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Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without warrants at the U.S. border. The plaintiffs in the case are...
In 1999 — back when Snake 🐍 was the best thing about your phone 📱 — there were three phone carriers in Japan 🗾 . On these phones were tiny, beautiful pictures called emoji (meaning “picture” and “character” in Japanese 🥰 ). These 176 images were very simple — think 8-bit tech — and as a result were exquisitely…
Y Combinator provides a small amount of seed funding for startups. We work with startups on their ideas and help founders deal with investors and acquirers. We fund four batches of companies each year. Companies apply for the program by filling out an application form. Y Combinator is occasionally described as a boot…
Common Kubernetes mistakes: missing resource limits, misconfigured probes, no ingress controller, wrong autoscaling, weak RBAC, missing anti-affinity and PDBs.
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From the Zed Blog: Zed for Windows is finally here. Download it today.
If you’re an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch user you’ll be happy to learn that Firefox for iOS is now available in the App Store worldwide. Firefox for iOS lets ...
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
With the Phoenix v1.5 release, learn how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive, real-time applications.
The Flask framework has been stable for a long time. A little more than 8 years after the first commit, the version number finally reflects that. 1.0 comes with a significant number of changes representing over a year of work.
Bike Outliner now supports rich text! Download Release notes Bike’s rich text editing should be familiar. There’s also innovation 1 . I’m trying to improve the fundamentals of how…
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The principal…
This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the NSA by Edward Snowden. There are four perspectives: that of someone who was involved with sifting through the information to responsibly inform the public, a security area director of the…
It’s finally here, and it’s the biggest update to the platform yet
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design", the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper "for protein structure prediction"
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies....
Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of vis
WebAssembly , a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to…
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-p0.
We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft's GW-BASIC on GitHub!
We got SOC2 certified so now you have to pay us more.
