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New case studies about Google’s use of Go
Go turned out to have a much broader reach than expected. Its growth in the industry has been phenomenal, and it has powered many Google projects.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,706 posts.
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SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA
Comparing SSH keys: RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and Ed25519 explained, with a straight algorithm recommendation and the move from keys to certificates. Read on.
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An Archive of a Different Type
It was supposed to be magazines.Elaine Wooton contacted me as many people do - in the middle of a shutdown and discard project, asking if the Internet Archive might want some of what is destined for deep storage or the trash compactor. In this case, she said, there might be some old journals and magazines
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Portland passes low-density zoning reform
The reform sets a new standard: up to four homes on almost any lot, or up to six homes for price-regulated projects.
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Hands-on WebAssembly
Learn the basics of WebAssembly through code examples and try different ways to compile C and Rust programs for the browser with the help of Docker image from Evil Martians.
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The Rapier Physics Engine
In our announcement last week, we briefly mentioned this new physics engine we have been working on during the past 5 months.
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Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence
It's not so much the volume of interactions Black Americans have with the police that troubles them or differentiates them from other racial groups, but rather the quality of those interactions.
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WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web
Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles. This standard allows websites to “bundle” resources together, and will make it impossible for browsers to reason about sub-resources by URL. While we appreciate the problems the WebBundles and related proposals aim to solve, we believe there are other, better ways…
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
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Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization
From the very beginning , we built Chrome to be the fastest browser possible. The faster Chrome is, the faster you find the information you ...
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Boston Dynamics' Handle Robot Recreated with Raspberry Pi
Maker Harry was inspired by Handle, Boston Dynamics' research robot, yo build his own mini version named MABEL.
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What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
It’s been an unusual internship season.
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Firefox 80
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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SourMint Malicious SDK
The Snyk security research team has made two significant disclosures surrounding the Mintegral SDK. Learn about these SourMint vulnerabilities.
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Docker to rate limit image pulls
Docker announces significant upgrades to its subscription plans, delivering more value, flexibility, and tools for customers of all sizes.
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Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet
To offer a seamless developer experience, we wanted to create a specialized programming language, called Motoko, that is designed to directly support the programming model of the Internet Computer, making it easier to efficiently build applications and take advantage of some of the more unusual features of this…
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Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
The default filesystem will be BTRFS for Fedora 33 and onwards. Read more here about what that means for the Fedora community.
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Kali Linux 2020.3
Its that time of year again, time for another Kali Linux release! Quarter #3 - Kali Linux 2020.3. This release has various impressive updates, all of which are ready for immediate download or updating. A quick overview of what’s new since the last release in May 2020: New Shell - Starting the process to switch from…
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Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users
HBO Max is incredible. Not because it is good, but because of how many problems with the media landscape it epitomizes. If you ever had trouble seeing where monopoly, net neutrality, and technology intertwine, well then thanks, I guess, to AT...
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to…
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A step towards new nitrogen products
A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products — from dyes to pharmaceuticals — out of thin air.
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FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
A Akamai é a empresa de cibersegurança e computação em nuvem que potencializa e protege negócios online.
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Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima provide answers about the risks of nuclear
The public is always asking of nuclear, ‘what if it all goes wrong?’ Data from Chernobyl and Fukushima have now provided the answer.
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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
A global league table of mobile data costs. The average cost of one gigabyte (1GB) compared from over 5,600 mobile data plans in 237 countries.