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The State of Vacuum in Postgres
In a recent blog post , I talked about why every system that implements MVCC needs some scheme for removing old row versions, and how VACUUM...
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Products Over Projects
Projects are a popular way of organizing software efforts, but long-running product teams are often superior
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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
Eben gives you a crash course in how modern processors work to explain why Raspberry Pi is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.
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Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ
Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the
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Chromium Security: Site Isolation
Site Isolation is a security feature in Chrome that offers additional protection against some types of security bugs. It uses Chrome's sandbox to make it harder for untrustworthy websites to access or steal information from your accounts on other websites.
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Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc in 2017
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2017. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue
Posted by Matt Linton, Senior Security Engineer and Pat Parseghian, Technical Program Manager Yesterday, Google’s Project Zero team posted...
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Algorithm efficiency comes from problem information
This is a high level post about algorithms (especially mathematical, scientific, and data analysis algorithms) which I hope can help people who are not researchers or numerical software developers better understand how to choose and evaluate algorithms. When scientists and programmers think about efficiency of…
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Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time
What was the most productive day of 2017? How often do we get distracted by emails or IM? By analyzing millions of hours of anonymized data, we found out.
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Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system
We've been archiving a bunch of old Xerox Alto disk packs from the 1970s. A few of them turned out to be password-protected, so I needed ...
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XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline.…
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Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Docker for data scientists: Introduction and use cases
Data scientists looking to learn Docker can get a brief intro and a look at how to improve your workflow
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An explorable explanation of relativistic spacetime
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GitHub acquires AppCanary
aToday, we’re excited to announce that we’re going to be able to build tools that impact almost every software developer on the planet — we’re joining GitHub.
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Introducing Preemptible GPUs
In May 2015, Google Cloud introduced Preemptible VM instances to dramatically change how you think about (and pay for) computational resources for high-throughput batch computing, machine learning, scientific and technical workloads. Then last year, we introduced lower pricing for Local SSDs attached to Preemptible…
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Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the Universe. The group came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times as many galaxies in the observable Universe as previously thought. The results…
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Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism
Arm is committed to upholding the highest standards of security across its products and the wider Arm ecosystem. To support its partners and the broader community, Arm publishes three types of security-related documentation, Security Bulletins, Security Updates, and Security Articles.