This month, Let’s Encrypt is turning on new infrastructure to support revoking certificates via Certificate Revocation Lists. Despite having been largely supplanted by the Online Certificate Status Protocol for over a decade now, CRLs are gaining new life with recent browser updates. By collecting and summarizing CRLs…
An increasing number of the machine learning (ML) models we build at Apple each year are either partly or fully adopting the Transformer…
All our apps (Proton Mail, Proton Drive, etc) are open source and independently audited. Anyone can inspect our software and confirm our encryption works.
The Council of the European Union this week adopted new language for regulations governing internet systems that may put the security of your browser at greater risk.The new language affects the EU’s electronic identification, authentication and trust services (eIDAS) rules, which are supposed to...
Techniques for defining a declarative GUI in C++
Comparing performances I decided to compare the performances of the OpenSource Linux Userspace Emulator that allows you to run x86/x86_64 apps on ARM linux. There are QEMU-user, FEX-emu and Box86/Box64. How to bench Linux userspace emulator Test will consist of the bench I already used a couple of time, and that can…
Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate the DebianDay, and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations. You can join the party or organise something yourselves too! Today is also an...
We announced in October that passkey support was available in Chrome Canary. Today, we are pleased to announce that passkey support is now ...
U.S. government concerns about great disparities in housing conditions are at least 100 years old. For the first 50 years of this period, U.S. housing crises were widely considered to stem from the failure of the construction industry to adopt new technology -- in particular, factory production methods. The…
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. We were made aware of issues with login at 18:12 UTC / 13:12 ET and started implementing fixes to critical systems at 18:39 UTC / 13:39 ET. This outage affected our users and we apologize for the…
What can IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2021 tell us about the changing nature of the network?
Earlier this month, we migrated from offset pagination to cursor-based pagination for our API. In this journal, we walk through the basics of these methods of pagination and why we’re making this switch.
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
Researchers identify a number of key biomarkers in Hikikomori patients and show their promise for predicting the severity of the condition
Today we are announcing the preview release of Queryable Encryption which allows customers to encrypt sensitive data from the client side, store it as fully randomized encrypted data on the database server side, and run expressive queries on the encrypted data. Learn more.
Strategy is the madness towards the destination, not the destination itself.
Uncover the power of runbooks for IT operations and DevOps. Learn what they are and how to create them. Improve workflows and speed up incident response.
<p>A deep dive into the recent incident that affected matchmaking and the custom games browser in Halo: MCC on April 1.</p>
In this article, we introduce you to typeclasses in Haskell: what they are, how they can be used, and how to define your own instances of typeclasses.
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Here's a look at the latest Mesa utilities, helpers & best practices for writing Vulkan drivers.
There is a better way to explore and analyze time-series data with PostgreSQL: hyperfunctions. Learn how to ease your workload with faster and simpler data.
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
We explore our journey of developing a unified platform enabling real-time, event-driven architectures.
Comparison confirms that SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment & technologies. Our analysis also uncovered many similarities between the SMIC 7nm and the TSMC 7nm, which are available in our comparison brief.
When does “preservation” in emulation become impractical?
Go generics are a new way to improve performance in golang. Let’s see what effect generics had on Google’s B-tree implementation.
