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Goodbye Mac App Store
While Jettison and HistoryHound are still supported and sold on the St. Clair Software website, I’ve pulled them from the Mac App Store. The versions that were in the Mac App Store were older revisions, and it just didn’t make business sense to rearchitect the apps to meet Apple’s current requirements for approval so…
230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
Over the past several weeks, Signal traffic has gone through the roof. New users are signing up at unprecedented rates, and we’ve expanded our server capacity faster than we ever anticipated. It means a lot to us that so many people are relying on Signal during this difficult time. When users che...
Structured logging with slog
The Go 1.21 standard library includes a new structured logging package, log/slog.
Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eighteen models across twenty-five tasks.
Docker 0-Day Stopped Cold by SELinux
The latest on the world’s leading enterprise Linux® platform
How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.
India’s Downward Spiral
How India is losing its footing on free expression. The world’s biggest democracy is a formidable power in the IT sector. With software exports comprising approximately ten percent of India’s total GDP and a technology sector that employs more than 2.5 million people, India is poised to become a...
Bunny AI
Bunny.net introduces Bunny AI, a multi-model image engine creating images via simple URLs. Powered by OpenAI and StabilityAI, Bunny AI generates dynamic profile avatars and more. Try it free in our experimental release and help us shape the future of internet performance!
Making EC2 boot time faster
It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
Why We're Moving on from Nix
Meet Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up on lessons from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass
Oh my GOSH this is getting good. One of my favorite planes the F-4 Phantom. And one of our alpha testers recently casually mentioned that he was an Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom flight instructor. I’ve been exchanging emails with him about every 30 minutes or so, on average, for 12-hour-long days, for the past […]
A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.
LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
We aren't going anywhere.
Sublime Text 2 Build 2181
A new beta of Sublime Text 2, Build 2181, is available now for your enjoyment. The first thing you'll notice is the new icon, by the The Iconfactory .
GitHub: October 21 Incident Report
At 10:52 pm Sunday UTC, multiple services on GitHub.com were affected by a network partition and subsequent database failure resulting in inconsistent information being presented on our website.
Tor Browser 9.5
Tor Browser 9.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform
Hello, my name is Maxim Babenko, I’m the head of the distributed computing technologies department at Yandex. Today we’re pleased to…
Pharo 14
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.