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A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance
Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users' computers, to read their personal emails, listen in on private audio calls, record...
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Going under the hood of Inbox
Posted by Garrick Toubassi, Engineering Director Editor’s note: Be forewarned that the following post has much more technical mumbo-jumbo ...
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Your developers aren’t slow
“Why didn’t we ship last week?” As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our team for missing deadlines. But are slow developers really the reason you’re not shipping on time? At Sprintly, we have a lot of data on developer cycle time. We track how long it takes them to complete different types of …
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Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years
New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of…
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Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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New Search Strategy for Firefox: Promoting Choice & Innovation
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
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New Search Strategy for Firefox
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
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Light Table 0.7.0
Light Table 0.7.0 just went out, and in addition to being a fairly major update, we’ve got some fairly major news to accompany it. Some people expressed concern after Chris’s blog post about Eve that Light Table was being abandoned or forgotten, but hopefully some of the announcements today can assuage those concerns…
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A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code
I was just a guy in a suit in an office with a vague startup idea. Then I decided to learn to code. I overheard some guy at a happy hour bragging about how easily he was able to automate his office workflows by using a language called Ruby. I
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Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
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Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. For the past three years, we’ve been developing a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems, designed to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging possible. Today we’re excited ...
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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.Although...
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Building a natural description of images
Posted by Google Research Scientists Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, and Dumitru Erhan“Two pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven”...
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China Just Blocked Thousands of Websites
自2011年以来用技术对抗审查。我们使用AI监控审查并在全球范围内扩大言论自由。
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Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
What is an algorithm ? It’s a sequence of steps that you follow to solve a problem. In everyday life, you might have an algorithm for hangin...
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce it has received a $1,000,000 donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp. This ma...
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The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
Update, Nov 18: The USA Freedom Act does not renew the entirety of the Patriot Act, which consisted of over 100 sections changing numerous electronic surveillance laws. The USA Freedom Act does extend three provisions of the Patriot Act: the "lone wolf" provision, the "roving wire tap" provision,...
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How I Start: Haskell
My name is Chris. I teach Haskell to people that are new to programming and as well as long-time coders. Haskell is a general purpose programming language that is most useful to mere mortals.