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Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
See why you should never use pixelation for redacting text and why it is a surefire way to get your data leaked. Learn from security researcher Dan Petro.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
Chrome and Firefox will reach version 100 in a couple of months. Let's work together on fixing User Agent detection issues.
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Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs
Hello all :wave:t6: ! As of May 1st 2023 Netlify Graph has been deprecated. We have received loads of feedback and after much consideration we have decided to discontinue support of this product. We will be focusing our efforts on enabling developers to build composable websites, stores, and apps with greater…
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Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
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Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq
Let's take a look at the pros and cons of Delayed Job and Sidekiq, two major job processing systems for Rails apps.
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Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
10 years ago today, we published 'Why we Created Julia' ...
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Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps
ACM (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets)2022280 points325 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. Apple must therefore pay another 5 million euros.
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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams dynamically in the browser.
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MikroTik authentication revealed
A deep-dive into MikroTik's hand-rolled Elliptic Curve Secure Remote Protocol (EC-SRP) cryptography used in client-server authentication
2050
Time to run or time to walk? Your body knows the answer
If you walk too fast, your body will choose to run. Here's what biomechanics tell about our average walking speed and how you can enhance it.
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The harmful consequences of the robustness principle
The robustness principle, often phrased as "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept", has long guided the design and implementation of Internet protocols. The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over…
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Corrected identification of object about to hit the moon
Note : I keep getting questions that cause me to realize I should explain something else, or that I explained something poorly. Click here for a list of recent changes. Last modified 2015 Mar 05 16:00 UTC. Here's the original story about this object .
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Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) – a leap forward in technology (2020)
The SPE Industrial Partner Network has come together to create a new universal standard in communication via Ethernet, IEC 63171-6.
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FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling
FPGA toolchains are not trivial, but roughly speaking, you can divide the process of “compiling” FPGA-targeted code in a Hardware Description Language
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Mutt 2.2.0
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
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Why federated protocols don't work (2016)
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
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Sustainability with Rust
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
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Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor at Dyson, and colleagues tracked ad viewership using tools that, instead of just monitoring the television, measured actual viewer presence in the room, and focal attention on the screen.
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Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
From love to disillusionment with Adobe XD. Why I had to jump ship, and what went wrong for Adobe’s design tool.
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Marijuana accelerates growth of HPV-related head and neck cancer (2020)
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified how THC from marijuana accelerates cancer growth in patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive head and neck cancer.
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A new programming language for high-performance computers
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed a new programming language specifically for high-performance computing. With the prototype, says PhD student Amanda Liu, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
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Privacy preserving attribution for advertising
Advertising provides critical support for the Web. We’ve been looking to apply privacy preserving advertising technology to the attribution problem, so t
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Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
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Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
Meta is not wanting or “threatening” to leave Europe and any reporting that implies we do is simply not true.