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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
Recently, Firefox had an incident in which most add-ons stopped working. This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons ...
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Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple...
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
The $6-10 lottery application fee that Recreation.gov charges doesn’t go to the park, but into Recreation.gov’s pockets. In 2022, for 6 out of these 9 lotteries, Recreation.gov makes made more money than the park.
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Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
Genuine Apple parts and tools can be purchased by US customers on August 23.
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Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
Changes in complex software systems seem like they take forever, don’t they? Even to engineers it often feels like changes take longer than they should, and we understand the reasons for the underlying complexity in the system! For stakeholders it can be even more obtuse and frustrating. This can be exacerbated by the…
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Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
An interview with this specialist in human rights, technology and freedom of expression to discuss how today’s societies are advancing to the drumbeat of “digital colonialism”.
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U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On?
What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital? “This time is different.” It is different. Because it’s always different… And one big reason is mobile.
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October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
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The Reddits
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
By Adam Feldman, APIs Product Manager UPDATE June 3: In the days since we announced the deprecation of the Translate API, we’ve seen the ...
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WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
Just over a year ago we presented WaveNet, a new deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms that is capable of producing better and more realistic-sounding speech than existing techniques. At that time, the model was a research prototype and was too computationally intensive to work in consumer products.
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Godot at GDC 2018
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
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TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation, creativity, and...
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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.
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Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
New cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW 5 series and Peugeot 308, are now swallowing around 50% more fuel than their lab test results, new…
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An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
Here’s a look at why you should remove Google Analytics from your website and help create a more open, independent web that’s more friendly to the visitors.
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How and why I built Japan Dev
Japan Dev started as a list of companies I wanted to work for back in 2014. Here's the story of how that idea morphed into a job board showcasing hundreds...
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Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
Here at EFF, we see a lot of stupid patents. There was the patent on “scan to email.” And the patent on “bilateral and multilateral decision making.” There are so many stupid patents that Mark Cuban endowed a chair at EFF dedicated to eliminating them. We wish we could catalog them all, but with...
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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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