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Introducing Webpack Dashboard
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
(At the bottom of this page, you find a BibTeX reference to cite this article.)
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VeraCrypt to be audited
OSTIF is proud to announce that we have come to an agreement to fully fund an audit of VeraCrypt. Using funds that were donated by DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN , we plan to hire QuarksLab to go over the code and search for vulnerabilities and backdoors.
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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All
In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
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PyPy Tooling Upgrade: JitViewer and VMProf
We are happy to announce a major JitViewer (JV) update. JV allows you to inspect RPython's internal compiler representation (the language i...
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Ardour 5 released
Ardour 5.0 is now available for Linux, OS X and Windows. This is a major release focused on substantial changes to the GUI and major new features related to mixing, plugin use, tempo maps, scripting and more. As usual, there are also hundreds of bug fixes. Ardour 5.0 can be parallel-installed with older versions of…
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Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe
We’re building business infrastructure. As with other kinds of infrastructure (like hosting or electricity), we'd like to make it available to as broad a set of users as possible.
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Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification
I was asked to debug another weird issue on our network. Apparently every now and then a connection going through CloudFlare would time out with 522 HTTP error.
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RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops
So we have two jobs openings in the Red Hat desktop team. What we are looking for is people to help us ensure that Fedora and RHEL runs great on various desktop hardware, with a focus on laptops. Since these jobs require continuous access to a lot of new and different hardware we can not...
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Life Expectancy
People are living longer across the world, but large differences remain. Explore global data on life expectancy and how it has changed over time.
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Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 1
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?
Yes you read that correctly - a 60TB SSD. So what does that mean for cloud backup? Is a 3.6PB storage pod on the horizon? We take a look at the numbers.
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Automattic open sources Simplenote
At Automattic, we have a saying: We don’t make software for free, we make it for freedom In this spirit, we are announcing today that all of the official Simplenote client apps are now Open Source …
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DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with malicious proof of work
Eric Wustrow, University of Colorado Boulder; Benjamin VanderSloot, University of Michigan
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Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 1
In June 2016 Ravi Mody and Tim Schmeier gave a presentation at the NYC Machine Learning meetup to discuss their work on the data science…
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IPv6 Support for Amazon S3
Update October 1, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove outdated S3 buckets. As you probably know, every server and device that is connected to the Internet must have a unique IP address. Way back in 1981, RFC 791 (“Internet Protocol”) defined an IP address as a 32-bit entity, with three distinct network […]
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AWS Application Load Balancer
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just how far AWS has come since then). Elastic Load Balancing has become a key architectural component for many AWS-powered applications. In…
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Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more
FINAL UPDATE (Wednesday 9th May 2018): Arduino is back in stock! Check out the Arduino range on our store here: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/arduino -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE #2 (Friday 12th August 2017): Paul and I have spoken with Massimo Banzi…
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Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for 6M Americans
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health2016318 points147 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
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ProtonMail now the maintainer of OpenPGPjs email encryption library
OpenPGPjs is the world's most popular JavaScript PGP email encryption library and is used by millions of end users and hundreds of developers.
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Employee #1: Tumblr
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Python 3 on Google App Engine flexible environment now in beta
Developers running Python on Google App Engine have long asked for support for Python 3 and third-party Python packages. Today we're excited to announce the beta release of the Python runtime on App Engine Flexible Environment with support for Python 3.4 and 2.7. You can now develop applications in the Python version…
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The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys
Petr Švenda, Matúš Nemec, Peter Sekan, Rudolf Kvašňovský, David Formánek, David Komárek, and Vashek Matyáš, Masaryk University