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Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
We have found that you could be leaking your Internet traffic when running Linux under WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration
DeepMind shares its latest updates developing AI in StarCraft II.
Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
Say goodbye to Kafka ZooKeeper dependency! KIP-500 introduces a new way of storing data in Kafka itself, rather than in external systems such as ZooKeeper.
Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam
Today we’re adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in . Whether you’re building an app for Android, iOS or the web, ...
At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet
From Pub-Sub messaging to Foreign Data Wrappers - five extraordinary features that made Postgres our backend of choice for Arcentry
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Fortran : High-performance parallel programming language
Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
To survive in the big bad world of business, you need staying power. We wanted to know which businesses around the world have stood the test of time and were
Microservices
This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015. For a while, it seemed like everyone was crazy for microservices. You couldn’t open up your favorite news aggregator of choice without some company you had never heard of touting how the move t
Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude of options to RDS including extensive console support, three additional database engines ( Oracle, SQL Server, and…
KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support
KeePassXC Password Manager
Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world.
Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
What RISC-V will do is give our customers is an extra option when seeking to minimize power consumption in certain applications where the (many) tradeoffs of not using an Arm-based core are acceptable.
Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.
Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Amazon Has Just Registered to Sell Ocean Freight
Flexport has obtained information that Amazon China has registered with the FMC to operate as an ocean freight forwarder in the United States.
Supercharging Style Transfer
Posted by Vincent Dumoulin*, Jonathon Shlens and Manjunath Kudlur, Google Brain TeamPastiche. A French word, it designates a work of art that imita...
A Rust-Based Unikernel: First Version of a Rust-Based LibOS
A Unikernel for Extreme-Scale Computing
The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
Making a good diff algorithm
Pretty Diff tool can minify, beautify (pretty-print), or diff between minified and beautified code. This tool can even beautify and minify HTML.
Reshaped is now open source
After five years of closed-source, Reshaped is finally open for all – both in React and Figma.
Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Safety leads everything we do at Waymo. This year alone, Waymo has served over 700,000 ride-hailing trips with public riders and no human driver. We couldn’t have hit that milestone without putting safety front and center, and we are working hard to improve the measurement, transparency, and performance of our fleet.
The React Foundation
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…