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Hubble Reveals Latest Portrait of Saturn
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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Access Control for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now gives you the option to limit access, making the site visible only to users with access to the repository that published the Page. With access control, you…
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Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?
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Dropbox Acquires Mailbox
Securely sharing content is faster than ever. Learn about secure link sharing in Dropbox and how to send links to files with our link sharing app.
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JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily
WARNING STARTS As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use...
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How Blender started, twenty years ago
Celebrating 20 years of Blender code!
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Hopfield Networks Is All You Need
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The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world
In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also under legal threat. The good news: the Archive, with...
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How we reduced the impact of zombie clients
Every night, right around midnight (mainly UTC), a horde of zombies wakes up and clamors for … digital certificates! The zombies in question are abandoned or misconfigured Internet servers and ACME clients that have been set to request certificates from Let’s Encrypt. As our certificates last for at most 90 days…
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Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions
Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.
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EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits
Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a federal district court did just that in the latest iteration of Oracle v. Rimini, concluding that...
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Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.
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DragonflyBSD 5.0
DragonFly version 5.0 brings the first bootable release of HAMMER2, DragonFly's next generation file system.
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CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
Time to upgrade
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
A walkthrough of a couple of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) features with security recommendations and advice on how to configure your GCP environments.
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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly…
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Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups
What's the #1 need of early-stage tech startups? Experienced software engineers. And they are becoming impossible to find in Silicon Valley, even though they are everywhere.
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Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
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Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decrease by 0.4% in 2026 – driven by expansion of solar and wind power and the Iran conflict – according to new research by the Global
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The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy
Pulling back the curtain on the evolution of ebooks offers some clarity to how the shift to digital left ownership behind in the analog world.
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Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope
In an unusual trial, Stanford Medicine researchers found that a patient’s belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn’t, could improve their depression.