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It Can Be Done (2003)
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Swift Static Linux SDK
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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Matrix 2.0 Is Here
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.
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End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
We never like removing functionality from our apps. We especially don’t like doing it when it’s due to circumstances beyond our control. But, sometimes — rarely? — it can happen, and so, please take note:
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
NotebookLM is piloting a way for teams to collaborate, and introducing a new way to customize Audio Overviews.
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Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
Canon developed its own technology for forming large, high-purity artificial fluorite crystals using fluorite ore as a raw material.
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Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
Update: We are diving deep into the Google API leak and what it means for marketers in our next episode of SparkToro Office Hours on June 27. Join Michael
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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
Why cookie banners frustrate users, when EU device-access consent is required, and which narrow exemptions may apply to necessary and audience-measurement cookies.
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FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control
A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.
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Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb
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pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on 9 July (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST).
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Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threa...
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ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms
Our work shows that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on DDR4 devices on AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite deployed TRR mitigations. This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems , which greatly increases the attack surface, considering today’s AMD market share…
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Darktable 5.0.0
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release page, download our tar.xz file instead. If you’re just…
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United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
The Federation of American Scientists applauds the United States for declassifying the number of nuclear warheads in its military stockpile and the number of retired and dismantled warheads.
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Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
This week, we'll dive into how we migrated Uber’s business-critical ledger data to LedgerStore. We'll detail how we moved more than a trillion entries (making up a few petabytes of data) transparently and without causing disruption, and we'll discuss what we learned during the migration.
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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
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ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack to bring Google AI, innovations, and features faster to users.Over the last 13 years, we’ve evolve…
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Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
Sometimes, making particular security design decisions can have unexpected consequences. For security-critical software, such as password managers, this can easily lead to catastrophic failure: In this blog post, we show how Bitwarden’s Windows Hello …