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How the .0001% Made Its Money
America’s .0001% is becoming more meritocratic - to an extent.
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Ghost Launches to The Public
Today we are very proud to announce the first public release of the Ghost blogging platform to the public. Following three weeks of intense testing after launching [https://ghost.org/changelog/launch/] to our 6,000 Kickstarter backers, today we are releasing an updated Ghost 0.3.2 to everyone
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Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License
Dear Google, There has been quite a bit of news lately that you have applied for a patent on bill splitting. It's a helpful tool—we've all been to restaurants or lived with housemates and have needed a convenient way of calculating and tracking who owes what. But this technology already exists—and...
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The war on drugs is a broken business model
We challenge unacceptable issues and systems for good. See how we lift entrepreneurs, communities and ideas for a more just, equitable and peaceful world.
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The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government
In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the US government. With…
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Lithium Battery Pack Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard
As with our previous posts, you can skim the photos and captions for a quick read or dive into the text for more details. The power capability of Boosted's drivetrain would be useless without a...
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Going Beyond Vulnerability Rewards
Posted by Michal Zalewski, Google Security Team We all benefit from the amazing volunteer work done by the open source community. That’s w...
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Firefox OS Update Adds New Features, Performance Improvements
Just weeks after the first Firefox OS phones hit the market, an update is being made available adding new features, support for a number of new languages and significant performance ...
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This one […]
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Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone
At Google I/O earlier this year, we added PHP, the fourth language runtime on Google App Engine in Limited Preview. Today we’re moving to P...
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Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked
There is nothing here so move right along.
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Making a Living Collecting Cans
Why is San Francisco, one of the most liberal, environmentally conscious cities in the country, systematically shutting down recycling centers that have been so important to reducing litter and offering low income individuals a safety net?
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta
We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time.
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Whatever happened to due process?
This morning I received the following email: Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Dear Sir or Madam, Re: Website domain name suspension request #2 On the 24th September 2013, EasyDNS Technologies was emailed a domain suspension request for the following domain(s) that to date we have not received a reply nor seen…
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by…
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Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features
Social Fixer for Facebook is a FREE browser extension that fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make Facebook more fun and efficient
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Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide
In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with […]
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Ethiopian Binary Math
Today, a witch doctor practices computer arithmetic. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. The scene is a remote Ethiopian village in 1940. A Farmer offers his herd of 34 goats for sale…
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Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word
President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made a...
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Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon
We are pleased to announce that btcd , our full-node bitcoind alternative written in Go, is finally ready for public testing!