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KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released
KeePassXC Password Manager
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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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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear
Veripol is a software that assesses the veracity of complaints filed with the Spanish national police. It was introduced in 2018, but it's unclear if it works as intended.
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D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) sunsetting DC/OS and focusing on Kubernetes
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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The Three Sides of Risk
I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe.
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Using neural networks to solve advanced mathematics equations
Facebook AI has developed the first neural network that uses symbolic reasoning to solve advanced mathematics problems.
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Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
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ASICs at the Edge
At Cloudflare, we pride ourselves in our global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. To accelerate all that traffic through our network, there are multiple technologies at play. So let’s have a look at one of the cornerstones that makes all of this work.
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Museum of Digital Art forced to close its doors
It is with a heavy heart that the Museum of Digital Art announces today the untimely closure of its location in Zurich at the end of July 2020. After four years of successful growth, Europe’s first physical museum dedicated to digital art was hit hard by the Covid19 lockdown, as it runs without any public funding…
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to…
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Getting Started with Ansible
This post was originally published on November 12, 2020, but the content has been updated according to the recent Ansible changes. In our previous blog post , we looked at what configuration management tools bring to the table. And in this post, we will take a closer look at Ansible, our configuration management tool…
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New report on the cellular effects of a calorie-restricted diet in rats
Founded by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization. We drive foundational, risk-taking research that addresses society’s most pressing challenges, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and agricultural resilience.
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May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More
With the PinePhone and Pinebook Pro production well under way and shipping in just a few days time, we’ll now be turning our attention to the other projects we have in the pipeline. There is a fair bit of material to cover this month - the main piece of news, however, is that we’ll be taking pre-orders for the PineTab…
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India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
Counterpoint Research Insight
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Data-Transfer-Project
Since 2010, we have offered Download Your Information to allow people who use our services to access a secure copy of the data they have shared with Facebook. In 2018, we announced our participatio…
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Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1
What do nested transactions look like in an ACID environment? We explore the journey of a nested SQL transaction in CockroachDB in this post.
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NetBSD 9.1
After a small delay * , the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1 , the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.
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State of Independent SaaS
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.
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Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is…
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Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)
Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought...
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Peppering (Password Storage)
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
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Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
The rules of logic no longer apply when you cross the line.
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Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)
By Nick Szabo, 2002
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Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.