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Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off
Workspace admins can no longer deactivate Google activity tracking for their users, Google says this is helping people.
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MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Read the post on "Announcing MirageOS 4.0.0" from our blog.
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Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car
Being able to accurately determine your location anywhere on the planet is a useful technological trick. But when tracking isn’t done by you, but to you—without your knowledge or consent—it’s a violation of your privacy. That’s why at EFF we’ve long fought against dragnet surveillance, mobile...
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Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
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Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles,' published March 28, 2022. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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Brutal OS reached milestone 4
The Year of the Brutal Desktop
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
A new type of ultraviolet light that is safe for people destroyed more than 98% of airborne microbes in a room within five minutes, a study found.
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Restic 0.13.0
For downloading the new release and to see a more detailed list of important changes, please head over to GitHub . If you already have restic (0.9.4 or later), you can use the self-update command to automatically download and verify the new release.
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Countering threats from North Korea
On February 10, Threat Analysis Group discovered two distinct North Korean government-backed attacker groups exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome, …
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Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner
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Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics
Five months ago we announced some of our vision for Mach & the future of graphics with Zig. Today we've reached Mach v0.1 with over 1,100 commits.
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Gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache | Blog
Chrome's HTTP cache partitioning helps with better security and privacy.
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Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
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A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer (2021)
A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will sketch out a proposal for how to build an versatile, general-purpose OS for a computer that doesn't need or use filesystems or files…
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Algebraic Data Types in Haskell
In this article, we introduce you to the concept of algebraic data types and show how you can build your own data types in Haskell.
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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
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Interoperability without sacrificing privacy: Matrix and the DMA
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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An Introduction to Generics
An introduction to generics in Go.
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A case study in early-stage startup execution
Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.” Now that I’ve been here a while, I thought it would be good to write down…
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How to Build a Minimum Lovable Product
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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Racing against the clock – hitting a tiny kernel race window
TL;DR: How to make a tiny kernel race window really large even on kernels without CONFIG_PREEMPT...
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Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid subscription streaming
22 nd March 2022 – The global recorded music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by growth in paid subscription streaming, according to IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Figures released today in IFPI’s Global Music Report show total revenues for 2021 were US$25.9 billion.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.
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MDN Plus
Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience.
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositorie…