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Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
At DEF CON 29, a security researcher exposed the vulnerabilities of farm equipment manufacturers.
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Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Generative Language Model
MT-NLG has 3x the number of parameters compared to the existing largest model of this type and demonstrates unmatched accuracy in a broad set of natural language tasks.
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iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
The iPhone 13 Pro features a new camera capable of focusing closer than ever before—less than an inch away. This opens a whole new dimension for iPhone photographers, but it’s not without surprises. Let’s take a tour of what this lens unlocks, some clever details you might
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Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
NVIDIA data scientists took three of the top spots in a brain tumor segmentation challenge validation phase at the prestigious MICCAI 2021.
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Errors are values
Idioms and patterns for handling errors in Go.
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China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
5 October 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA — China today blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s bid for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the second time after the Foundation’s initial application in 2020. WIPO is the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international…
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review
SerenityOS is a from-scratch desktop operating system that combines a Unix-like core with the look&feel of 1990s productivity software. It's written in modern C++ and goes all the way from kernel to web browser. The project aims to build everything in-house instead of relying on third-party libraries.
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Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?
Secp256k1 and secp256r1 are two commonly used curves. Hyperledger / Fabric developed by IBM is using secp256r1 while Bitcoin is using secp256k1. What is the difference between these two and why did Satoshi decide to use secp256k1 which is considered as a surprising choice at the time?
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ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”
Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5…
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Closing The Portal App
Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now.
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Relational databases aren’t dinosaurs, they’re sharks
Oh relational databases, that tired old relic of another age. Codd and friends were great in their time, but serious software engineers need to move on. People building Web Scale™ software You’ve probably heard a similar sentiment at some point. That relational databases were great, but they are dinosaurs that are…
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Lots to See in Firefox 93
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection.
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Leonardo, the Bipedal Robot, Can Ride a Skateboard and Walk a Slackline
Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of complex movements.
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SSH Tunneling Explained
SSH tunneling transports data streams within an existing SSH session. This post explains different tunneling techniques and features as supported by OpenSSH.
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What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
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ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.
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Multitasking Doesn't Work
When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once, but instead, individual actions in rapid succession.
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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
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Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
Details were disclosed at the company’s 5th Annual Samsung Foundry Forum
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Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h
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U.S. Adults' Estimates of COVID-19 Hospitalization Risk
Americans' estimates of both the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 and the efficacy of the vaccine for the disease vary widely by their political affiliation and vaccination status.
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Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy
Android 12's Material You could risk your privacy. Learn protective measures with our insights.
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Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill
The proposed infrastructure bill will place restrictions on investment options. Act now to protect your self-directed IRA.
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Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record
Americans' trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four points to 36% since last year, making it the second-lowest reading in Gallup's trend.