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Finnish EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) is gravely concerned over a draft law on Internet surveillance. The bill that the country’s current government is in the process of preparing will grant the military and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) the authority to conduct electronic mass…
Here at Google Cloud, our goal is to enable our users and customers to be successful with options, high performance and value. We're committed to open innovation, and look forward to working with industry partners on platform and infrastructure designs.
A new retrospective study of the health records of prostate cancer patients supports an association between androgen deprivation therapy and future risk of dementia.
Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been working on improving that. This post covers how I’ve done this, and should be of interest to anybody else who wants…
We’re building the Model 01, a hackable ergonomic keyboard with mechanical keyswitches, programmable RGB LEDs, opensource firmware, and a…
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
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Proof that job interviews done by incompetent people are irrelevant.
Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure…
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
Law to be introduced in 2017 The use of open standards is to be made mandatory for public administrations in the Netherlands. A law proposed by MP Astrid Oosenbrug was adopted by the Lower House of...
In a recent study in Nature, we introduce a form of memory-augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer, and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generated stories, family trees, and even a map of the London Underground…
Going on-prem can be a handful, especially maintaining those deployments. Here's how we use Kubernetes and our own tooling to help scale those efforts.
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Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
We're pleased to announce the release of PyPy3 v5.5.0. Coming four months after PyPy3.3 v5.2, it improves compatibility with Python 3.3 (3.3...
Serverless, Inc. has brought Serverless Framework V.1 out of beta and also closed a seed round from Trinity Ventures.
Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.
The latest Signal release for iPhone, Android, and Desktop now includes support for disappearing messages. The timer has come With this update, any conversation can be configured to delete sent and received messages after a specified interval. The configuration applies to all parties of a convers...
At Localytics we build command line interfaces that manage our infrastructure and processes. This is our list of best practices that we’ve learned.
