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This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more
Servo’s unique parallel layout engine just got even better.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,871 posts.
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How Does OpenAI Survive?
Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of
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Don’t let your domain name become a sitting duck
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds.
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Just disconnect the internet
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way, lots of people to blame and not to…
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Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
Here’s a little “fake stats in the wild” gem that I think you and your followers will find at the least somewhat amusing.
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I prefer rST to Markdown
I will never stop dying on this hill
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Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.
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Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
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Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)
Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times.
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`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete
We show that a system that has only GNU's find and mkdir commands is Turing-complete.
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Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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Building static binaries with Go on Linux
One of Go's advantages is being able to produce statically-linked binaries [1] . This doesn't mean that Go always produces such binaries by default, however; in some scenarios it requires extra work to make this happen. Specifics here are OS-dependent; here we focus on Unix systems.
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Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
I think I should blog more about random troubleshooting sessions, if nothing else it will remind me what steps I took when it inevitably happens again!
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How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
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The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)
This is basically a compilation of the lecture notes I wrote when teaching 36-401, Modern Regression, in fall 2015 . I offer it here on the chance that it might be of interest to those learning, or teaching, linear regression. There's no shortage of resources on that, but I have tried to present the subject as though…
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JavaScript garbage collection and closures
GC within a function doesn't work how I expected
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Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS
Yesterday on Twitter the inimitable Morten Just posted a preview of a tool he’s created that wrap ffmpeg to allow movies, such screen recordings but pretty m...
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Why doesn't advice work?
(or at least work better)
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Making Machines Move
Gather round the fire to hear the tale of how we built migration for stateful apps on a global public cloud without building a SAN.
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Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
Was the Internet Created for Nuclear War?
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Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
I became interested in implementing programming languages a few years ago and discovered [Crafting Interpreters](https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Bob Nystrom. At the time, I had experience with Rust and decided to use it to follow the book. Albeit, being a noob, I managed to implement a fully functional bytecode…
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OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011
Silently sends up to 255 bytes of the client's heap to the server . The server must support NPN , and the heap data is encrypted in transit.
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Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper
Recently, GDM released a great paper titled, Scaling Exponents Across Parameterizations and Optimizers, in which they conduct over 10,000 LLM training runs to obtain optimal hyperparameters under different regimes. After reading it (it was great), I wanted to test my understanding of the paper by tallying up all…
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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C Macro Reflection in Zig
Zig’s reflection combined with Zig’s ability to import C header files means Zig can be used for C macro reflection.