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AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Elastic Load Balancing Adds Support for Host-based Routing and Increased Rules on its Application Load Balancer
Sad News for the Opscode Community
<p>I have some sad news for the Opscode community:</p> <p>Mitch Hill passed away yesterday morning after a difficult fight with cancer.
Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.
Lean Eval for Alignment on Faithfulness
We turn intent into mathematics, verify every step formally, and make sure the machine does what it is supposed to.
Google Cloud to Join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group
In tomorrow’s enterprise, developers and IT professionals work in an environment characterized by technological choice: open, cross-platform development where the best tools are easily within reach. As enterprises adopt public and hybrid cloud at an accelerated pace, Google Cloud is committed to fostering an open…
EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...
How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
In a new study, Yale SOM’s Tauhid Zaman and Yen-Shao Chen show how a social media platform can shift users’ positions or increase overall polarization by selectively muting and amplifying posts in ways that appear neutral to an outside observer.
Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
It all started as a curiosity in 2015. Now, the whole world is looking into universal basic income to stimulate the economy. The timing of Finland’s basic income experiment results could not have been better. But what can we learn from it when reimagining the post-pandemic economy and society? It...
The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
There's a lot to consider when charting the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years. Let's dive in!
Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
Brave’s use of direct mailers
As Brave continues to grow, we find many users who haven't heard of us yet, so we try new marketing channels for efficacy, reach, affordability, and privacy.
CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms…
Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits, it’s worth paying attention. In a recent…
Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle
SendGrid's trusted email API and marketing campaigns platform is now available through Twilio.com.
Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We're Going
An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow.
Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use
A comprehensive guide to Fusion for personal use changes — what's changing and what is remaining the same.
A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard. If we pick your project, we'll fund it with $100k.
New GitHub Profile Badges Beta
Available in public beta today, we're announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.
Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately
The solution to one of our most challenging privacy issues of today could have the simplest answer.