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Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission . Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again.
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal areas to provide an efficient, low-cost…
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Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
How Airbnb ships features faster across web, iOS, and Android using a server-driven UI system named Ghost Platform 👻.
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Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested
Electronics and plastic casing parts of Flipper Zero are manufactured at different factories. Today we will visit the electronics factory and take a look at the automatic PCB testing. There is always a non-zero defect rate when it comes to high-volume production. Some produced PCBs might turn out faulty, some
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FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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IT Without Software
During August 2009, we went on a number of field trips to health centers in remote areas of Thailand and Cambodia. The idea was to conduct a...
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Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
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A distributed spam attack across the public Matrix network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time.
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
Checkout the inner workings of ransoming and patent trolls.
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Globally Distributed Postgres
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets
ZITADEL is the identity infrastructure platform that is built for developers and works for all users and applications.
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Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)
A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anymore! In this post I will start by explaining the value of git blame and […]
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NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
Hackers attempted to use the data in an extortion scheme, joking about altering the source code or sending it to Russian intelligence
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An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout
Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project ZeroIntroduction KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the ...
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MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the…
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ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you'll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally
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A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database
tl;dr: A vandal deleted NewsBlur’s MongoDB database during a migration. No data was stolen or lost.
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no elected...