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Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
Now that we’ve wrapped up the Anniversary Event, I wanted to give you all a couple updates.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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Electron 4.0.0
The Electron team is excited to announce that the stable release of Electron 4 is now available! You can install it from electronjs.org or from npm via npm install electron@latest. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features, and we can't wait to see what you build with them. Read more for details…
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Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity
A detailed experiment to find any statistically-significant relationship between muzzle velocity and recoil management technique.
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Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
Most machine learning tasks — from natural language processing to image classification to translation and many others — rely on derivative-free optimization to tune parameters and/or hyperparameter…
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John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
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Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
Kong 1.0 includes Service Mesh, Mutual TLS, and gRPC support; as well as a Plugin Development Kit.
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What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA
As the year draws to a close, so has EFF’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency about the mass phone surveillance program infamously known as “Hemisphere.” We won our case and freed up tons of records. (So did the Electronic Privacy Information Center...
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On VBScript
Posted by Ivan Fratric, Google Project ZeroIntroductionVulnerabilities in the VBScript scripting ...
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Introducing Project Mu
The Microsoft Devices Team is excited to announce Project Mu, the open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core leveraged by Microsoft products including both Surface and the latest releases of Hyper-V. UEFI is system software that initializes hardware during the boot process and…
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Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0, a landmark data compression solution that offers best-in-kind performance. Since then, we’ve released a variety of enhancements and advanc…
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Download all of your GitHub data
Now you can request an archive of your data from your account settings page.
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Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
Exploring container security: Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
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Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
We're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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Go Modules in 2019
What the Go team is planning for Go modules in 2019.
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LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
The LibreRouter project has developed an open source, open hardware router, customized to the needs of community-run networks.
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Writing copy for landing pages
Write copy that delights visitors, persuades prospects, and wins customers.
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Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code
Helping researchers find 0ld daysPosted by Thomas Dullien, Project ZeroExecutive summarySoftware ...
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Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
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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Envoy Proxy at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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V8 release v7.2
V8 v7.2 features high-speed JavaScript parsing, faster async-await, reduced memory consumption on ia32, public class fields, and much more!
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Dependent Haskell
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
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Clojure 1.10 release
Clojure 1.10 focuses on two major areas: improved error reporting and Java compatibility.
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Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially
ANN ARBOR—Improvisational theater training can reduce fearfulness and anxiety among teens struggling with social interactions, a new University of Michigan study suggests. School-based improv theater—performing without a script or preparation—may be effective for social phobias and anxiety disord
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Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019
The rust-analyzer Project
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