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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
The companies have reached a global patent license agreement and a chipset supply agreement.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,831 posts.
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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Listening for illegal logging chainsaws using TensorFlow
Rainforest Connection founder and CEO Topher White shares how TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning framework, aids in their efforts.
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ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor
A couple of months ago, some friends invited me to give a talk at NullByte Security Conference . I started to study about some embedded devi...
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg , it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Remote code execution via MIDI messages
Blog post about a reverse engineering project
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I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
Software developer based in Montréal, Canada
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New Mac Mini with M4
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.
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The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense […]
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Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
"In the late 1930s, FDR’s Administration supercharged antitrust enforcement, increasing more than eightfold the number of cases brought in just two years."
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Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
Google search results are becoming annoying to use and Open AI is about to eat Google's lunch.
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Fast Software, the Best Software
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
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Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
Has Google's Search Quality deteriorated in recent years? This post measures Google Search using human evaluation.
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Learning to program is getting harder
I have written several books that use Python to explain topics like Bayesian Statistics and Digital Signal Processing. Along with the books...
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Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
Recently Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements and releases of technology that fall under a supposedly “Microsoft Loves Linux” type of strategy. This is particularly noteworthy given the history of Microsoft since the end of the 90s. Their internal policy was a full attack on Linux 1 . and they were…
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Please stop recommending Gitflow
Git-flow is a branching and merging methodology popularized by this blog post, entitled “A Successful Git branching model”. In the last ten years, countless teams have been snookered by…
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Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
Why tinkering matters as a lifelong learning tool.
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Building for the Blockchain
If you’re here, we assume that you’re a developer/hacker who’s intrigued by the blockchain. You’re convinced that you understand how it works and now you’re itching to figure out what the blockchain means for you and your developer skill set.
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When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund. I was asked to share my experience receiving a legal…
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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Scott Forstall leaves Apple
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
Find the latest news, in-depth stories, and important updates from The Walt Disney Company and our brands, businesses, and affiliates.
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Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.
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Summer Reading List
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] “I thought Greenspan was bad but this book paints a positive image. Seb Mallaby is an awesome author so makes for an easy read.”…
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Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
I've recently seen lots of people tweeting this supposed newspaper clipping. An olde-timey warning about wearing flu masks. But is it too good to be true? The first thing to do with any image of a text quote is to search for the text. Look, I'm not saying tumblr isn't great, but… I wouldn't exactly trust it as a…