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NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
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A New Era at the Tor Project
Andrew Lewman, our current Executive Director, is leaving The Tor Project to take a position at...
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CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner
We’re excited to announce that CloudFlare has just been named a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. So what does this mean?
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HFT in my backyard – VI
When you think about it, it really is one tangled, small cottage industry. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody knows what everybody is doing, and nobody talks. One of my informants. This is the f…
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Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) invalidated key claims in the so-called “podcasting patent” today after a petition for review from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—a decision that significantly curtails the ability of a patent troll to threaten podcasters big...
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Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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On software popularity
Donald Knuth once said: If I find too many people adopting a certain idea I’d probably think it’s wrong .
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NYC Pension Earns $40M Over 10 Years, Pays Fund Managers $2B
“We asked a simple question: Are we getting value for the fees we’re paying to Wall Street?” Mr. Stringer said. “The answer, based on this 10-year analysis, is no.” The party is over. At great political risk to his own ambitions (given the local campaign-funding base), New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer took a…
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The Apple Watch
After one week wearing an Apple Watch, my big picture thoughts and observations. It all hinges on the Taptic Engine and digital touch communication.
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Announcing Tectonic: Commercial Kubernetes Platform
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
The HN team members are some of the most thoughtful people about online communities I’ve ever met. So I’m always excited when they have a new idea to try. This idea is simple. We’re updating the guidelines to add: “Avoid gratuitous negativity.” Critical thinking is good; shallow cynicism, on the other hand, adds…
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Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle...
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Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards
A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called...
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Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations
Starting today, Flickr is happy to support Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0) works on our site.
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$149 Chromebooks
Whether you’re looking for a smaller Chrome device that packs a big punch or a laptop that can do back bends, there’s a Chromebook for you ... and for everyone else, too.
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