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New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new ...
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PyPy 2.6.0 released
PyPy 2.6.0 - Cameo Charm We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.6.0, only two months after PyPy 2.5.1. We are particulary happy to update cf...
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Section 215 Expires For Now
Senate to Vote on USA FREEDOM Act Later in the WeekSection 215 has expired. At least for now.The law that the NSA used to authorize its collection of vast amounts of information about the telephone calls of ordinary Americans is no more. Even though it’s likely temporary, it’s a good thing and we...
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Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee
We do penetration testing, source code auditing and vulnerability assessments
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Vinod Khosla: I believe 70% of VCs reduce the potential of a company
Read insights from cutting-edge research by Stanford GSB faculty and global industry leaders on topics like management, entrepreneurship, and careers.
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ES6 in Depth: Destructuring
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...
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Android M Developer Preview and Tools
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A series by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain Security Vulnerabilities
Docker Hub is a central repository for Docker developers to pull and push container images. We performed a detailed study on Docker Hub images to understand how vulnerable they are to security threats. Surprisingly, we found that more than 30% of images in official repositories are highly susceptible to a variety of…
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Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Fedora 22 released
We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions. If that’s all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download — or for current users, run the upgrade tool. In addition to the latest…
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Critical fix for a potential data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.4
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update with multiple functionality and security fixes to all supported versions of …
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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted
PEP 3107 introduced syntax for function annotations, but the semantics were deliberately left undefined. There has now been enough 3rd party usage for static type analysis that the community would benefit from a standard vocabulary and baseline tools w...