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Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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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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Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
Posted by Jan Keller, Technical Program Manager, Google VRP A little over 10 years ago , we launched our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VR...
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Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Here are some limitations of Rust and how to work around them.
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The "five whys" productivity technique
If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.
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Why Authorization Is Hard
There's a fundamental tension in authorization. Is it business logic or authorization logic? Should it be in the app, or separate? Let’s talk about what makes a
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Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.
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How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”―Marshall Rosenberg, As a founder, my biggest regrets revolve around not having difficu…
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Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought
The latest public health news delivered right to your inbox.
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How Facebook encodes videos
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — mean…
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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.
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Nim 1.6
Nim version 1.6 is now officially released!
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority confirmed that Grindr did not receive valid consent from users and announces a fine of 100 Mio NOK (€ 9.63 Mio) on Grindr.
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Docker Raises $23M
Palo Alto, Calif., – March 16, 2021 – Docker, Inc.™, a leading provider of collaborative application development platforms for development teams, today
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How to Operate an Airport in Antarctica
Troll Research Station maintains one of the southernmost airports in the world. See how the Norwegian Polar Institute operates an airport in Antarctica.
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Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Is 40 the New 60?
Here's a funny story: I've been using and teaching Python for over 20 years, and designed its built-in set module, but nobody would hire me as a Python programmer when I was laid off by RStudio in February. I was "too senior" for every developer role I applied for, even when the first paragraph of my cover letter said…
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German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
Today, the UK High Court has quashed a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), and ruled that section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act (ISA) 1994 does not permit the issuing of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain forms of computer hacking.
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Open Source Goes to Mars
Celebrating the nearly 12,000 developers who aided Ingenuity's first Martian flight with a profile badge that recognizes their contributions to this historic achievement.
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Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to…
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Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know
Fastmail is the latest email provider to be blocked by Russia.
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The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta
The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the
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Best practices for REST API design (2020)
In this article, we'll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.
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"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services.
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e