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A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
Ways of dealing with the fractured address space.
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
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GPT-3 Explorer
A power tool for experimenting with GPT-3
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Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of…
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Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
Discover how Surrey researchers show driving with windows down increases exposure to air pollution by around 80%, with implications for health.
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P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com — and now it’s free for everyone. As more collaboration is happening remotely and online — work yes, but increasingly also school and persona…
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Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroThis is a three-part series on exploiting messenger ap...
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Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
Today, we are sharing details about Pysa, an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. Last year, we shared how we built Zoncola…
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On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines
Discussions of coroutines and user-mode threads — like Project Loom's virtual threads or Go's goroutines — frequently turn to the subject of performance. The question I'll try answering here is, how do user-mode threads offer better application performance than OS threads?
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How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
Learn how Google Cloud ramped up to handle high demand for Google Meet in light of COVID-19
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Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Authenticate and authorize your users with Supabase Auth
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Our World in Data: Suicide
Suicide rates can be reduced with greater understanding and support for people at risk.
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Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Journalists in Washington, D.C., have long been accused of living in a “Beltway bubble,” isolated from the broader public, talking too much…
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Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Frances Allen has died
The IBM Research blog is the home for stories told by the researchers, scientists, and engineers inventing What’s Next in science and technology.
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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
Today, Firefox is introducing Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) 2.0, our next step in continuing to provide a safe and private experience for our users. E
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Chat Bubble Blindness
Last month we removed our live chat bubble and replaced it with a link to live chat in our navigation.
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Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers
Browsers are changing the default value of the SameSite attribute for cookies from None to Lax. This will greatly improve security for users. However, some web sites may depend (even ...
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
I last wrote in April about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
From August 15th, GitLab Support will no longer be manually removing MFA from free accounts.
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Broccoli: Syncing Faster by Syncing Less
Dropbox syncs petabytes of data every day across millions of desktop clients. It is vital that we constantly improve the sync experience for our users, to increase our users’ productivity in their everyday lives. We also constantly strive to better leverage our infrastructure, increasing Dropbox’s operational…
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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved
In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved over time.
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27-inch iMac gets a major update
Apple today announced a major update to its 27-inch iMac that makes it the most powerful and capable iMac ever, along with improvements to the display, camera, speakers, and mics.
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SIMD Everywhere: 0.5.0
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first release of SIMD Everywhere (SIMDe), version 0.5.0, representing more than three years of work by over a dozen developers.