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Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic
Take a look behind the scenes as the World of Warcraft Classic team give us an update on how they are recreating WoW history. In this Dev Watercooler, the team share core decisions, current thinking, and some of the technical challenges and solutions they’re working on.
Programming Deflation
When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day
What Really Happened to Apple’s Airpower
Read our latest update: What Really Happened to Apple's AirPower?. Visit our site for leaks, news, and reviews for technology and related trends, cars & more.
Apple forces users to pay full price to redownload already bought ebooks
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Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations
This article originally appeared on newsroom.fb.com. We created Facebook AI Research over four years ago to focus on advancing the science and technology of AI, and we’ve always done this by…
Corporations are not to be loved
I started using Apple computers — and writing code for them, starting with BASIC — 43 years ago, before the Macintosh, even, and I’ve made this my career. I’ve had all these decades to really, thoroughly delight in these incredible machines and software, and to give a little back with my own apps.
Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program
Delta filed its SEC 10-K and buried in the 272 pages are several interesting tidbits about the SkyMiles program.
You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer
I’m not going to lie. I was never a Microsoft fan. Not even when I was using Windows (that I begrudgingly moved to after the Amiga). But at least you used to have some awe and respect for the gorilla that was Microsoft. Bill Gates might have been an evil genius, but at least he was a genius. …
Dear Palm, it's just not working out
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Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
WHAT'S THE ISSUE?
Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem
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The Business Case for Formal Methods
This is an “intro packet” you can use to argue for the benefits of formal methods (FM) to your boss. It’s a short explanation, a list of benefits and case studies, and a demo. Everything’s in TLA+, but the arguments apply equally well to Alloy, B, statecharts, etc. Adapt the material to your specific needs. Quick…
Facebook shouldn’t be in charge of how you use Facebook
Unfollow Everything and the need for (good) tech regulation.
Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
Announcing an open source hardware competition to change how blocks (as in blockchain) are produced using far less energy. And on the way, finding a solution to move from proof of work to proof of stake.
Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation
Today, we are excited to triple down on our partnership with Mistral AI by co-leading their €600M Series B round.
Oculus Connect 2014
We’re thrilled to welcome nearly 1,000 developers from around the world to Oculus Connect, our first developer conference. If you’re not at...
VMware outsourcing their support
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
Thoughts on Colocation
After a week of slogging servers around northern California, I thought a brain dump on colocation might be useful to readers, and to future me.
Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530