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“The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node”
What's up with Servo for the weeks of 12 Mar- 2 April 2015
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block All HTTP Requests" in Chrome. If you already use...
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Make: Theory and Practice
make is a widely used and valuable development tool. It's a "build" tool: it builds programs and documentation according to a "recipe". It could really be used for anything where someone edits some files, and then runs a series of processing steps to generate some other form from the edited files. For the most part…
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Truecrypt report
A few weeks back I wrote an update on the Truecrypt audit promising that we’d have some concrete results to show you soon. Thanks to some hard work by the NCC Crypto Services group, soon is n…
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I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
Interesting technical tidbits about the NES…
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Google pulling China CNNIC CA from its products
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
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Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
For the past week, the website "GitHub" has been under attack by China. In this post, I pin-point where the attack is coming from by doing a...
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Django 1.8 released
Posted by Tim Graham on April 1, 2015
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Practical Makefiles, by example
The purpose of this document is to explain how to write practical makefiles for your everyday hacks and projects. I want to illustrate, how easy it is to use make for building your programs, and doing so, dispel the notion that resorting to big clunky graphical IDEs, or makefile generators such as autotools or cmake…
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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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The poor, misunderstood innerText
Few things are as misunderstood and misused on the web as innerText property. That quirky, non-standard way of element's text retrieval, [introduced by Inter...
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How I could delete any video on YouTube
About Vulnerability Research Grants and a little story how I could delete any video on YouTube.
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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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Implement a programming language from scratch
Implementing a programming language is an experience no programmer should go without; the process fosters a deep understanding of computation, and it's fun!
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Firefox 37 Release Notes
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.coms history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These incl[...]
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Farewell From Shari Steele
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF's President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992. As I wrap up things here, I've been thinking a lot about where we've been...