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Go 1.5 is released
Go 1.5 adds a new, much faster garbage collector, more parallelism by default, go tool trace, and more.
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Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Bootstrap 4 alpha
Today is a special day for Bootstrap. Not only is it our fourth birthday, but after a year of development, we're finally shipping the first alpha release of…
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GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative
We're very excited to announce that we'll ship GitLab Mattermost, an open source, on-premises messaging app (like Slack) along with GitLab.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Eigenvectors, Covariance, PCA and Entropy
The Eclipse Deeplearning4j Project. Eclipse Deeplearning4j has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice Team
A couple of weeks ago I visited my mother back home in Norway. She had gotten a new laptop some time ago that my brother-in-law had set up for her. As usual when I come for a visit I was asked to look at some technical issues my mother was experiencing with her computer. Anyway,...
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Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US
On Apr 14 2015, the Virginia State Board of Elections immediately decertified use of the AVS WinVote touchscreen Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine. This seems pretty minor, but it received a tremendous amount of pushback from some local election officials. In this post, I’ll explain how we got to that…
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Canada's Quiet Weakening of Communications Encryption
This article outlines some of the federal government of Canada’s successful and unsuccessful attempts to weaken encryption standards.
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Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Webmaker for Android
Mozilla is excited to announce that Webmaker for Android emerges from beta today. You can download the new version of our free, open source app from Google
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New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Weakening Resistance to Copyright Proposals
When we wrote about the intermediary liability provisions in a reported May 2015 leak of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) last month, we hadn't actually seen the text. But thanks to the publication of that leak by Knowledge Ecology International yesterday and...
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CPAN is 20
Perl hackers have now, as of today the 16th August 2015, been uploading Perl modules onto CPAN via PAUSE for 20 years. Andreas König, who did that first upload, is still releasing to CPAN, and as I write this his most recent upload is the same module that was first released to CPAN.
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Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think
Koko the gorilla is best known for a lifelong study to teach her a silent form of communication, American Sign Language. But some of the simple sounds she has learned may change the perception that humans are the only primates with the capacity for speech.
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Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
Recently we wrote about Jeep Cherokee hack incident. At Black Hat security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained, how exactly that hack was done
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What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks
We have now worked with over 200 companies to help them impress investors and raise capital for businesses through designing pitch decks.
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Open Sourcing Our SDKs
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Android libstagefright still exploitable
Update (2015-08-13 1:16pm CST): We’ve been in contact with Zimperium and are working with them to provide coverage for detection of this flaw through their Stagefright Detector app. They have been very responsive (more so than the affected vendor) and we plan to alert them of similar flaws we’ve recently discovered…
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Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
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Ember.js 2.0 Released
Ember 2.0 is not a traditional major release. After thirteen point releases in almost two years, we're taking a turn to focus entirely on sweeping out built-up cruft as a...
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Announcing Docker ToolBox
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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