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Racket v5.3.2
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Core Libraries:: The new `math` library provides functions and data structures for working with numbers and collections of numbers. Functions include non-ele...
Vagrant 1.4
Vagrant 1.4 has been released! This is a major new release of Vagrant with an incredible amount of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Vagrant 1.4 can be downloaded on our new downloads page. First, I have to thank the new core committers of Vagrant for building many of the incredible features and improvements…
Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials
Cross-disciplinary team from Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings novel therapeutic cancer vaccine to human clinical trials
EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents
Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was...
Everything about Java 8
A comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8.
Debugging Python Like a Boss
Details the process of identifying and resolving a challenging Python bug.
Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying
In the past two weeks Congress has introduced a slew of bills responding to the Guardian's publication of a top secret court order using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to demand that Verizon Business Network Services give the National Security Agency (NSA) a record of every customer's call history...
How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon
Throughout the planning phases of PyCon 2013, for everything we did, we did it bigger than last year. Attendance? We raised the cap to 250...
How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement
Etienne Laurin ( @atnnn ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this one-minute video:
Diving into AngularJS
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure
We recently learned that a component of Android responsible for generating secure random numbers contains critical weaknesses , that render all Android wallets generated to date vulnerable to theft. Because the problem lies with Android itself, this problem will affect you if you have a wallet generated by any Android…
Product Strategy Means Saying No
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
Farewell to Aaron Swartz
Yesterday Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life. Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and...