we saw an exhibit showing the work of Lebbeus Woods – a futuristic architect and illustrator.
TL;DR: The how and why of the new 6502 emulator in the chips project.
OK OK, I couldn't resist that title but it probably goes a bit far. Let me try for a little more nuance:
It’s a fascinating concept but I’d like to see a comparison toDr. Young Bae’s laser thruster concept for solar system travel.
Discover how prover-verifier games improve the legibility of language model outputs, making AI solutions clearer, easier to verify, and more trustworthy for both humans and machines.
Question for Quote Investigator: I was looking through a collection of woefully inaccurate pronouncements delivered by experts, and I saw a remark attributed to Ken Olsen, a prominent computer industry pioneer who founded the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which built minicomputers. DEC was perfectly positioned…
How do you debug an application, library or an entire system with multiple processes? One answer: tracing. An introduction into bpftrace, and an overview of the Linux tracing ecosystem (DTrace, eBPF, uprobes, etc).
Cause a series of sequential operations to appear instantaneous or simultaneous.
Most strings found on the Internet are encoded using a particular unicode format called UTF-8. However, not all strings of bytes are valid UTF-8. The rules as to what constitute a valid UTF-8 string are somewhat arcane. Yet it seems important to quickly validate these strings before you consume them. In a previous…
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
Webex is rolling out the AV1 video codec into production early next year, bringing our media quality to the next level.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Since the publication of its first edition in 1984 and its second edition in 1996, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) has influenced co...
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Posted by Maddie Stone, Project ZeroIntroductionOn October 3, 2019, we disclosed issue 1942 (CVE-...
What if PostgreSQL didn’t need VACUUM at all? This seems hard to imagine. After all, PostgreSQL uses multi-version concurrency control (MVC...
That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines." Then you'll have other people say…
If you’ve been on the internet today, you’ve probably interacted with a neural network. They’re a type of machine learning algorithm that’s used for everything from language translation to finance modeling. One of their specialties is image recognition. Several companies - including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and…
