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Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux
ESET researchers analyzed previously unknown Linux backdoors that are connected to known Windows malware used by the China-aligned Gelsemium group, as well as to Project Wood.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
Bitwarden includes a very handy integration called forwarded email aliases. Learn how to use the feature in this blog!
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Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
Under READ COMMITTED isolation, PostgreSQL can sometimes miss rows when performing UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, or SELECT FOR SHARE statements. This is due to the EvalPlanQual recheck PostgreSQL adds to these statements to prevent lost-update anomalies.
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Generating audio for video
Video-to-audio research uses video pixels and text prompts to generate rich soundtracks
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
Technical details on how Stripe built Ledger, a state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, including how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
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Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
Comparing typical one-way transfer latencies for a range of popular wireless communication modules and protocols
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Trilobites killed by volcanic ash
Some of the most perfectly preserved trilobite fossils ever found have revealed details of the extinct arthropod unknown until now.
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Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
With the release of WASI Preview 2, we take a step back and look at why it matters for wasmCloud and the WebAssembly ecosystem.
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Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.
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Lawsuit challenges Virginia City's use of cameras for warrantless surveillance
NORFOLK, Va.—Today, two Norfolk-area residents teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a federal lawsuit against the city, challenging the constitutionality of […]
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Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice
In a new study , a molecule identified and synthesized by UCLA Health researchers was shown to restore cognitive functions in mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease by effectively jumpstarting the brain's memory circuitry.
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Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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The Backbone of Cybersecurity: Hardware Security Modules
Discover how Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) provide robust security solutions for managing cryptographic keys and protecting sensitive data in various industries.
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SearchGPT Prototype
We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
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Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector
Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies.
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Jepsen: Jetcd 0.8.2
Etcd is a coordination service designed to offer Strict Serializable reads, writes, and micro-transactions over a small, in-memory key-value store. In 2022, Jepsen re-tested etcd as a part of a private engagement covering an assortment of databases. We reported several issues to the etcd team during that engagement…
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Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth
Introducing the autonomy, product, and operations teams.
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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader…
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When are SSDs slow?
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction
By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan
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Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)
<p>More than most technical procedures in the ancient world, drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked […]</p>
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Lingo: A Go micro language framework for building Domain Specific Languages
Design, build and integrate your own Domain Specific Language with Lingo.
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Serialization for C# Games
Build complex state preservation systems for implementing game save systems or custom netcode with Chickensoft's new serialization tools.
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Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go
Quartz shares the high level design of a Clock interface that closely resembles the functions in the time standard library, and a "real" clock passes through to the standard library in production, while a mock clock gives precise control in testing.