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Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter capacity.
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The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
Smart TVs have upended the way we consume television content. They are luring us in with great picture quality and the promise of customized and seamless viewing, but they are also collecting and sharing our data. Find out how to make the most of your smart TV without compromising privacy.
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Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
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GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
Goodwill ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key. The Robin Hood-like group is forcing its Victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to the patients in need.
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Christopher Alexander has died
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books…
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
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Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
Hopefully in-person meet-ups will prove much easier in 2022 - but, there’s still a need for video calls, so let’s face it, they’re here to stay. This makes it really exciting to present Element Call: the world’s first decentralised voice and video conferencing app powered entirely
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Things you don't need JavaScript for
Javascript can do a lot, but it's really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let's have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript (or a backend) - from animated diagrams to dark mode.
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What chroot taught me about containers
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision concluding what we’ve always known: that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when i…
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Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect
We have analyzed telecommunication surveillance orders. Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning is completely disproportionate and must be stopped.
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Wasmtime 1.0
As of today, the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is now at 1.0! This means that all of us in the Bytecode Alliance agree that it is fully ready to use in production.
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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
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Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff
A note from Jack about the recent layoff and what went into the decision.
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GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
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Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, Fresh web pages send zero JavaScript to the client.
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Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Sheffield and University of Tartu as part of a project fu
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Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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WebKit on GitHub
On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.
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React v18.0
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Settings are not a design failure
The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a…
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Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
See why you should never use pixelation for redacting text and why it is a surefire way to get your data leaked. Learn from security researcher Dan Petro.
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.