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Ransomware as a Service
Ransomware as a Service, Author: Xavier Mertens
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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GitHub acquires AppCanary
aToday, we’re excited to announce that we’re going to be able to build tools that impact almost every software developer on the planet — we’re joining GitHub.
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples
40 common false assumptions programmers make about names, debunked with real-world examples from global naming systems and identity practices.
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V8 release v7.2
V8 v7.2 features high-speed JavaScript parsing, faster async-await, reduced memory consumption on ia32, public class fields, and much more!
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A 100k Botnet Turns Home Routers to Email Spammers
This article was co-authored by Hui Wang and RootKiter. Since September 2018, 360Netlab Scanmon has detected multiple scan spikes on TCP port 5431, each time the system logged more than 100k scan sources, a pretty large number compared with most other botnets we have covered before. The interaction between the
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First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial
One year after researchers published their work on a physiological test for autism, a follow-up study confirms its exceptional success in assessing whether a child is on the autism spectrum.
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.
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Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the first steps for integrating CoreOS Tectonic, Quay, and Container Linux with Red Hat’s robust container and Kubernetes-based solutions portfolio. Container application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container…
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Sunsetting Tor Messenger
In 2015, we introduced Tor Messenger, a cross-platform chat program that aimed to be secure by...
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From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story
Google Cloud is the birthplace of Kubernetes—originally developed at Google and released as open source in 2014. Learn the Kubernetes origin story.
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DragonFly BSD 5.2
DragonFly version 5.2 brings Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, significant improvements to HAMMER2, ipfw, and graphics acceleration. 5.2.1 includes a fix for CVE-2018-8897 , and 5.2.2 includes a fix for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665 .
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Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
This Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab web page is now available at https://textiles.cs.cmu.edu/publications/2018-autoknit/ .
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Requiring secure contexts for all new features
Since Let’s Encrypt launched, secure contexts have become much more mature. We have witnessed the successful restriction of existing, as well as new features to secure contexts. The W3C TAG ...
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The Growth of Reddit
Explore the Quillbot blog for practical articles on writing, grammar, creativity, AI tools, education, marketing, and career growth.
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The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
We’re more likely to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over, and we justify it by convincing ourselves it’s not as unhealthy as it is, according to new research by marketing professor Kelly Haws.
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Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
Program a Linux GUI that runs on Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Fedora. In less than five minutes, your friends will be able to download and install your app.
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Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)
In this post I dig into planning, and how it is a fundamental part of what makes a game engaging. Planning affects many aspects of what is s...
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Perl 6 Optimism
Andrew Shitov made my day with his It’s time for optimism blog post, in which he talks about some random things related to Perl 6 and its future. Well, not entirely random: the impetus for th…
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