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Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
So there is a thread on Hacker News based on a question from a Canonical employee asking for feedback on what people want from the next version of Ubuntu. I always try to read such threads even when they are not about Fedora or Red Hat. I fact I often read such articles and threads...
D2: Diagram Scripting Language
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
Building an Open Source Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust
A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.
Oracle Contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK
GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation.
Irssi 1.0.0 Released
Irssi 1.0.0 has been released. This release contains many improvements. Irssi 1.0.0 includes contributions by Lukas Mai, Xavier G, Kenny Root, Jari Matilainen, Todd A. Pratt, Manish Goregaokar, B. Thibault, Joseph Bisch, Will Storey, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lauri Nurmi, Tom Feist, Thomas Samson, Dennis Schagt, Mantas…
Announcing TypeScript 2.2
Today our team is happy to present our latest release with TypeScript 2.2! For those who haven't yet heard of it, TypeScript is a simple extension to
Mastering Stratego
Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been mastered. Published in Science, we present DeepNash, an AI agent that learned the game from scratch to a human expert level by…
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
EFF has been writing about the upcoming European Digital Single Market directive on copyright for a long time now. But it's time to put away the keyboard, and pick up the phone, because the proposal just got worse—and it's headed for a crucial vote on June 20-21. For those who need no further...
To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
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Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought
Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed. Organizations using Microsoft and Azure services should take steps to assess potential impact.
LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
The LibreRouter project has developed an open source, open hardware router, customized to the needs of community-run networks.
Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
How To Build The Future: Jessica is a cofounder of Y Combinator.
Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability. It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies...
Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution
Google networking leaders reflect on the milestones that led to Jupiter supporting 13 petabits per second bandwidth, and what comes next.
Blender 2.78 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
What are skiplists good for?
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs.
Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text
Posted by Jonathan Shen and Ruoming Pang, Software Engineers, on behalf of the Google Brain and Machine Perception TeamsGenerating very natural sou...
Blender Lab
Introducing an innovation space within the Blender project.
Building end-to-end security for Messenger
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …