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PHP 8.1.0
PHP 8.1 is a major update of the PHP language. Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, intersection types, performance improvements and more.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
The AFR for 2020 dropped below 1% down to 0.93%. In 2019, it stood at 1.89%. That’s over a 50% drop year over year.
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iOS 14.5 delivers Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch, new privacy controls, and more
iOS 14.5 brings new features including unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, new Siri voices, privacy controls, and more.
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7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65.
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How to Hack APIs in 2021
Detectify Crowdsource is not your average bug bounty platform. It’s an invite-only community of the best ethical hackers who are passionate about securing modern technologies ...
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Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has recreated a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient to the impacts of drought, wildfire and climate change
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Writing Well-Documented Code – Learn from Examples
Writing Well-Documented Code - Learn from Examples
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SQLite Release 3.37.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Blender and the Rabbids
Julien Blervaque and Yannick Castaing, Ubisoft Film & Television, share the experience of using Blender for Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars.
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Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
Hillebrand Gori makes logistics easy for wine, beer and spirits. Rely on tailored transport, warehousing and supply chain services that keep your beverages safe and your business growing.
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
SQLite strives to be flexible regarding the datatype of the content that it stores. For example, if a table column has a type of "INTEGER", then SQLite tries to convert anything inserted into that column into an integer. So an attempt to insert the string '123' results in an integer 123 being inserted. But if the…
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State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
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Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
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California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
Today, California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 519 to decriminalize certain psychedelics in the interest of public health and safety and to address some harms of the War on Drugs. The bill would decriminalize MDMA, LSD, DMT, psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, and mescaline and…
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Globally Distributed Postgres
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Pharo 9
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
This project hosts security advisories and their accompanying proof-of-concepts related to research conducted at Google which impact non-Google owned code.
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Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
Fears about old things when they were new. Click to read Pessimists Archive Newsletter, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Will Nix Overtake Docker?
Nix and Docker both tackle the works-on-my-machine problem, but in different ways. A practical comparison of their approaches to reproducible environments.
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
A deep dive into Adaptive Projections, a novel way to make interactive maps more accurate without compromises to user experience or rendering quality.
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New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
In the United Kingdom, most people don’t feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. For two-thirds of the population, talking politics sincerely, on the job, is uncomfortable. People who hold certain, commonplace views, stay silent believing that expressing those views will carry penalty not reward. These…
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jQuery 3.6.0
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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