GitGuardian has been scanning every single public commit made on GitHub for secrets since 2017, now we are releasing our findings in the most comprehensive study on secrets sprawl ever conducted.

Today, the Git project released new versions to address CVE-2021-21300: a security vulnerability in the delayed checkout mechanism used by Git LFS during git clone operations affecting versions 2.15 and newer.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Don’t panic: Fewer than 0.001% of sessions compromised through flaw that couldn’t be maliciously triggered

Posted in r/programming by u/iamkeyur • 150 points and 15 comments

We have a major incident on SBG2. The fire declared in the building. Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire in SBG2. The whole site has been isolated which impacts all services in SGB1-4. We recommend to activate your Disaster…

Source code: https://github.com/uvipen/Contra-PPO-pytorch

Part 1 of a series on the New York Times, in which I take a close look at how (and when) the New York Times tests multiple headlines for a single article.

I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on Tik Tok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains.

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code - pyroscope/storage-design.md at main · pyroscope-io/pyroscope

Posted in r/programming by u/larikang • 102 points and 21 comments

An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time.

Posted in r/programming by u/cdr420 • 1,232 points and 142 comments

SQLite developers often prefer to work on database internals. For an external observer nothing really changes. 2020 was a pleasant exception - SQLite received a bunch of nice features for ordinary users, such as generated columns, UPDATE FROM and fantastic…

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What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?

Microsoft-owned Github pulls down proof-of-concept code posted by researcher.

Posted in r/programming by u/azhenley • 175 points and 12 comments

100+ open-source clones of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Whatsapp, Youtube etc. See source code, demo links, tech stack, github stars. - GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security b...