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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
Our team is hard at work on Thunderbird Pro. Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send in our latest update.
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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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An even slimmer pdf.js
TL;DR: Firefox’s built-in PDF viewer is on track to benefit from additional large reductions in memory consumption when Firefox 33 is released in mid-October.
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Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.
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Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council
DigiCert is electing to withdraw from the CA Security Council (CASC) as we believe CASC is moving in a direction that DigiCert does not support. Read more.
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Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL
Read Couchbase engineering tutorials, product news, and customer stories on AI agents, Capella, vector search, mobile sync, and real-time analytics.
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Learning Concepts with Energy Functions
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Chronic stress spreads cancer
Stress is inevitable. But too much of it can be terrible for our health. Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has remained a mystery—a challenge for cancer care. Xue-Yan He, a former postdoc in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Adjunct…
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Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
Terrace runs sensors attackers cannot tell from real targets. We see new attack sources first, record what they do, and ship the block rules while the attack is still running.
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SQLite Archive Files (2018)
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database.
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A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field
Carolina researchers publish a groundbreaking study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.
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Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
Protect your organization with Idira®. Modernize identity governance, automate access reviews, and secure every identity across your hybrid cloud environment.
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Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites
Today, I am so excited to tell you about the new Amazon Interactive Video Service, which allows you to add live video directly into your own apps and websites. If you are anything like me, you are going to be blown away by how simple the team have made it to integrate interactive, low latency, […]
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Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers
A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.
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Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging
Introduction Earlier this week, Amazon SNS released worldwide SMS delivery and made it available in six AWS Regions. Worldwide SMS delivery means that you can now send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries. Along with this expansion, SNS also enabled default “opt-in” of…
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U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year
Congress approved legislation that will renew and strengthen the federal Open Textbook Pilot, which provides grants to expand OER in higher education.
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Avoid Artificial Stupidity
The first step to AI - data democratisation
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Fixing Gemma Bugs
Unsloth fixing Google's open-source language model Gemma.
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Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial
Trade ministers are meeting behind closed-doors at the Westin Resort and Spa in Maui this week to finalize the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is the first formal round of talks since the U.S. passed the controversial Fast Track trade legislation in June, which has given U.S....
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
Adventures with dry ice and RP2350 - how fast can it go?
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Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse
The feature store is a data warehouse of features for machine learning (ML)....
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We just released VLC 1.1.0
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework , that plays most multimedias files, medias and streaming protocols.
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?