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Chrome OS is here to stay
We’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both Android and Chrome OS, but there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS.
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Keybase raises $10.8M
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Amazon Aurora Now Available
We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info). With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver…
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Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. There's pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web. In recent months, there have been ...
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Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, revers...
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Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek as we designed
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Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
Today we’re releasing Signal 2.0, with support for TextSecure private messaging. It is now possible to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and video messages between Signal on iPhone and TextSecure on Android, all without SMS and MMS fees. Signal 2.0 blends private phone calls and pri...
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Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy. Throughout all that time, the U.S....
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Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
One secure place for everything critical to your team: messaging, file sharing, and collaboration — deployed on your terms.
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Launching NginScript
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Google launches offline maps
Download an area of the world to your phone, and the next time you find there’s no connectivity Google Maps will continue to work seamlessly.
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Hello World
We started Cockroach Labs with a clear objective: build the database we'd been itching after for years, and build it as open source, from the start. Today, we’re launching CockroachDB for everyone.
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We Tried Slack and Regretted It
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me “Why aren’t your campers using Slack?” I’d considered Slack...
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DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
We set out with ambitious plans but after a year of development, we’ve run out of cash and are shutting down Wattage.
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Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
Given the shortcomings of CoffeeScript, we investigated many alternatives, including ClojureScript, Babel, Elm, and PureScript. TypeScript stood out as a clear winner. Here's why.
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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
By Mollie Ruskin, United States Digital Service
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