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Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows
Introduction Back in 2014, while at Project Zero, I exploited a buffer overflow of a single NUL byte in glibc . Tavis Ormandy had found th...
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Nim Programming Language v0.17.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.17.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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Kotlin Is Better
I've also ended up using Emacs along side Jetbrains IDEs (PyCharm & Webstorm). It is an odd combo but it works great. Emacs for mind-control level text editing, and the IDE works great for mouse-oriented poking around and small edits.
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Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst for Water Splitting
Discovery Could Remove Hurdle to Producing Hydrogen from Water
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Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud
Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlowResearchers require enormous computational resources to train the machine learning (ML) models t...
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A Case of Stolen Source Code
Last week, for about three days, the macOS video transcoding app HandBrake was compromised . One of the two download servers for HandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the app, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote control of your computer.
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JSON Feed
We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects…
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Oculus Research to Present Focal Surface Display Discovery at SIGGRAPH
Oculus Research will present a paper on focal surface displays at the annual SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles July 30 – August 3. This groundbreaking work demonstrates the potential ability to improve image clarity and depth of focus in VR for a better, more natural visual experience.
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Book Review: The Hungry Brain
[Content note: food, dieting, obesity] I. The Hungry Brain gives off a bit of a Malcolm Gladwell vibe, with its cutesy name and pop-neuroscience style. But don’t be fooled. Stephan Guyenet is…
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Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
Write-up of the polygon renderer used for the Mega Drive demo “Overdrive 2”.
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Working at Netflix 2017
Working at Netflix, 2017: a personal update from a performance engineer about working at the company.
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Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle
I. Vox’s David Roberts writes about Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology. It’s got a long and complicated argument which I can’t really do justice to here, but the the…
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Tor Browser 7.0a4 is released
Tor Browser 7.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our...
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Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Robots that learn
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Cloud Spanner is now production-ready
Google Cloud migration partners offer their thoughts on database migrations to Cloud Spanner.
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Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
UserZoom empowers your team with sophisticated UX insights to create digital experiences that delight customers and drive business growth.
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Ardour 5.9 released
Ardour 5.9 is now available, representing several months of development that spans some new features and many improvements and fixes. Among other things, some significant optimizations were made to redraw performance on OS X/macOS that may be apparent if you are using Ardour on that platform. There were further…
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“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
If you read the news , you may think the MP3 file format was recently officially “killed” somehow, and any remaining MP3 holdouts should all move to AAC now. These are all simple rewrites of Fraunhofer IIS’ announcement that they’re terminating the MP3 patent-licensing program.
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Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security
A thorough understanding of the internet’s physical makeup has only recently emerged, thanks to painstaking work by UW-Madison researchers and their collaborators.
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