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Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
One of the major improvements to look forward to in Thunderbird "Supernova" is a beautifully redesigned calendar UI. Here's your first look!
New MacBook Air with M2
Apple today announced the completely redesigned MacBook Air with M2, will be available to order beginning Friday, July 8, at 5 a.m. PDT.
The other kind of staff software engineer
In this article, the author explores the differences between line and staff software engineers. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ea...
Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
Self-built electric vehicle sets new best time
Cache your CORS
CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API client, and sending...
Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society.
Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine
Oracle claims to have amassed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue. ICCL's Dr Johnny Ryan is a lead plaintiff in a new U.S. class action to stop its global surveillance machine.
Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org…
Postman Now Supports gRPC
We are excited to announce first-class support for gRPC in Postman. Learn how to get started today.
Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
Deuxfleurs is a non-profit based in France that aims to defend and promote individual freedom and rights on the Internet. In their quest to build a d…
ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
No Refrigerant Left Behind
We have a plan to prevent 2 billion tons CO2e in the next 10 years by collecting and destroying superpotent refrigerants.
Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
American, the world’s largest airline, poised to have the world’s largest supersonic fleet with new Boom Supersonic aircraft
Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]
UPDATE, 10:56PM CT: THE POWER OF THE INTERNET SAVED THE DAY. All of the bags of caffeinated coffees sold out. That’s approximately 24,000 bags of coffee. You all are amazing! We are overwhelmed with gratitude and will update tomorrow. Hopefully we can find these lonely bags of decaf a good home, too. We’ve had a…
Bevy game engine 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't…
How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be…
Unity merges with IronSource
Unity announced today it has entered into an agreement to merge with ironSource, harnessing the company's tools, platform, technology, and talent to form an end-to-end platform that enables creators to more easily create, run & manage, publish, grow and monetize live games and other real-time interactive…
Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st