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More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue
Posted by Matt Linton, Senior Security Engineer and Pat Parseghian, Technical Program Manager Yesterday, Google’s Project Zero team posted...
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Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People
In order to protect civil liberties without hampering innovation, lawmakers should require public input before surveillance tools are deployed and ensure that facial recognition databases are purged of data related to law-abiding people.
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Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly
TL;DR: Firefox Nightly now supports encrypting the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, which helps prevent attackers on your network from learning your browsing history. You can enable encrypted SNI ...
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
Social isolation can be as unhealthy as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and loneliness affects nearly half of Americans—but few organizations are addressing this critical psychosocial risk factor. Here are three strategies, shared by leading organizations, to address the epidemic.
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Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Fonts for Complex Data
H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.
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New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
We’re introducing our third-generation family of hardware products made by Google, including Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub.
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Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them
Even when you try to do good, you can end up doing accidental harm. But there are ways you can minimise the risks.
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Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals
In this article I shall discuss several game programming techniques, all revolving around a central theme: the sine and cosine functions. This article will explain sine, cosine, vectors, atan2, and some useful special effects such as how to make homing missiles and how bitmap rotation works. I shall start with the…
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Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
Google Cloud offers our best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system.
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Introducing Ghost 2.0
A powerful new editor, multi-language support, custom homepages, dynamic routes, custom structures and much more!
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A dive into the making of a 64K Intro
This article is also available in Russian, courtesy of Vlad Brown: Погружение в создание Immersion At last. Last December, we finally finished it. This video here is our last production, a 4 minute animation called “Immersion”. To be more precise, it’s a capture of what is usually referred to as a 64k intro. But more…
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Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
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AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our…
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Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law
Speaking on CBS This Morning today with Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell and John Dickerson, Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff called for a national
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Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
Using the web today, you are a target. And because of the rampant tracking across websites, each time you use the internet, you become an easier target. Tor Browser can help.
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For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say
The belief that interests arrive fully formed and must simply be “found” can lead people to limit their pursuit of new fields and give up when they encounter challenges, according to a new Stanford study.
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On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
Apple badly needs to update the Mac lineup both now, and more consistently in the future.