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OAuth 2.0 Authentication Vulnerabilities
While browsing the web, you've almost certainly come across sites that let you log in using your social media account. The chances are that this feature is ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,693 posts.
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Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla
Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla! Today, August 26, marks the 25th anniversary of Bugzilla! The first two paragraphs lifted from our Bugzilla h...
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Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite
Discover the power of Snapdragon X Elite with upstreamed Linux kernel support. Explore areas of focus and unlock new potential with Snapdragon Linux today.
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OPPA: Ohio could become the third US state to enact a new consumer privacy law
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Bootstrap 5 Beta 1
With our first beta release of Bootstrap 5, we're calling it on new features and breaking changes. From here on out, we're only fine-tuning features, bugs, and…
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NetBSD 9.0
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.0, the seventeenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.
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Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software. have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.
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DuckDB 0.9
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many changes to discuss them each in…
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A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities
An international research team led by QuTech has demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future quantum internet. The team developed fully independently operating nodes and integrated…
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Nim partners with Status.im
We're incredibly excited to announce the new partnership between Status and Nim.
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Let’s Write a Firefox Web Extension
You might have heard about Mozilla's WebExtensions, our implementation of a new browser extension API for writing multiprocess-compatible add-ons. Maybe you've been wondering what it was about, and how you ...
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever…
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The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS
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How to make any immutable data structure distributed
Spark-style distributed datasets can be modeled with a few lines of code, using Unison's distributed computing library. This article teaches you how.
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How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
We created a centralized authentication service, called Identity, by building upon functionality from the OpenID Connect (OIDC) specification.
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Forests offset warming more than thought: study
Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.
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SQLite 3.43
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Stop the Border Surveillance Bills
UPDATE: EFF also opposes H.R. 3548. Like S. 1757, it would expand border surveillance with biometric, drone, and ALPR technologies. The bill, styled the Border Security for America Act, was introduced by Rep. McCaul in July. EFF opposes a new federal bill that would dramatically expand dragnet...
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BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained
This article explains how BuildKit works in depth, why it's faster than Docker's previous build engine, and what it looks like under the hood.
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How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment by Liveblocks
Notoriously tough to build, undo/redo in a multiplayer environment is even more fraught with difficulty. In this article, we will take you on a behind-the-scenes exclusive, explaining one of the most complex developer issues for multiplayer apps.
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Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
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PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.6 is available for download. This …
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Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
Working largely on its own, Claude designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published versions, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more.
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How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
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Stable Diffusion launch announcement
The model itself builds upon the work of the team at CompVis and Runway in their widely used latent diffusion model combined with insights from the conditional diffusion models by our lead generative AI developer Katherine Crowson, Dall-E 2 by Open AI, Imagen by Google Brain and many others. We are