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exFAT in the Linux kernel
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,948 posts.
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How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers.
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If you must run Windows 10
Barring divine intervention, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 ( formerly LTSB ) may be the least bad option:
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Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
Get a closer look at how we investigated errors originating from scheduled jobs, and how we stumbled upon "the tyranny of the clock."
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Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector
Aleksey Shipilёv, JVM/Performance Geek, Shout out at Twitter: @shipilev Questions, comments, suggestions: aleksey@shipilev.net
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Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
After languishing through the CPU dark-ages (read: Intel trying real hard to keep people on 4 cores so they could charge an arm and a leg for more), the last two years has seen a vertible tsunami of advances in CPU technologies. AMD's introduction of an 8-core CPU (the 1700X) began the rat-race and with both AMD and…
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The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroCVE-2019-8646 is a somewhat unusual vulnerability I re...
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
Explore how our customers use TiDB to handle their mission-critical workloads.
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A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
A vision of an OS that recognizes that any user activity and most of the system activities are nothing but queries, which ought to be treated uniformly and implemented efficiently once and for all; database as a file system; A paper submitted to MacHack'95
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Where do interrupts happen?
Trying to determine exactly where asynchronous interrupts are delivered on Intel CPUs.
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The largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
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Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
In a post a few months back I said it’s a popular myth that const is helpful for enabling compiler optimisations in C and C++ . I figured I should explain that one, especially because I used to believe it was obviously true, myself. I’ll start off with some theory and artificial examples, then I’ll do some experiments…
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How Rust optimizes async/await
The issue to stabilize an initial version of async/await in Rust has left final comment period. The feature looks slated to stabilize in an upcoming release, most likely 1.39. This represents the culmination of an enormous amount of work by people all over the Rust community. But it’s also only the beginning of…
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Traits of Serverless Architecture
Whenever new technologies emerge, the first priority for a technologist is to understand the implication of adopting it. Serverless architecture is a case in point.
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Performance Matters
Last year I got certified as an EMT. As part of the training I shadowed an ambulance for a day and assisted with each run. For each patient we treated, we had to fill out a patient care report. A patient care report. (source) EMTs are just one part in a long chain. If they transport a patient to a hospital, the…
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a signal to a command controller over a serial interface (yes…
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Research Over-Engineer.“Sometimes, hacking is just someon...
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Xfce 4.14
Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.
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What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroWhile there have been several rumours and reports of f...
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Technical Vision for Qt 6
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day
Английская версия <a href="https://habr.com/ru/company/pm/blog/462479/">статьи</a>, опубликованной в корпоративном блоге на Хабрахабре.
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10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better
A week ago, on 29 July, we at Trustworthy Systems celebrated seL4 Freedom Day, the 5th anniversary of the open-sourcing of seL4. Furthermore it was seL4’s 10th birthday – the annive…