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New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at Twitter. That’s why we routinely disclose datasets of information operations we can reliably link to state actors.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,707 posts.
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A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
Dive deep into OCR with Tesseract, including Pytesseract integration, training with custom data, limitations, and comparisons with enterprise solutions.
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On Linux's Random Number Generation
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online
Databases exposed by a criminal group leaked more than 300 million Facebook user IDs, names, and phone numbers on the web.
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
A walkthrough of a couple of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) features with security recommendations and advice on how to configure your GCP environments.
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Technology Preview for secure value recovery
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Technologies like p...
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Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The Road to Scala 3
Together with the Scala 3 team at EPFL (aka the Dotty team), led by Martin Odersky, we have decided that, rather than developing Scala 2.14, our efforts should go to Scala 3 instead.
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How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.
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Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020
Self-signed X.509 PKI certificates (SSC) that were generated on devices that run affected Cisco IOS® or Cisco IOS XE software releases expire on 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. New self-signed certificates cannot be created on affected devices after 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. Any service that relies on these self-signed…
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
We explore how databases be used as effective Pub/Subs in Go, demonstrating how SQL's unique features can enhance message-driven applications.
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Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
At this year's Open Source Summit in San Diego, California, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, gave a keynote speech. He defined TARS, a microservice RPC framework that was open sourced by Tencent and donated to the Linux Foundation, as "New ways to scale", a way of mass service. Along with TARS…
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How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
Which countries are net importers and exports of emissions? How much CO2 is ‘offshored’?
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
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Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
In 2015 Cliqz released its own desktop web browser, forked from Firefox. Up to that point, we had distributed our search and privacy products as a single Firefox addon. In this article we cover why we thought it necessary to create our own browser, why we chose Firefox, and why we think it was the right choice.
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Amazon Web Services In Plain English
It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called.
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PIA open-sources and announces audit plans
The VPN industry looks just like the world of religion - everyone has their different beliefs on who to trust. However, even the diamond in the rough lied
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From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
The Logitech MX Master series of mice is a favorite among the Bolt team. They’re consistently rated as top of the pack among graphic designers, engineering design professionals and everyday users who are looking for a solid wireless mouse. While they aren’t ideal for gaming, they’re well-suited for
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A Predictive Database
What is a predictive database? A database that lets you query predictions from structured tabular data with no model training step. Learn how predictive databases work, when to use them, and how they compare to traditional ML.
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Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL
The Eventide Project team is excited to announce Message DB: A fully-featured event store and message store implemented in PostgreSQL for pub/sub, event sourcing, and evented microservices applicat...
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Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
Delegates of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which represents 58,000 member families, voted nearly-unanimously on a voice vote to formally endorse the right of its constituents to repair the products they own, and set strong standards for any legislation or agreement with equipment manufacturers.