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Firefox finally plugs the leak
Leaky add-ons are a big problem, but there’s been lots of action relating to them recently. What follows is a summary of the situation and a request for help from currently Nightly testers who use add-ons.
Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...
A year ago we put Sortfolio up for sale. We entertained a variety of offers, met with a few potential suitors in person, and negotiated numbers. Ultimately nothing came together. Then we shelved the process so we could focus all of our efforts on designing and building the new Basecamp. Sort…
Video Stabilization on YouTube
Posted by Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa, Research at Google One thing we have been working on within Research at Google is deve...
Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier
At BigML we believe that over the next few years automated, data-driven decisions and data-driven applications are going to change the world. In fact, we think it will be the biggest shift in busi…
New PHP Vulnerability:?-s may expose source code for mod_cgi
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
MIT and Harvard announce edX
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
Three things you should never put in your database
There are several things that are not usually appropriate to put into a relational database
OpenBSD 5.1 released
OpenBSD 5.1
Android Ported to C#
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry
Today is a good day. Whether you're employed at Moz, a fan of what we've built, a Seattle-startup supporter or even tangentially involved in the field of web marketing, there's reason to celebrate. After 5 years of organic growth (from our initial funding in 2007) and two tough, failed attempts at…
Google open sources key piece of Street View technology
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
PEP 393 – Flexible String Representation
The Unicode string type is changed to support multiple internal representations, depending on the character with the largest Unicode ordinal (1, 2, or 4 bytes). This will allow a space-efficient representation in common cases, but give access to full UC...
Xfce 4.10 released
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8.
New Particle Discovered at CERN
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