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Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,419 posts.
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YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
We’re hosting Startup School again this year. Startup School is a free, 10-week, online course. It’s designed for any startup founder who would like to get help through the earliest, most difficult challenges of starting a company. The course will begin on August 27, 2018 and applications are now open at…
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Mmm, Pi-hole
I have a love-hate relationship with ad blockers. On the one hand, I despise the obnoxious ads that are forced down our throats at what seems like every turn. On the other hand, I appreciate the need for publishers to earn a living so that I can consume their
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The Business of SaaS
Why is SaaS taking over the world? Learn about the SaaS business model, why SaaS businesses work, and how to grow them.
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"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords [https://www.troyhunt.com/introducing-306-million-freely-downloadable-pwned-passwords/]. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations…
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Bye bye BetterSlack
I wrote BetterSlack and Slack asked me to take it down. Find the story here.
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CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to
We've all experienced frustration with the internet going down. Now imagine how frustrated you'd be if you found out that your ISP intentionally blocked your internet access for the purpose of advertising their software; and better yet, your ISP claimed that state legislators required them to do it!...
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VLC 3.0 release
VLC 3.0 playing 8K 48fps 360 video on Android Galaxy S8 from VideoLAN on Vimeo .
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NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive
Over the past week the station has been dedicated to an S-band scan looking for new targets and refreshing the frequency list, triggered by the recent launch of the mysterious ZUMA mission. This t…
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Go 2, here we come
How Go 2 proposals will be evaluated, selected, and shipped.
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...
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How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
Years ago, I used Google Talk with almost everyone I talked to. Nowadays, I talk with almost no one on Hangouts. Google Talk has changed from
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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
Data science is increasingly popular at Berkeley because the world is increasingly data-driven
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Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol.
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A Career Cold Start Algorithm
Starting a new job can be stressful so I've developed an algorithm that has helped me get up to speed quickly.
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Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
How we overvalue the wrong technology and novel aspects of interface design at the expense of substantial gains to our productivity.
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Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash
Recently I wanted to deepen my understanding of bash by researching as much of it as possible. Because I felt bash is an often-used (and under-understood) technology, I ended up writing a book on it .
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Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you’re also signed into Chrome with the same account. Y…
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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
Markov chains, named after Andrey Markov , are mathematical systems that hop from one "state" (a situation or set of values) to another. For example, if you made a Markov chain model of a baby's behavior, you might include "playing," "eating", "sleeping," and "crying" as states, which together with other behaviors…
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Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Starting in version 59, Firefox Private Browsing will remove path data from Referrers sent to third parties. This will help prevent accidentally leaking data to third parties.
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Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
When I first joined a startup in 2012 I did my best to ask the right questions when interviewing. My engineering background prepared me for engineering tasks and helped me write a resume, but it didn’t prepare me well for how to evaluate a startup offer. While this might be obvious to some, this is what I wish I knew…
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GitLab Web IDE
Here's how we went from a proof of concept to a new feature that makes it even easier for everyone to edit inside of GitLab.
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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity.