Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Useful investigation for those who want to better understand the debates around palm oil production and the symptoms of a much larger problem.
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.
As consumer devices and internet speeds become faster, websites become larger and more complex. Is website performance getting worse overall?
MIT neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit critical for learning to make decisions that require evaluating the cost or reward of an action. They showed this circuit is negatively affected by aging and in Huntington’s disease.
Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in … Continue reading…
A major update to Logic Pro X includes a professional version of Live Loops, a completely redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools.
In response to popular demand, Microsoft announced a new feature of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2)—GPU acceleration—at the Build conference in May 2020. This feature opens the gate for many…
We are looking for feedback on the Temporal proposal to improve date & time handling in JavaScript.
Point and click your way to a fully-populated, custom board from SparkFun.
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Generics and Compile-Time in Rust" here.
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
Today we’re introducing Pebble, a RocksDB-inspired and RocksDB compatible key-value store written in Go that brings greater stability to CockroachDB.
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
Today, January 10, 2020, the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation released the fact-finding report it commissioned to help the Institute understand the origins, nature, and extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to MIT and learn from them. The questions and answers below provide context.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Journalists in Washington, D.C., have long been accused of living in a “Beltway bubble,” isolated from the broader public, talking too much…
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
2020 has been a very long year. What better way to end it than with a major release! Today, we released GTK 4.0. GTK 4.0 is the result of a lot of hard work by a small team of dedicated developers. We will have a separate post to go over the statistics, but the short...
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
