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Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly
My journey of improving the performance of our ultra resolution storytelling tool Micrio by upgrading the JavaScript-only client to WebAssembly.
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Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox for a while. It has proven to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues.
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A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)
Abstract : In this post we describe the construction of a small amateur radio telescope operating at
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ReactOS Updates
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial
This PEP is a tutorial for the pattern matching introduced by PEP 634.
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What's an SPF Record?
SPF records are DNS records that help prevent SPAM and forged emails
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
This article highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem.
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Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest
SUMMARY Mountain Dew's Super Bowl LV ad challenged viewers to count the exact number of bottles in the commercial for a $1 million prize, and this post builds an object detection model to assist with that count. The 30-second video was sampled at three frames per second in Roboflow to produce 92 annotated training…
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I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer.
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Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.
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Haiku Activity Report – January 2021
Hello everyone, apparently we made it to 2021! This year we will see the 20th anniversary of Haiku. This report covers hrev54806-hrev54947. Architectures, ports, bootloaders PulkoMandy fixed the build of the openfirmware bootloader for PowerPC. It …
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Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly
Foraging humans find food, reproduce, share parenting, and even organise their social groups in similar ways as surrounding mammal and bird species, depending on where they live in the world, new research has found.
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Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study
Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more prone to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies, according to a recent study led by WSU sociologist Jennifer Schwartz.
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Android emulator abused to introduce malware onto PCs
Attackers have compromised the software distribution system of BigNox, developer of a popular Android emulator for PCs and Macs.
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Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles
Exploring the tradeoffs of building container images at scale
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23andMe to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. to become publicly-traded company
23andMe to Merge with Virgin Group’s VG Acquisition Corp. to Become Publicly-Traded Company Set to Revolutionize Personalized Healthcare and Therapeutic Development through Human Genetics January 15, 2021 Medscape study in collaboration with 23andMe finds Primary Care Physicians are increasingly more comfortable with…
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Homebrew 3.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.0.0. The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.
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Factorio Future Plans
Hello, the 1.1 release is the final release of the vanilla game. It will be maintained, so bugfixes, simple modding interface additions, or minor tweaks can happen, but that's about it.
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The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater
The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and was filled entirely with freshwater at least twice in the last 150,000 years. This surprising finding, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, is the result of long-term research by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the MARUM…
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Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
Docker has contributed Docker Distribution to the CNCF. This move will ensure Docker Distribution has a broad group maintaining what is the foundation for many registries.
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Stepping Down as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation my intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 15th will be my last day, marking my seven-year anniversary with th…
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Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country. As an interim solution to help people in Iran get connected again, we’ve added support in Signal for a simple TLS proxy that is easy to set up, can be used to bypass the network block, ...
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A better way to build ML: Why you should be using Active Learning
Data labeling is often the biggest bottleneck in machine learning. Active learning lets you train machine learning models with much less labeled data. The best AI-driven companies, like Tesla, use active learning.
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Desirable streets: where do people prefer to walk?
Where do people prefer to walk?
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Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business
Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report. We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to…
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The Dunant subsea cable
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.