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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
A new 8GB RAM variant of Raspberry Pi 4 is available today, priced at just $75. Visit your favourite Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller to get yours.
Firefox 25 is released
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 25!
Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
Tor Browser 15.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption
Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.
WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the many additions to WebKit that are included in Safari 16.4.
If PHP Were British
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
How does Apple privately find offline devices?
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
Resisting Cognitive Surrender
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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
NOTE June 2026: Hetzner announced over 100% increases in prices. They will honour old prices for instances built before June 15th 2026, but for new instances the performance/price ratios show below are no longer valid.
Countering threats from North Korea
On February 10, Threat Analysis Group discovered two distinct North Korean government-backed attacker groups exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome, …
Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
There’s a lot of fantastic research into 2D graphics rendering these days. Petr Kobalicek and Fabian Yzerman have been working on Blend2D , one of the fastest and most accurate CPU rasterizers on the market, with a novel JIT approach. Patrick Walton of Mozilla has explored not just one, but three separate approaches…
Mistakes as a new manager
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager is tough but rewarding. The key is to delegate, find new sources of fulfillment, focus on quality over quantity, maintain proper engagement…
Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood cof...
An SVG is all you need
SVGs are pretty cool - vector graphics in a simple XML format. They are supported on just about every device and platform, are crisp on every display, and can have embedded scripts in to make them interactive. They're way more capable than many people realise, and I think we can capitalise on some of that unrealised…
Magit 3.0
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
Using io_uring for network I/O
Discover io_uring, an async I/O API for Linux that can potentially benefit networking, and learn how to integrate it into your applications and I/O libraries.
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
You can now generate videos in Gemini, powered by Veo 2.
The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…
AI and Compute
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of…