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Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data
Posted by James Wexler, Senior Software Engineer, Google Big Picture Team(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)Getting the best results out ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,293 posts.
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Waze for Android Auto
The road is where most of us do our best thinking. The Waze blog is where we share ours.
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Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project ZeroPatch diffing is a common technique of comparing ...
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Tendermint 0.10.2
Tendermint is a server and a protocol for building linearizable (or sequentially consistent) byzantine fault-tolerant applications. Tendermint validators accept transactions from clients over HTTP, and replicate them to the other validators in the cluster, forming a totally ordered sequence of transactions. Each…
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AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video
Do you remember what web video was like in the early days? Standalone players, video no larger than a postage stamp, slow & cantankerous connections, overloaded servers, and the ever-present buffering messages were the norm less than two decades ago. Today, thanks to technological progress and a broad array of…
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Moving the NYT Games Platform to Google Cloud With Zero Downtime
Recently I wrote about moving the platform behind The New York Times Crossword to the Google Cloud Platform and mentioned we were able to…
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An Ancient Kernel Hole Is Not Closed
The "stack clash" series of vulnerabilities were a prime opportunity to demonstrate the strength of grsecurity's approach to security. Unlike upstream Linux and other OSes, the issues uncovered were unexploitable under grsecurity for many years.
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LoRaWAN packet received at record distance of 702 km
With the rise of novel wireless technologies, we surprise ourselves over and over again of what these technologies are capable of. LoRa has been around now for
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PyPy v5.9 Released
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy3.5 v5.9 (a beta-quality interpreter for Python 3.5 syntax) and PyPy2.7 v5.9 (an interpreter sup...
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Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning
This guide provides an overview of practical Object Detection applications, its main challenges as a Machine Learning problem and how Deep Learning has changed the way to tackle it.
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How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second
On Friday, we announced DNS analytics for all Cloudflare customers. Because of our scale –– by the time you’ve finished reading this, Cloudflare DNS will have handled millions of DNS queries –– we had to be creative in our implementation.
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.NET Core Image Processing
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and I’ll outline interesting features. I’ll conclude with a…
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Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
By Martin Lee, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Craig Williams. Executive Summary A major ransomware attack has affected many organizations across the world reportedly including Telefonica in Spain, the National Health Service in the UK, and FedEx in the US. The malware responsible for this attack is a ransomware…
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Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio, Video, and More
The RETADUP worm that affected Israeli hospitals turned out have bigger impact than we first thought. It was accompanied by an even more dangerous threat: an Android malware that can take over the device. We’ve named this Android backdoor GhostCtrl.
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Storage engine design
In time-series databases the querying pattern differs from the write pattern. We usually write data in time order by updating many series every second. But querying is a different story. We usually want to read only a handful of series leaving most of the data behind. Here lies the biggest problem, which is we don’t…
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Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2)
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIn this blog post we'll continue our journey into gaining re...