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Oral Microbes Linked to 3-Fold Increased Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
NYU Langone study shows that oral bacteria and fungi involved in gum disease may also increase risk for pancreatic cancer more than threefold. Learn more.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,706 posts.
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Amazon S3’s 15th Birthday: 5,475 Days and 100T Objects
I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing information. Developers found that post, started to write…
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Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?
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RAG to Riches
Today I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers.
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New “Terrorist Content” Regulations: A Grim Day for Digital Rights in Europe
Despite waves of calls and emails from European Internet users, the European Parliament today voted to accept the principle of a universal pre-emptive copyright filter for content-sharing sites, as well as the idea that news publishers should have the right to sue others for quoting news items...
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We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Here, we’re sharing the research behind how we’re translating that to design editing workflows.
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Unpacking the Benefits of Zero Trust Architecture as Defined by NIST
NIST has released a draft of SP 1800-35 , Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture. The lengthy documents lay out their definition of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) , the benefits, why it’s important, a few examples of how an organization can implement them, expected results associated with their example builds, and a…
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How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography
Gage Skidmore has photographed nearly every presidential candidate since 2008 — and by giving away all of his images for free, he has quickly become the Internet's most prominent political photographer.
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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Three years ago, we released the design for the Adept, a unique trackball perfectly suited for the use of QMK, for 3D-printing, and for ambidextrous use across a wide variety of applications.
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DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13
DeepComputing is excited to announce the launch of an exclusive early access program for the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard, specifically designed for industry and business customers. This limited-edition initiative gives early adopters hands-on experience with premium, modular RISC-V development hardware, while their…
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Microsoft Edge supports ES6 modules
Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language support. Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows Insider Preview build 14342 brings more…
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Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization
Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI) developed by Oracle Labs. TruffleRuby has high potential in…
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Ten Years of Instapaper
On January 28, 2008, Marco Arment announced a new side project called Instapaper. Ten years and billions of articles later, we’re thrilled to be helping our readers learn, research and experience the Internet removed from the typical distractions.
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The Fake Cisco
True cyber security combines advanced technology and best practice. Get tips and read articles on how to take your online security even further.
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Distributed Authorization
Using local data to answer authorization questions with Oso Cloud
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Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic
Cinia agreed to start a project to build a new subsea cable in the Arctic with Alaskan company Far North Digital.
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Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Surveillance
Next month, President-elect Trump will be handed the keys to the NSA’s vast spying apparatus. As a candidate, he supported mass surveillance of Americans’ phone calls, called for expanded spying on American Muslims, and even invited Russia to hack the emails of his political opponent. With these threats to privacy and…
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Apache Druid vs. Time-Series Databases
Although Druid draws ideas from a number of TSDB concepts, it is designed for a wider range of analytic use cases than those for which a TSDB is usually employed.
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Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven binary format parsers
With an eye toward performance, interoperability, or legacy concerns, low-level system software often must parse binary encoded data formats. Few tools are available for this task, especially since the formats involve a mixture of arithmetic and data dependence, beyond what can be handled by typical parser generators…
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Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5
Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 Jul 18th, 2012 | by Sven Bergström Multiplayer and browsers When you consider making multiplayer games, there are …
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll
Big news from Texas: Adam Carolla has settled with the podcasting patent troll Personal Audio. Although the settlement is confidential, we can guess the terms. This is because Personal Audio sent out a press release last month saying it was willing to walk away from its suit with Carolla. So we can...
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