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The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS
The ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee recently published SAC132: The Domain Name System Runs on Free and Open-Source Software.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,671 posts.
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Developers are choosing older AI models
At Augment Code, we run multiple frontier models side by side in production. This gives us a unique vantage point into how different models behave in real…
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
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Tailscale Peer Relays
Tailscale Peer Relays provide predictable, performant access, entirely within your own tailnet.
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Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed.
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Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles
Fluid Storage reimagines block storage like EBS with zero-copy forks, true elasticity, and sync replication. Built for the age of agents.
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Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Why you should just use Postgres instead of Kafka for small-scale message queuing and pub-sub patterns. Benchmarks and practical tests included.
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AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
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Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out a new profile management featur
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
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Tor Browser 15.0
Tor Browser 15.0 is now available, featuring an update to Firefox ESR 140, improvements to tab management and the address bar on desktop, and screen lock for Android.
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Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
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HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secure Connections”. This means Ch…
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What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
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Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
Swiss cheese gets holes from carbon dioxide bubbles during the cheese-making process. Learn more about what causes the holes in Swiss cheese at U.S. Dairy.
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How to build a 747 – A WorldFlight Story
How far would you go for realism? The world of flight simulation has come a long way over the past […]
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Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX
ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX arrives in October! Experience 8K HDR with mini LED, 4032-zone dimming, 1200 nits brightness, built-in colorimeter & Thunderbolt 4. Perfect for creators. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for the latest tech updates!
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Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
Can LLMs control robots? We answer this by testing how good models are at passing the butter – or more generally, do delivery tasks in a household setting. State of the art models struggle, with the best model scoring 40% at Butter-Bench, compared to 95% for humans.
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Ubiquiti SFP Wizard
Celebrate SFP Liberation Day with Ubiquiti’s new SFP Wizard, the $49 portable tool that tests and programs any SFP or QSFP module in seconds. Enjoy up to 1000% off Ubiquiti SFPs and unlock true universal compatibility across every switch and network.
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The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
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Tailscale Services
Tailscale Services is a new way to define available resources on your network and expand the granularity of your access controls to resources that may not have Tailscale installed on them.
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Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI
Clearview AI is known for scraping billions of photos of people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors
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Iroh-blobs
Learn about the new features in the new blobs API
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Creating an all-weather driver
Life doesn't freeze when winter comes—if anything, that's when riders need reliable transportation most, when being exposed to the elements becomes less appealing. Today, the Waymo Driver successfully navigates rain, fog, sandstorms, and freezing temperatures. As we expand to more cities across the U.S. and globally…
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Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
A word to the wise: Do not set any cron jobs for 2:00 am or 3:00 am on Sunday morning! Or to be safe, on other mornings besides Sunday as well, since jobs originally set to run on some particular day may eventually be changed to run on another day, or every day.
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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive…
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