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DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Firefox 27 Released
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 27!
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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximise employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
We set out with ambitious plans but after a year of development, we’ve run out of cash and are shutting down Wattage.
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Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
Groups are inherently social, and Signal is a social app. Whether you’re planning a surprise party, discussing last night’s book club meeting, exchanging photos with your family, or organizing something important, group messaging has always been a key feature of Signal. Signal provides private gr...
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Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
We are excited to ship the first version of pgroll, a command line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would empower a huge user community to do more. One of…
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So you want to build your own open source chatbot
A small team within Mozilla’s innovation group recently undertook a hackathon to build a trustworthy internal chatbot prototype.
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Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup
We've been speculating for a long time that hash-based keyword lookup ought to be faster than binary search, but up to now we hadn't found a suitable tool for generating the hash function. Joerg Sonnenberger provided the inspiration, and sample code, to show us that rolling our own generator wasn't a ridiculous idea…
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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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Blender 4.5 LTS
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.
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NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages
Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.
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Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
If search is the game, looks matter
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Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities
Technical details on how we tested Claude Mythos Preview, a model strikingly capable at computer security tasks, and what we found.
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises
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Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret
In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency's surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the...
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Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
Who’s this for Basics How data is stored in disk How indexes speedup access to data Costs associated with indexes Disk Space Write operations Query planner Memory usage Types of Indexes Btree Hash BRIN GIN GiST & SP-GiST Conclusion Who’s this for This text is for developers that have an intuitive knowledge of what…
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We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring
For years, companies have been trying things like unconscious bias training, anonymizing resumes, etc. The numbers have barely moved. Here's a better way.
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As unions decline, inequality rises
To a remarkable extent, inequality, which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s, corresponds to the rise and fall of unionization in the United States. BLOG: Union decline and rising inequality in two charts The passage in 1935 of the National Labor Relations Act, which protected and…
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How to Live Without Google
Minimize Google's invasive tracking with these alternatives for search, email, chat, and more.
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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.