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We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.0.0. As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz file. The checksums are: $ sha256sum…
Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars
We are splitting our database into Main and CI to improve the scalability and reliability of GitLab.com.
With an eye toward performance, interoperability, or legacy concerns, low-level system software often must parse binary encoded data formats. Few tools are available for this task, especially since the formats involve a mixture of arithmetic and data dependence, beyond what can be handled by typical parser generators…
We have a plan to prevent 2 billion tons CO2e in the next 10 years by collecting and destroying superpotent refrigerants.
Developer Spotlight is a series highlighting interesting Swift developers from around the world. This post is authored by Ron Avitzur, author of the Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator.
Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected SessionManager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once propagated, SessionManager enables a wide range of malicious activities, starting from collecting emails…
The W3C Member review of the Decentralized Identifier (DID) 1.0 Proposed Recommendation concluded with Formal Objections from three organizations.
The previous release was version 8.2 in December 2019. Since the latest source code is always available on GitHub, many have already picked up later patch versions (there are more than 5000 of them!). Therefore the changes have already been tried out by many users. On top of that bugs have been fixed, security issues…
MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was…
Adam Fisher’s exegesis on why he believes that despite the recent crash, crypto will rise again to the detriment of society.
Today, we’re launching three new members of the Raspberry Pi Pico family: Raspberry Pi Pico W ($6), Pico H ($5) and Pico WH ($7).
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
⦁ Battersea Power Station has revealed the fully restored Control Room A, the first of the Grade II* listed building’s two original Control Rooms which
TikTok has violated privacy regulations before, and they are in position to share millions of American users' data with the Chinese government.
Since the introduction of subscriptions 7 years ago, we have not increased the pricing of our IDEs, .NET Tools, or the All Products Pack. During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter. However, we are at the point where we need to increase our…
Penn State researchers found that the maximum wet-bulb temperature humans can endure is lower than previously thought — about 31°C wet-bulb or 87°F at 100% humidity — even for young, healthy subjects. The temperature for older populations, who are more vulnerable to heat, is likely even lower.
YOLOv6: review and comparison of the next generation object detection.
Our huge annual release, Thunderbird 102, brings highly-requested features, visual refinements + quality-of-life upgrades to our 20M+ users.
* We have developed three techniques to identify ransomware operators' dark websites hosted on public IP addresses, allowing us to uncover previously unknown infrastructure for the DarkAngels, Snatch, Quantum and Nokoyawa ransomware groups. * The methods we used to identify the public internet IPs involved matching…
Execute custom logic at the moment of request, pushing personalization to the edge with exceptional performance.
Learn how to benchmark SQLite and PostgreSQL databases.
