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PostgreSQL 11 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 11, the latest version of the world’s most advanced …
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TSA announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”
Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience , making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or…
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Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay
Stripe + Twilio <Pay> lets businesses easily and securely accept payments over the phone.
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Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Building a Titan: Better security through a tiny chip
At the Made by Google event last week, we talked about the combination of AI + Software + Hardware to help organize your information. To better protect that information at a hardware level, our new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL devices include a Titan M chip.We briefly introduced Titan M and some of its benefits on our…
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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
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YC Top Companies List
We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies [http://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies]. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest growing alumni in the YC community…
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Librem 5 general development report – October
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them
Even when you try to do good, you can end up doing accidental harm. But there are ways you can minimise the risks.
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App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime
Google Cloud is announcing a new Go 1.11 runtime for App Engine, with fewer limits on app structure.
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Do We Worship Complexity?
Complexity is the most important challenge in software development. So it is important to always strive to eliminate complexity. But sometimes we worship complexity - and that can make complexity problems unsolvable.
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Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Failure Rates
Backblaze has 99,636 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in our data centers.
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GitHub's game jam returns next month
Build a game this November in our annual month-long game jam
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Removing Old Versions of TLS
In March of 2020, Firefox will remove support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
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Modernizing Transport Security
Posted by David Benjamin, Chrome networking *Updated on October 17, 2018 with details about changes in other browsers TLS (Transport Lay...
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Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs
Earlier this year we funded Callisto [https://www.projectcallisto.org/], a non-profit dedicated to building tech to combat sexual assault and harassment. During their time at YC, we helped Callisto send a survey to 125 of the 384 female founders who have participated in YC.1 They were asked if they’d ever been…
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A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser
With Google’s release of Project Stream this month, there has been a lot of recent interest in low latency game streaming for cloud gaming. Google’s first entry into the arena is Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, with the kicker that it runs from within Chrome! This kind of makes sense as a distribution channel for…
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
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Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence
Air pollution can have a “huge” negative effect on cognitive intelligence – especially amongst older men – according to a study released this past August.
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Google and Android have your back by protecting your backups
Posted by Troy Kensinger, Technical Program Manager, Android Security and Privacy Android is all about choice. As such, Android strives to...
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How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
UPDATE: The Next Web wrote a story about my findings…
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Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
Mastodon was first announced to the public through Hacker News, a link aggregator site for programmers, on October 6, 2016. Now we’re celebrating the 2 year anniversary! 🎉
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Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact
Folks lauded today that Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN)'s limited patent non-aggression pact, suggesting that perhaps it will bring peace in our time regarding Microsoft's historical patent aggression. While today's announcement is a step forward, we call on Microsoft to make this just the…
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Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours
Air India Express flight IX611 struck an ILS lighting tower and damaged a nearby brick wall at the departure end of RWY 27 in Trichy on departure.