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The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.
Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]
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A few of our favorite SSH tricks and tips sure to improve your daily experience.
Today, we’re pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about letting users know that browser fingerprinting was...
Hold for Me helps you take your time on hold back, starting with an early preview on Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a (5G) in the U.S.
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We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we…
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
Please note that after careful consideration, we have made the decision to end the Amazon Honeycode beta service, effective February 29, 2024. VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I […]
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize your work. Lists are simple, smart, and flexible, so you can stay on top...
If you are newly working or going to school from home, the remote approach can be a big shift in how to get things done. Firefox has a number of browser ex
The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.
I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking. They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside
Learn how to install Podman, practice its basic commands, transition away from Docker, and set up Apache HTTP Server 2.4 in a CentOS container with Podman.
An SEO case study: the 7 steps we used to grow a SaaS site from 0 to 197,514 monthly organic visitors in under two years, with what actually moved it.
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
At IBM Research, we’re inventing what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.
No matter how much automation you have built, no matter how great you are at practicing Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and no matter how successfully you have transitioned from pets to cattle, you sometimes need to interact with your AWS resources at the command line. You might need to check or adjust a configuration…
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
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