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Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior
In a new paper, Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton writes that the company took control of the social media industry by misleading consumers and buying up rivals.
Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
ACME API lets our users automate their Public Certificate Lifecycle Management.
School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents
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DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice…
Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
Google Cloud offers our best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system.
Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
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Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Python
This blogpost introduces zipline package in python with its benefits, how to install it, and using it code the moving crossover strategy for financial trade
Pulumi 3.0
Announcing Pulumi 3.0, the next major version of the Pulumi open source project.
Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
We have used the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope to receive signals from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals, which are very faint due to the distance of Voyager 1: almost 25 billion kilometers, more than four times the distance to Pluto.
/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)
<a href="https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes"></a>The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux, Android,and iOS. Unix was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken…
Darktable 4.0
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.0.0. As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz file. The checksums are: $ sha256sum…
Introducing Ghost 2.0
A powerful new editor, multi-language support, custom homepages, dynamic routes, custom structures and much more!
F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the inc...
Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL
The Eventide Project team is excited to announce Message DB: A fully-featured event store and message store implemented in PostgreSQL for pub/sub, event sourcing, and evented microservices applicat...
New React DevTools
We are excited to announce a new release of the React Developer Tools, available today in Chrome, Firefox, and (Chromium) Edge! What’s changed? A lot has changed in version 4! At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support…
Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
Deep dive into the sort performance improvements in PostgreSQL 15, along with charts to visualize what types of queries will be faster. Includes speedups in single column sorts, reduced memory consumption with generation memory context, specialized sort routines for common datatypes, & use of k-way merge.
Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction.
FoundationDB Record Layer
Today, we are excited to announce the open source release of the FoundationDB Record Layer!
How to handle secrets on the command line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.
Plane: Per-user backends for web apps
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF
Update: Added clarification that only the Let’s Encrypt client software is changing its name and host. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and associated services are not changing names or relocating. Over the next few months the Let’s Encrypt client software will transition to a new name, soon to be announced…