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Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
Dive into Backblaze's analysis of storage server performance, exploring Drive Stats, Storage Pods, and insights on drive failure rates since 2009.
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ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
The finding also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC
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Arvind has died
Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and leading scholar in computer architecture and programming languages, has died at 77. He transformed research in computer architectures and parallel computing, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
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SSH Remoting
From the Zed Blog: Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.
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The V8 Sandbox
V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.
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CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Guest Post Every once in a while I get a question, either privately or in a department meeting, regarding CUNYFirst. Here is what I ...
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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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Entrust Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team Update (09/10/2024): In support of more closely aligning Chrome’s planned compliance ...
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An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post. He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach.
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Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5) is here.
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
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The forgotten war on beepers
30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens, and also:
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App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
Discover why native apps are becoming obsolete in today's web-first world. Learn how web apps, including web games, are revolutionizing industries and how platforms like Rogue Engine are leading the charge.
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Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission
A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.
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Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'
CU Boulder Classics scholars identify previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.
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We hacked Google A.I.
Bard IDOR, a GraphQL directive-overloading DoS that hung Google's backend for 109 seconds, and Workspace data exfiltration via markdown images.
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How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.
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Making EC2 boot time faster
It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
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A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.
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Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
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Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. AWS has continuously expanded its services to support virtually any cloud workload. It now offers over 200 fully featured services for…
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The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Billion Row Challenge, taking a Parallel Java Streams aggregation from 71 seconds down to 1.7 with SIMD and tuning.
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Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
Each of us individually is the accumulated product of thousands of generations that have come before us in an unbroken line. Our culture and technology today are also the result of thousands of years of accumulated and remixed cultural knowledge.
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Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment. They expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in…
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Using SQLite as storage for web server static content
Why OpenRun uses a SQLite database instead of the local file system for static files.