San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2013 Pioneer Awards: late digital rights activist Aaron Swartz, international access to knowledge advocate James Love, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras – the journalists behind the...
Want to know more detail about what data is in the 2012 Common Crawl corpus without running a job? Now you can thanks to Sebastian Spiegler!
At the heart of Edward Snowden's decision to expose the NSA's massive phone and Internet spying programs was a fundamental belief in the people's right-to-know. "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them," he …
Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three: Beta: For testing feature branches on rea…
Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
At Google, we're always working to make the web faster. The SPDY protocol , which is now the foundation of the upcoming HTTP 2.0 protocol, i...
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This release includes massive enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude. See the full list of enhancements , or watch Joe Doliner ( @jdoliner ), an engineer at RethinkDB, talk about the 1.9 release in this two-minute video:
Malware code can be very small, and the impact can be very severe! In our daily tasks we find a lot of web-based malware that…
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
Today, we’re happy to announce that we will be accepting Bitcoin donations through our website. You can use them to make one-time donations, set up monthly donations or get an EFF membership (which includes awesome membership swag like EFF hats and digital freedom t-shirts).While we are accepting...
Moved to: https://capnproto.org/news/2013-09-04-capnproto-0.3-python-tools-features.html (GitHub Pages doesn't support 301 redirects :(.)
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system from Microsoft Research. It augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience. Read the CHI 2013 Best-Paper: IllumiRoom: Peripheral Projected Illusions for Interactive Experiences (7.6…
