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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
What Happened to Yahoo
August 2010 When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be. What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the…
What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password
Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. Frequently, it's some long-forgotten site
I hacked my car
Note: As of 2022/10/25 the information in this series is slightly outdated. See Part 5 for more up to date information. The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated…
HTML Tips (2020)
20 HTML tips with examples: mailto and tel links, opening links in a new tab, lazy loading, a native accordion, range sliders, download links and more.
Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
A continuous version of Conway's Life, using floating point values instead of integers: supports many interesting phenomena such as gliders that can travel in any direction, rotating pairs of gliders, wickstretchers and the appearance of elastic tension in the 'cords' that join the blobs. Slides showing how the rule…
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.
Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past 90 days of message history and …
Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.
I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disasters
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there’s usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplement…
You said no MCP
Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
neflabs.com is your first and best source for information about neflabs. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
What percentile approximations are, how percentiles work in PostgreSQL, and calculating them efficiently on time-series data.
An Intro to Compilers
A compiler is just a program that translates other programs. Traditional compilers translate source code into executable machine code that your computer understands. (Some compilers translate source code into another programming language. These compilers are called source-to-source translators or transpilers.) LLVM is…
AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?
ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.