ElonMusk promised that he will open the source twitter algorithm. Just after few hours of the announcement of his twitter acquisition, the algorithm repo showed up on GitHub. It's still empty though. If the twitter algo is open-source this will be a huge win for free speech, privacy, and internet.
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Smart contract developers 'not really' focused on security
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Smart contract developers not really focused on security. Who knew?
Bugs cost $680m in 2021, academics say, as devs have other concerns
Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn - Microsoft Security Blog
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Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn
Microsoft has discovered several vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as Nimbuspwn, that could be chained together, allowing an attacker to elevate privileges to root on many Linux desktop endpoints. Leveraging Nimbuspwn as a vector for root access could…
Twitter adds a GitHub repository called ‘the algorithm’, then deletes it
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Twitter adds a GitHub repository called ‘the algorithm’, then deletes it
Musk wanted to make the Twitter algorithm open source.
The worst bug I've ever worked on -- randomly losing our best players
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The Worst Bug Ever—Randomly Losing Your Best Players
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How can I get an information security team to see that their over-the-top security measures are only decreasing security?
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How can I get an information security team to see that their over-the-top security measures are only decreasing security?
Summary: I worked for a small startup, that was acquired by a mega corporation. Its IT security policies are excessive, but they don't add more security, and prevent me from doing work. How do I ch...
Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports
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Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports
Oracle Java has fallen to just 34% of Java distributions in use, with Amazon rising to 22%, according to New Relic’s 2022 State of the Java Ecosystem report.
Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience
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Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter – and things went better than expected
Two years of disaster planning massively reduced recovery time objective, company says
Russian hacktivists launch DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites
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Russian hacktivists launch DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites
The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, has issued a statement about a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities.
When moving from JS to WASM is not worth it - Zaplib post mortem
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When moving from JS to WASM is not worth it - Zaplib post mortem
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride, it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...
Amazon Kickstarts Natural Language Understanding By Open-Sourcing 'MASSIVE' Speech Dataset
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Amazon Kickstarts Natural Language Understanding By Open-Sourcing 'MASSIVE' Speech Dataset
Managed C - Experimental reference-count garbage collector for GCC/Clang C
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GitHub - Frityet/ManagedC: Reference counter for C
Reference counter for C. Contribute to Frityet/ManagedC development by creating an account on GitHub.
Overview of the CMake controversy, and break down the pros and cons of the critical C++ tool.
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Can you Make it Better? Exploring the CMake Debate - Incredibuild
Let's dive into the CMake controversy, and break down the pluses and minuses of the critical C++ tool.
Rust-based Redox OS 0.7.0 Arrives with Enhanced Hardware Support - It's FOSS News
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Rust-based Redox OS 0.7.0 Arrives with Enhanced Hardware Support
While we continue to observe new releases of Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros at this time of the year, here’s something for a change.
The one we’re highlighting here is—Redox OS, which focuses on stability and security. We already covered an article…
The one we’re highlighting here is—Redox OS, which focuses on stability and security. We already covered an article…
The Code Review Pyramid
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The Code Review Pyramid
When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas important aspects (does the code change do what it is supposed to do, is it performant…
I won free load testing
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I won free load testing
Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went “well, let’s see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle”, and suddenly I was on th...
Microsoft 3D Movie Maker is now open source
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GitHub - microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker: This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released in 1995.…
This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released in 1995. This is not supported software. - microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker