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Linker, can you spare a meg? (2021)
Tailscale on iOS runs as a special kind of app, a Network Extension. This lets us run in the background, so we can secure traffic from all of your applications, without them having to change anything. But with this power comes a memory straightjacket. Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them…
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Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
Want to know the best places to deploy your apps now that Heroku is ending their free dynos? We'll tell you.
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Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed
Researchers at TNO have been the first to develop a method that will require 200 times less iridium for electrolysis.
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Mitmproxy 9: WireGuard Mode
We’re excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 9, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings support for raw UDP and DTLS, a new WireGuard proxy mode, and major usability improvements.
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Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime
An idiomatic Protocol Buffers library for TypeScript and JavaScript is now available.
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Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability
The GlobalSign blog is the top resource to see what's trending in public key infrastructure (PKI), SSL/TSL, digital signing solutions, cybersecurity & more!
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SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS
WebAssembly , a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to…
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The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberal's got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI.
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Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
As announced previously, Factorio is now available for Nintendo Switch. You can find it on the Nintendo eShop in your region. I hope you will enjoy it. Remember that if you are not sure, you can try the demo. I recommend playing through the tutorial campaign even if you are a veteran player, as it gradually teaches…
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2022.
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Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
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Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
Explore the diversity of wildlife across the planet. What are species threatened with? What can we do to prevent biodiversity loss?
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Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type
Improving software memory safety is a key security objective for engineering teams across the industry. Here we begin a journey into the XNU kernel at the core of iOS and explore the intricate work our engineering teams have done to harden the memory allocator and make our software much more difficult to exploit.
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Deno 1.27
Deno 1.27 ships with major improvements for IDEs, better support for npm packages, navigator.language Web API and more.
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We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
Starting in 2020, we at Pushbullet began receiving more and more Play Store policy violation notifications from Google. At first the violation notifications seemed plausible, if a bit abrasive. At this point though, I’m pretty sure we’re being picked on by an AI. We’ll see what you think after you hear our story.
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Making an SSH client the hard way
Explore Tailscale SSH Console, a web-based SSH client that simplifies connecting to your devices. Learn how Tailscale integrates WebAssembly, WireGuard, and SSH for secure, password-free access right from your browser."
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Ad blocking is under attack (2017)
Well, this is huge, so I'd like to draw your attention to what's happening right now. This is a very alarming case, and it concerns every ad blocker user.
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Where did all the “reject” buttons come from?
More and more websites have added an option to say “no” to cookies and other tracking- as foreseen by the GDPR. Where did this trend come from?
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Multiranges in Postgres
Multiranges are a new feature in PostgreSQL 14. Here's a brief introduction on how to use them - learn the basics & important new uses.
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Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
(This is a modified version of the keynote talk given by Rob Pike at the SPLASH 2012 conference in Tucson, Arizona, on October 25, 2012.)
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IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform. #influxdb
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Oracle Contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK
GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation.
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Most people don’t finish online job applications
A recent audit of the Fortune 500 showed that job application flow has improved, but there are still too many steps involved in getting applicants to the finish line.
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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea
With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way.
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How to request removal of your contact info from Google search results
A new tool in Google Search can help you easily control whether your personally-identifiable information can be found in Search results.
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Google added HEVC support in Chrome
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.