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Vulnerabilities in chips in 37% of smartphones
Highlights Check Point Research discovered vulnerabilities in MediaTek’s chips, embedded in 37% of all smartphones globally CPR discovered several %
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The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever
Bike Index and StolenBicycleRegistry.com merge, forming registration powerhouse
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Yeoman 1.0 Released
Get started and then find a generator for your webapp. Generators are available for Angular , Backbone , React , Polymer and over 5600+ other projects .
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Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 13 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
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Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
Scientists have discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets, just 40 light years away, that could be potentially habitable for life. The extrasolar planets were found with the TRAPPIST telescope orbiting a dim dwarf star.
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User Disengagement
User disengagement is the product and business development philosophy we follow at Zerodha, the anti-thesis of user "engagement".
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Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
You might know about Microsoft's Flight Simulator release in August last year and like me, if you're interested in flight simulators or photorealistic…
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Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph
A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously dip, dart and dive through a tree-filled field at upwards of 30 miles per hour.
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Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation with Environment Affordance
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Nginx Load Balancing Basics
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load
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Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
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Billions of Messages a Day – Yelp's Real-Time Data Pipeline
Billions of Messages a Day - Yelp's Real-time Data Pipeline Justin C., Software Engineer Jul 14, 2016 This post is part of a series covering Yelp's real-time streaming data infrastructure....
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Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers
Discover Firebase, Google’s mobile and web app development platform that helps developers build apps and games that users will love.
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Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (2017)
When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability. In 1994, he reported his concerns with FBI lab practices internally. It was “alterations of reports, alterations of…
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How do other animals see the world?
Take a look through the eyes of a dog, a spider and three other creatures.
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Elasticsearch – the definitive guide
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
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Is REST Best in a Microservices Architecture?
Some thoughts on microservice communication mechanisms
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Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor
Today, we're releasing two of the biggest updates in Mode's history, designed not only to make Mode more powerful, but also to make that power accessible to everyone.
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Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane
Rice scientists and collaborators at Texas A&M University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new way to kill cancer cells by using near-infrared light to make a small dye molecule attached to their membrane vibrate strongly. It is the first time this kind of mechanical molecular action has…
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Squeak 5 is out
From: Chris Muller, In the 17 months since Squeak 4.5 was released, a huge development effort took place to create the next generation virtual-machine for the Squeak / Pharo / Newspeak family of pr…
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Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its...
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A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers
This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileged process. Their security implications were confirmed via a proof of concept that achieves kernel read and write…
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Nitra, JetBrains’ research project for language tooling, goes open-source
We’ve been rather quiet about Nitra since our introductory blog post, back in November of last year. But we haven’t been sitting still. We’ve been busy building the foundations to a project that we wa
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Vectors are over, hashes are the future
Get an introduction into the thinking behind the rise of neural hashing technology — and learn why this may end up being an enormous shift in AI advancement.
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