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YC Fall Hackathon 2019
This November we’re hosting a hackathon at YC. You can find out more about the event and apply here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/236]. Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward. The top team will get a YC interview and the top three teams…
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Victory! Ruling in hiQ v. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data
In a long-awaited decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). This is an important clarification of the CFAA’s scope, which should provide...
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AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project
We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all using Rust. Rust…
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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive
Another few thousand DOS Games are playable at the Internet Archive! Since our initial announcement in 2015, we've added occasional new games here and there to the collection, but this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago…
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China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
Chinese distributors can help foreign companies reach customers without setting up a business in China. The wrong agreement can leave a supplier locked into years of poor sales, trademark disputes, or regulatory problems. Here are ten issues we address before a client signs.
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Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
Gradient Community Notebooks provide free GPUs with pre-configured environments for machine learning and deep learning projects.
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Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
MIT engineers have analyzed a bridge design proposed by Leonardo da Vinci, and found that it would indeed have stood solidly, had it ever been built.
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Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production
Reformers of higher ed institutions should seek deeper knowledge about the origins of the concepts and methods that currently dominate.
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
We still have a couple of weeks until the holiday season, but here’s an early gift for you: I’m excited to announce our brand new Original Prusa MINI, a smart and compact 3D printing workhorse with all the bells and whistles...
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ScummVM 2.1.0
"Animal sales was a profitable and prestigious business, since most real animals had died out after the Terran War; there were plenty of electric ones, though—" Oh, ahem, didn’t notice you there. ScummVM Team is thrilled to announce the release …
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Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
What it is: Hydra is a lightweight framework that simplifies the development of Python applications, especially complex ones, by introducing the ability to compose and override configurations. Hydr…
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails
Part of Shopify’s success with Ruby on Rails is an emphasis on writing fast code. But, how do you really write fast code? Let’s talk about a few ways to start writing faster code in Active Record, Rails, and Ruby.
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
An update on the Hearthstone Grandmasters APAC competitive ruling.
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California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition
The state of California just made it clear: Face recognition surveillance isn’t inevitable. We can — and should — protect our communities from this dystopian technology.
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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms in the southern cities of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay, as the ...
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Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
We recently designed a new system to manage secret information safely – from the keys that we use to sign your Mastercard transactions, to credentials for external services.
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Love Letter to Clojure
How learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2019
The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 was awarded to Abiy Ahmed Ali "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea"
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Qt for Android better than ever before
As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn't get lazy and we've added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14.
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Iraq has introduced a nighttime internet curfew, consistent with reports from IT industry workers in recent days. Confirmed: #Iraq has partly ...
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
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VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK
Wind River announces Wind River Professional Services has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI® Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration.