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A month of Flutter: a look back
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics from Mozilla. This is an incredible rate of change! We’d…
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Fuzzing Like It’s 1989
With 2019 a day away, let’s reflect on the past to see how we can improve. Yes, let’s take a long look back 30 years and reflect on the original fuzzing paper, An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities, and its 1995 follow-up, Fuzz Revisited, by Barton P. Miller. In this blog post, […]
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Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)
Something central, very central, is missing in historical accounts of scientific and technological discovery. The discourse and controversies focus on the role of luck as opposed to teleological programs (from telos, "aim"), that is, ones that rely on pre-set direction from formal science. This is a faux-debate: luck…
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Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
The body’s ability to repair DNA damage declines with age, which causes gradual cell demise, overall bodily degeneration, and greater susceptibility to cancer. Experiments in mice suggest a way to thwart DNA damage.
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AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
AdGuard DNS: a privacy-oriented DNS service that blocks trackers and ads anywhere, from your PC and mobile devices to smart TV and IoT.
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Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
Spain is forecast to topple Japan from the top spot in the longest life expectancy league table by 2040, while the US continues to slip down the rankings.
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Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3
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SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
Bounce through the network with SSH tunnels and proxies. Take your remote system administration skills to the next level with our practical SSH examples.
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Krita in 2018 and 2019
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
The Super Nintendo classic started life on the 8-bit NES. That version was considered lost...until now.
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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM* in Heidelberg have succeeded for the first time in directly reprogramming human blood cells into a previously unknown type of neural stem cell. These induced stem cells are similar to those that occur during the early…
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Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her
Katharina Nuss, a mom of three in Winnipeg, Canada, had a recent run-in with the authorities which radicalized her -- if it's radical to work toward a day when parents are allowed to send their kids down the block unsupervised for a minute or two. We spoke by phone. Here's her story: I have three
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The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
We’re more likely to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over, and we justify it by convincing ourselves it’s not as unhealthy as it is, according to new research by marketing professor Kelly Haws.
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The Matrix.org 2018 year in review
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Creating a Non-Trivial Lisp Game in 2018
Jalur masuk yang cepat menghemat waktu pengguna untuk langsung bermain. Hadiah yang melimpah dan simbol khusus yang mudah muncul tersedia secara berkala. Penawaran istimewa terus diperbarui agar pengalaman bermain selalu segar.
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DragonFly BSD 5.4
DragonFly version 5.4 brings a new system compiler in GCC 8, improved NUMA support, a large number of network and virtual machine driver updates, and updates to video support. This release is 64-bit only, as with previous releases.
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Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is found in:
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Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
Grab designs fault-tolerant systems that can withstand failures allowing us to continuously provide our consumers with the many services they expect from us.
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Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)
In this post I dig into planning, and how it is a fundamental part of what makes a game engaging. Planning affects many aspects of what is s...
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An Apology and an Update
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
WHAT THE RESEARCH IS: A new fully convolutional approach to automatic speech recognition and wav2letter++, the fastest state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition system available. The approach …
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Evaluation of five password managers
With an interactive grid to help you pick one!