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Trade ministers are meeting behind closed-doors at the Westin Resort and Spa in Maui this week to finalize the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is the first formal round of talks since the U.S. passed the controversial Fast Track trade legislation in June, which has given U.S....
I. A lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists envision a future of small corporate states competing for migrants and capital by trying to have the best policies. But the Internet is about as clo…
Microsoft has renewed its Privacy Policy and Service Agreement. The new services agreement goes into effect on 1 August 2015, only a couple of days after the launch of the Windows 10 operating system on 29 July. The new “privacy dashboard” is presented to give the users a possibility to control their data related to…
Today I'm releasing two fuzzers: jsfunfuzz , which tests JavaScript engines, and DOMFuzz , which tests layout and DOM APIs.
Over the last week or so, I've spent my spare time working on a new roguelike game, with a focus on extensive and interesting planet generation. A key characteristic of the genre is that the game world is procedurally generated and this one is no exception.
rsync.net offers secure cloud storage on an open standards ZFS and SSH platform for offsite backup and disaster recovery
Fair warning. You’re going to hate this one. I want to stop pushing the web forward for a while. I want a moratorium on new browser features for about a year or so.
Docker’s momentum has been increasing by the week, and from that it’s clearly touching on real problems. However, for many production users today, the pros do not outweigh the cons. Docker has done fantastically well at making containers appeal to developers for development, testing and CI environments—however, it has…
I have worked on optimizing the standard library deflate function, and I am happy to announce revised gzip/zip packages, that on x64 is about 30-50% faster with slightly improved compression. Project: https://github.com/klauspost/compress All packages are drop-in replacements for the standard libraries, so you can use…
We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info). With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver…
An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who...
Over the next few months, we’re going to be making some important changes. Here’s more about what you can expect.
2016 (>30k signatures) open letter for AI and Robotics researchers calling for ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.
Update (August 11th): A patch for this bug has been released by Microsoft. Here’s their update to the advisory: We released an updated version of RyuJIT tod...
Inspired by a blog post to run your own cloud gaming service which uses a VPN and Steam's In-Home Streaming, I thought I could do this, too, but in the browser.
Deeply technical and hands-on AI and tech leader. Built, scaled and sold my own… · Experience: Cubes · Education: Nanzan University · Location: London Area, United Kingdom · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Jamie Brown’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
A lot of developers coming to JavaScript world attracted by React.js are confused with the tooling used to produce modern JavaScript code. Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Mocha, Karma, Grunt... what should I use and which tool is doing what? JavaScript newcomers are often people coming from communities like Ruby and Java…
I recently made a setup at work where I had a Nginx server facing the user, which would forward requests to a service running behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (aka. ELB). That in itself doesn’t sound like a difficult task, you just find the hostname for the ELB and point Nginx at it with a proxy_pass statement like…
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail. Drawing on data from the US, Germany and the UK, Alexandre Afonso looks at how…
This article documents Hacking Team’s third-party acquisition of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities and exploits. The recent compromise of Hacking Team’s email archive offers one of the first public case studies of the market for 0days. Because of its secretive nature, this market has been the source of endless debates…
A lot of people use VPN every day. Somebody use it in always-on mode to circumvent government or corporative internet censorship, while…
