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Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.0.0-preview1.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...
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Gimp is 25 years old today
Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.
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Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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James Randi Has Died
We are very sad to say that James Randi passed away yesterday, due to age-related causes. He had an Amazing life. We will miss him. Please respect Deyvi Peña’s privacy during this...
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
Stanford Center for Internet and Society2020613 points234 commentscited by 8Society, Policy & Culture details
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with apologies to Douglas Adams)[1] There’s a new bill afoot in Congress called the EARN IT Act. A “discussion draft”
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hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
Discover how hCaptcha has become the largest independent CAPTCHA service and now runs on 15% of the internet.
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Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
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Firefox 81.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
Please note that after careful consideration, we have made the decision to end the Amazon Honeycode beta service, effective February 29, 2024. VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I […]
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A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
We’re implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology. We will continue to allow organizations like Thorn, the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Marinus Analytics to use Amazon Rekognition to help rescue human trafficking victims…
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Blur Tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
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What Is Nix?
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
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The Case of the Extra 40ms
By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering
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Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
The University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca plc, today announces interim trial data from its Phase III trials that show its candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019, is effective at preventing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and offers a high level of protection.
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable...
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AMD to Acquire Xilinx
A AMD oferece soluções de computação adaptativa e de alto desempenho de liderança para promover IA de data center, PCs com IA, dispositivos de borda inteligentes, jogos e muito mais.
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PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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An introduction to RabbitMQ
What is RabbitMQ? Find out about this open-source message broker in our introduction to the powerful Message Queue tech.
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Standing on our own two feet
Update, July 10, 2023 See our new blog post for details on the September 2024 expiration of the newer ISRG Root X1 cross-sign from IdenTrust. Update, December 21, 2020 Thanks to community feedback and our wonderful partners at IdenTrust, we will be able to continue to offer service without interruption to people using…
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How to SSH Properly
This post explains security best practices to use SSH properly and securely