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Apple’s Self Service Repair now available
Genuine Apple parts and tools can now be purchased by US customers.
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Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)
strengthening digital self-defense | research and development | providing privacy-focused goods and services
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New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
Thousands of previously unreleased records illustrate how government agencies sidestep our Fourth Amendment rights.
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Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker
Just keep it under wraps.
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The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?
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Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
Soybean oil is linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice in new research.
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AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
Today, in partnership with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the AlphaFold DB by over 200x - from nearly 1 million structures to over 200 million structures - with the potential to…
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MDN Plus
Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience.
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Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
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.
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Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
Introducing Turbopack, the Rust-based successor to Webpack. A high-performance bundler for React Server Components and TypeScript codebases.
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A database for 2022
we moved from etcd to SQLite for a simpler, more scalable database solution. Learn about Litestream, live replication, and lessons learned.
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Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerab...
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75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12.
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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
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Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”
In the past few weeks, governments around the world have renewed their efforts to restrain free expression online. In Canada, a revised "Online Streaming Act" comes as the latest in a long-running attempt to bring streaming under a restrictive regulatory regime. In the UK, a new "Online Safety Bill" seeks to censor…
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Give up GitHub: The time has come
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was…
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An update on the threat landscape
Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service provide…
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Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
Microsoft has bundled a VPN with its Edge browser, and we expect others to follow suit. But can a built-in VPN replace a full-fledged VPN service, and is it a good example to follow? We give our take.
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Deno raises $21M
Series A led by Sequoia Capital
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Apple Unveils M2
Apple today announced M2, beginning the next generation of Apple silicon designed specifically for the Mac.
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Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health
New study first to establish causal link between use of the platform and reported worsening in anxiety and depression among college students
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A CTO should be technical
Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.
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Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Instead of checking the open source code, Google makes assumptions about our use of contacts in the Voys App, with dire consequences.
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BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration
BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.
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Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mount…
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Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and most people picking up their phone to text...
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I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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D1: Our SQL database
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers