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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing"
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DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion
Securitum is a pure pentesting company specialising in the security of IT systems. We have experience in performing security audits (including penetration tests) - mainly for financial/e-commerce/industrial sectors. We have performed penetration tests and cyber security services for leading European banks (see…
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State of Independent SaaS
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.
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Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities
The Midwest tech startup scene is growing. Jobs data show tons of Midwest tech companies are hiring, making the region worth looking into for tech workers.
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Elixir 1.11
Elixir v1.11 is out with improvements to the compiler and tighter integration with Erlang/OTP.
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Why I am building permapeople.org
Four years ago my grandfather gave me two potatoes. I had no idea what to do, so I put them in bought soil ...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our…
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Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the “Amazon Chernobyl”
At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we'd like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It's the story of how "big oil" is now using Harvey…
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How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
Canny recently hit a major revenue milestone: one million dollars in annual recurring revenue. Here's how we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup from the ground up.
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Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization
Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this…
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Covid-19 contact tracing study finds children key to spread
Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected.
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What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with
Kakoune is a (fairly) young modal code editor that has matured for as long and as well as a good red wine. It places multiple-selections, operability and interactivity at the heart of its distinctive characteristics. It provides users with an efficient and comfortable text editing experience — but that’s not what this…
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Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells
Industry guarantees cover only 1% of estimated costs. NEW YORK, October 1 – By failing to require that oil and gas companies provide sufficient financial assurance when drilling new wells, U.S....
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Face retouching settings should be off by default
To provide more control and transparency for selfie filters, we created a guide for respecting personal choices around face retouching.
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Xen on Raspberry Pi 4
The Xen Project is excited to share that the Xen Hypervisor now runs on Raspberry Pi. This is an exciting step for both hobbyists and industries. Read more to learn about how Xen now runs on RPi and how to get started. Written by Stefano Stabellini and Roman Shaposhnik, originally
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French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs
At least five bar owners in Grenoble, France have been arrested for providing WiFi at their businesses without keeping logs. The bar owners were arrested
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Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment
The prevalence of dementia in places where more than one language is spoken is 50% lower than in regions where the population uses only one languageA study has shown that Alzheimer's patients with a higher degree of bilingualism receive a later diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment
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Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene
Researchers harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries.
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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
HelloSign is a Dropbox company that provides a Web-based eSignature solution: If you have a document you want someone to sign, you upload the document file, then show you an editor in which you place all the fields to build the form the recipient will fill out—signatures, dates, initials, etc. You send this prepared…
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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2020141 points172 commentsTech Industry & Business details
Although Wall Street would be ferociously opposed to policies that limit the unfettered flow of capital around the world, the right polices could sharply reduce the economic disruption wreaked on workers, producers, farmers, and the middle class.
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Pelican static site generator 4.5
Pelican static site generator
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Swift Atomics
I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such as concurrent data structures) directly in Swift.
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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant…
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