1981
New
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1982
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of hardware, and faster scaling than traditional deployment methods. The economics and scale of serverless applications…
1983
New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
N2D VMs are the first AMD-based instances on Google Cloud.
1984
JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
The 86th JPEG meeting was held in Sydney, Australia. Among the different activities that took place, the JPEG Committee issued a Call for Evidence on learning-based image coding solutions. In addition, a First Call for Evidence on Point Cloud Coding was issued in the framework of JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding…
1985
1986
Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
Search through thousands of startup jobs, across any location or remote, hiring for software engineers, product managers, designers, marketing, sales, and more.
1987
1988
1989
Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
Ray Tracing Essentials is a seven-part video series hosted by the editor of Ray Tracing Gems, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines.
1990
Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
All-in-one incident management software for modern teams. FireHydrant helps you plan, respond, and resolve faster with smart alerting, on-call scheduling, AI-powered workflows, and post-incident retros.
1991
1992
Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
How Neural Networks can be used in graph data
1993
How to Take Smart Notes
I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking. They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside
1994
Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
The world of work has entered a period of unprecedented change. In the era of AI and automation, workers have to stay flexible. In Sweden, that flexibility has been commonplace for 20 years. What could the rest of the world learn from it?
1995
DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
1996
NetBSD 9.0
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.0, the seventeenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.
1997
Blender 2.82
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
1998
More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights
The Green Deal for Europe should, among other elements, reduce aviation (which is harmful to the climate) and promote alternatives. The activist network Back-on-Track has pointed out five areas of priority, where improvements are needed to get cross-border long-distance trains in shape to provide alternatives to…
1999
Printing tiny, high-precision objects
Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, including 3D bioprinting.
2000
Flowcharts of programming language constructs
This article contains the flow-charts of many common programming language constructs that involve distinct combinations of gotos. The goto (or jump) is a basic building block of control flow, therefore most control flow constructs can be modelled using it.
2001
Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT
It's 2020 and many of you have been wanting a roadmap for the next year. We've got several major updates to shed the light on Corona's future and give you more perspective on your business goals connected to our product. First, let us separate the business entity Corona Labs from the product Corona. On May 1, 2020…
2002
2003
Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
The v0.9 release of the Windows Terminal has arrived! This is the last version of the Terminal that will include new features before the v1 release. You
2004
Sealed Rust Update
Part 2 - The Plan
2005
Open Source Security Tools
Explore open source cloud security tools that help teams improve visibility, automate detections, and strengthen modern cloud-native security operations workflows.
2006
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
2007
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without leaving a permanent mark. Microkernels; EPIC architectures like IA-64; object request brokers; and 1990s’-style neural nets are gone, and will not return. Sorry for the deep throwbacks; only time proves which…
2008
ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
2009
2010
Mitigations are attack surface, too
Posted by Jann Horn, Project ZeroIntroductionThis blog post discusses a bug leading to memory cor...