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Hacking Digital Calipers
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
Superhuman: Read Statuses
I’m Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. I’d like to talk about what Superhuman does, why we do it, and what we are changing.
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
Backups ensure data continuity, but they're also a surface of risk. See how Fortune 100 vendor Attunity exposed nearly a terabyte of internal backups.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups
On a Sunday morning in 2006, Cecilia Wu was mugged after leaving church. The pain became unbearable. Discouraged with her treatment options, Wu opted to participate in a pilot study at an orthopedics lab for patients with a full-thickness rotator cuff tear. “It was better than surgery,” Wu said.
The case against plant consciousness
Botanist Lincoln Taiz and colleagues argue against the suggestion that plants have neurobiology or consciousness.
It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life
Two Stanford historians discuss how the United States’ Declaration of Independence became one of the pillars of American civic life and other lesser-known historical facts about what happened on July 4, 1776.
How Google Pagespeed works
How Google PageSpeed Insights works: where its field data comes from, how Lighthouse calculates the Performance score, and how to improve your page speed.
Why we're ending support for MySQL
GitLab will be ending support for MySQL starting with our 12.1 release – here's why.
An Open Letter to the Go Team About Try
An Open Letter To The Go Team About Try. “Once a language gets complex enough, programming in it is more like carving out a subset from an infinite sea of …
Exploring alternative funding models for the web
The online advertising ecosystem is broken. The majority of digital advertising revenue is going to a small handful of companies, leaving other publishers with scraps. Meanwhile users are on the ...
Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
Starting at 1342 UTC today we experienced a global outage across our network that resulted in visitors to Cloudflare-proxied domains being shown 502 errors (“Bad Gateway”). The cause of this outage was deployment of a single misconfigured rule within the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)
The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
This blog post shows you how to use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands.
Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Using Pointers in SPARK
In this blog post, I will present one of the most interesting additions to the community 2019 version of SPARK: pointer support. One of the core…
Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
House Bill 2001 will strike down local bans on duplexes for every low-density residential lot in all cities with more than 10,000 residents and...
No Strong Opposition to 144-146 MHz Reallocation Proposal at CEPT Meeting
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes
My big secret ("My work isn't good enough") was finally out. Yet I wasn’t being fired. I was being offered help from someone I respected. I was still worth their time.
NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn
Building a community-owned and -operated internet network for all New Yorkers
Tightening up Privacy in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We're Going
An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow.
Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk
In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. is arguing that repairing its devices could jeopardize the cyber security of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip. Don&…
India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power
As the costs of generating cleaner energy continue to fall, there is growing potential to speed up the transition to a zero-carbon future.
Attempts to Censor AntiPolygraph.org
AntiPolygraph.org has received a rather unpleasant letter from James D’Loughy, a lawyer representing NITV Federal Services, LLC (NITV), which markets a scientifically baseless voice-based lie detector called the “Computer Voice Stress Analyzer,” and its president, self-described “Renaissance Man” “Dr.” Charles Humble…
Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple
June 27, 2019Mr. Craig Federighi Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering One Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA 95014RE: Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign In with AppleDear Mr. Federighi,The OpenID Foundation applauds Apple’s efforts to allow users to login to third-party mobile and…
Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa
Google’s private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.