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A case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,696 posts.
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Neeva acquired by Snowflake
Snowflake is acquiring Neeva, a search company founded to make search even more intelligent at scale by leveraging generative AI and other innovations.
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Email immutability matters more in a world with AI
Email immutability matters even more in a world of AI. Here is how we enable your use of your data, in line with our values.
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DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
Today, most people develop applications on operating systems such as Linux which are more than thirty years old, even though computing has changed a lot in the meantime. Since Linux was first released in 1991, the size of application state and data has grown by several orders of magnitude, many applications have moved…
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The FPGA turns 40
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first commercially viable FPGA introduced in 1985 was the Xilinx XC2064, which provided developers with 64 configurable logic blocks, each with a three-input look-up tables. From tiny…
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Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Void captures over a million Android TV boxes
Doctor Web experts have uncovered yet another case of an Android-based TV box infection. The malware, dubbed <a href="https://vms.drweb.com/search/?q=Android.Vo1d&lng=en"><b>Android.Vo1d</b></a>, has infected nearly 1.3 million devices belonging to users in 197 countries. It is a backdoor that puts its components in…
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ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries
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Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure
We recently learned that a component of Android responsible for generating secure random numbers contains critical weaknesses , that render all Android wallets generated to date vulnerable to theft. Because the problem lies with Android itself, this problem will affect you if you have a wallet generated by any Android…
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Analog Computers
Analog computers, predominant in high-performance computing until the 1970s, were forgotten when digital computers took over. We need to change that.
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Guide to Serverless Architecture
Serverless architecture is a cloud-based development model in which the cloud provider manages the servers and the developer only needs to focus on the code.
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WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy
WhatsApp may be secure but it’s not private. Learn about the best alternatives to WhatsApp that genuinely respect your privacy.
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Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++
Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board Back in 2021, we announced...
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Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your…
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TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship
A new standard for cryptography is on the horizon, called Transport Level Security 1.3 (TLS 1.3). TLS 1.3 is a major update to cryptography, and
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WTF is a KDF?
Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
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Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company's flagship platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise…
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Amtrak police use of passenger data
[Passenger Name Record (PNR) view from Amtrak “Police GUI”. Click image for larger version.]
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Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control
Synack Red Team breaks down a Windows RCE vulnerability enabling full remote code execution and complete attacker control — exploitation techniques and real-world security analysis.
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IA Writer in Paper
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
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Why Zulip will stand the test of time
Quill, a team chat company with $16 million in venture capital funding, was acquired by Twitter and shut down their product last week. Users were given a mere four days to export their data prior to deletion; direct messages and private channels could not be exported at all. Our sympathies go out to …
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Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)
The vulnerabilities we found in Cloudflare's CIRCL FourQ implementation: invalid-point attacks, Edwards-curve edge cases, and the disclosure that fixed them.
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Elm from a Business Perspective
Elm is not just technically great, it also allows building business around it