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Medication errors found in half of surgeries
The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period has found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in every second operation and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations, according to information gathered from 275 operations at…
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What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?
The history of the Witness Protection Program is full of Hollywood-worthy intrigue. It also challenges our assumptions about crime and identity.
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Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer This post updates our previous notification of a misissued certificate for google.com Followin...
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Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
Note: This information has been disclosed to Google appropriately, they have chosen to not fix this behavior.
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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
If you’ve ever been a Homejoy customer this should piss you off. “Fly Maids” has all your data and they seem pretty awful.
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Inside The Fine Art Factories of China
When Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo toiled for four years on his master work. Renoir spent six months painting Luncheon of the Boating Party—the painting featured in the film Amélie. Even Guernica, which Pablo Picasso painted quickly to publicize the…
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VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues
Software Freedom Conservancy is pleased to provide updated information regarding the ongoing GPL enforcement lawsuit for Linux, funded by Conservancy, that Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany. Information about the suit is available on the FAQ page.The lawsuit continues to progress. VMware has…
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Onion names reserved by the IETF
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that sets standards for the Internet, has...
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Firebug and DevTools Integration
You might have already heard about our effort to unify native Firefox Developer tools (DevTools) and Firebug. We’ve been working hard to port all favorite Firebug features into native DevTools, ...
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How to detect lies with a storytelling technique
Physical cues to detect lies have a fairly high failure rate. Find out how to detect lies a lot more accurately using a storytelling technique.
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Rreverrse Debugging
rr is the debugger for Rust (et al.) that is is almost too good to be true.
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Why you might want to choose Ceylon
The Eclipse Ceylon™ project encompasses development of the language itself (the language specification), the compiler frontend (typechecker), the compiler backends for Java and JavaScript
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List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked)
Background: I have worked with lots of companies as security consultant through bug bounties either I asked them if they need my service or they approached. I’m a big fan of Paul’s essa…
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Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Remote and offshore software outsourcing was a perfect business concept ten years ago. Not anymore. Here is why.
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Carina – High-Performance, Instant-On Docker Containers
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CISA passes Senate
CISA passed the Senate today in a 74-21 vote. The bill is fundamentally flawed due to its broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying authorities. The bill now moves to a conference committee despite its inability to address problems that caused recent highly publicized...
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Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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U of California policy extends free access to all articles by UC employees
Today the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this…
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PostgreSQL on the Command Line
Working efficiently with psql
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Making Sense of Dell and EMC and VMware
Dell recently announced an agreement to acquire EMC [NYSE: EMC] — and with it, control of VMware [NYSE: VMW] — in a deal valued at $67 billion at the time of the announcement. While analyses of the deal so far have been devoted to the (more straightforward) implications for the computing, storage, and networking…
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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years
Back in summer I have read a new bookpublished by one of the core Intel architects about the Management Engine (ME).I didn’t quite like what I read there. In...
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Software Is the New Oil
I was with some friends this weekend and one of them was talking about an investment committee meeting he attended and there was a discussion at that meeting about some of the threats out there in the macro investment landscape. One of them was “vanishing liquidity” and the significant change in net cash flows from […]
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Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
This post is meant as a Docker 102 -level post. If you are unaware of what Docker is, or don't know how it compares to virtual machines ...