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TypeScript 4.0
Today we are thrilled to announce the availability of TypeScript 4.0! This version of the language represents our next generation of TypeScript releases,
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Who to ignore – bullshit filters
By Gabriel and Ernest Oppetit Unforseen shit happens. 9/11, the 2008 crash, Brexit, Trump, COVID-19… you know the story. These events surprised us because our information diets are domi…
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Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
Sepia, Peertube's mascot Back when I first started posting videos, I used Vimeo. Even though YouTube was the dominant video si...
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KeePassXC 2.6.1
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark”
This post is a companion to the DEF CON 28 video available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLe-xW-Ws4c Breaking the Firmware of Samsung’s NFC Chips Recently I have been looking into how to push the capabilities of my old smartphones beyond what you could traditionally do just by rooting it. Smartphones contain…
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Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
Programming, retrogaming, hacking and computer stuff.
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The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief…
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Can't you just right click?
In 2012, Apple added Gatekeeper to Mac OS X (now macOS). When you try to run Mac software downloaded from the internet, Gatekeeper checks whether the software was signed with a valid Developer ID certificate. If not, then Gatekeeper refuses to run the software. Over the years, Gatekeeper has become more strict…
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Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly
Daniel Lehmann, University of Stuttgart; Johannes Kinder, Bundeswehr University Munich; Michael Pradel, University of Stuttgart
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Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement
Today, Airbnb confidentially submitted a draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
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How to contact Google SRE by dropping a shell in Cloud SQL
Note: The vulnerabilities that are discussed in this post were patched quickly and properly by Google. We support responsible disclosure. The research that resulted in this post was done by me and …
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Elastic 7.9
Elastic 7.9 (Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) delivers new capabilities to market. Get started with a new free tier of Workplace Search, part of Elastic Enterprise Security, and ...
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Ice Lake AVX-512 Downclocking
Examining the extent of AVX related downclocking on Intel’s Ice Lake CPU
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A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
The “official” Python Docker image is useful, but to actually understand why, and to use it correctly, it’s worth understanding how exactly it’s constructed.
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Things the most successful people I know struggle with to be happy
“You wouldn’t want to be me.” is the line Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan about his life. Many of us see the successes and the outward experiences people produce and think up. Yet, few of us get to see what it’s like on the inside of that person’s body or day to day life. It […]
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Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
Chrome engineers are experimenting with Rust. For the foreseeable future, C++ is the reigning monarch in our codebase, and any use of Rust will need to fit in with C++ — not the other way around. This seems to present some C++/ Rust interoperability challenges which nobody else has faced.
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Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences
New research from Dr Rachael Bedford as part of the TABLET project recruited 12-month-old infants who had different levels of touchscreen usage.
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Erlang: The New Scalable ETS Ordered_set
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It
The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.
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Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras
“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Software: Python 3 & Firebase realtime databases Changelog of…
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Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
In my day job I work as a consultant. Roughly six months ago my current client had a non-negotiable requirement that consultants are not all...
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Open Problems in Robotics
Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…
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The Consortium for Python Data API Standards
An initiative to develop API standards for n-dimensional arrays and dataframes
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Lost Advanced Civilizations
Did life on Earth start on Earth, or did it start on Mars and move to Earth?
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