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The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014)
From 1995 to 2001, it really was impossible to win a grand prize from McDonalds Monopoly promotion. Unless you knew "Uncle Jerry."
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,531 posts.
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Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we unveiled Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. At that time, we also announced plans to ship a ...
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Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily
WARNING STARTS As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use...
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Fedora 23 released
It’s (approximately) Halloween, so you know what that means — new Fedora! The Fedora 23 release is here, and it’s better than ever before. We’re pleased to bring you the latest incarnations of the three main Fedora editions — Fedora Workstation, Fedora Cloud, and Fedora Server, each built with love by the Fedora…
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CPAN is 20
Perl hackers have now, as of today the 16th August 2015, been uploading Perl modules onto CPAN via PAUSE for 20 years. Andreas König, who did that first upload, is still releasing to CPAN, and as I write this his most recent upload is the same module that was first released to CPAN.
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Firefox 39.0 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Public Beta: December 3, 2015
Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a requirement to sign up and wait for an invitation. Our Limited Beta started on September 12, 2015. We’ve issued over 11,000…
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Gimp 2.9.2 Released
We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It is another major milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, and scientists.
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New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new ...
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The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed
I'm excited to announce a new Mozilla Research experiment: the Emterpreter, a pure-JavaScript interpreter that can start running large Emscripten-compiled apps faster than JavaScript engines can, giving developers control over ...
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EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available
We announced the t2.nano instances earlier this year. Like their larger siblings (t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, and t2.large), these instances provide a baseline level of processing power, along with the ability to save up unused cycles and use them when the need arises. As I noted in my earlier post (New T2.Large…
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Django CMS 3.2 released
We are very proud to release django CMS 3.2 with a smarter, fresher and cleaner user interface, including huge steps towards full touch-screen support. We've also made it faster and found other ways to optimise its performance. All in all, we think that version 3.2 is the most exciting release yet of django CMS.
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Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
One year of journalism without subscriptions, without ads and without clickbait
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Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision
It’s well known that SHA-1 is no longer considered a secure cryptographic hash function. Researchers now believe that finding a hash collision (two values that result in the same value when SHA-1 is applied) is inevitable and likely to happen.
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Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's a general purpose operating system.
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MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water
MIT researchers have invented an efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
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Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth
Does it always feel like Google’s listening in? Learn how to manage voice recordings, adjust privacy settings, and stop voice activation on Android and iPhone.