Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
Stakes Are High in Oracle v. Google, But the Public Has Already Lost
Attorneys for the Oracle and Google companies presented opening statements this week in a high-stakes copyright case about the use of application-programming interfaces, or APIs. As Oracle eagerly noted, there are potentially billions of dollars on the line; accordingly, each side has brought “...
The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too
The FBI's demand that Apple craft new software to bypass iOS's security protections has ignited a worldwide debate about a government's ability to force tech companies to sabotage their own security. One repeated question has been: will other countries, like China, demand the same powers? You don't...
25 Civil Liberties Orgs Call for Open Hearings on Section 702 Surveillance
The House Judiciary Committee has plans for a “members only” meeting next week to discuss Section 702 of the FISA Amendment Acts, the law the NSA relies on to operate its notorious PRISM surveillance program and to tap into the backbone of the Internet, also known as “upstream” collection. While we...
Vivaldi 1.2 release
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
Tor Project Statement on Jacob Appelbaum
Over the past several days, a number of people have made serious, public allegations of sexual...
Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Microsoft and Bank of America collaborate with Azure Blockchain as a Service
REDMOND, Wash., and NEW YORK — Sept. 27, 2016 — Today at Sibos, an annual conference organized by SWIFT for the financial industry, Microsoft Corp. and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced a collaboration on blockchain technology to fuel transformation of trade finance transacting. As part of this collaboration…
Four billion messages an hour: benchmarking Deepstream throughput
A realtime server for the modern web
Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
JRE 8 needs more codecache than before
How Indeed investigated and addressed high system load after Java 8 migration of its job search web app
Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road
hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE
In this post, I discuss an alternate solution; namely, running separate CPU and GPU clusters, and driving the end-to-end modeling process from Apache Spark.
Sandstorm for Work Beta: LDAP, SAML, Organization Management
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 milestone in 2017
Crystal has gone a long way since we started it over five years ago. What was once an experiment to see if it was possible to have a compiled yet Ruby-like language, is now a trending language with over 7,000 GitHub stargazers and almost 1,400 shards. Its popularity has risen considerably in the last few years, and we…
Google and Box Announce Partnership
Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productiv...
Serializable, Lockless, Distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB
To protect concurrent transactions from anomalies that can break the consistency of CockroachDB, we require an Isolation guarantee...
Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.