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Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix…

Training the large neural networks behind many modern AI tools requires real computational might: OpenAI’s most advanced language model GPT-3 required a million billion billions of operations to train, and cost about US $5 million in compute time. Some researchers…

Qt 6.4 is now available and comes with a lot of new modules, features, and improvements. And Web Assembly is now a fully supported platform!

by Kostas Christidis

  I. Introduction Hello! Ndeewo! Molweni! Салам! Across the world, people are coming online with smartphones, smart watches, and other sma...

I apologize for this title because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cu…

In this article I’ll share some tips and advice about HTML.

NVIDIA, Arm, and Intel jointly propose a FP8 format for standardization as an interchange format for AI and improve computational efficiency.

“Zoom Out” is such a necessity for all creative apps that it rarely even appears on the list of features — yet IDEs have nothing of the…

October 2022 Update: Atlassian to Wind Down Operations in Russia and Belarus

If Google really wants more secure extensions, why not just police the store better?

SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2), of which SHA-256 is a part, is one of the most popular hash algorithms around. A cryptographic hash, also often referred to as a “digest”, “fingerprint” or “signature”, is an almost perfectly unique string of characters that…

Gergely Orosz started a Twitter conversation asking about recommended “software engineering practices” for development teams. (I really like his rejection of the term “best practices” here: I always feel it’s …

Building Browser Extensions is the ultimate guide for how to build modern Chrome extensions in 2023 with in-depth examples and detailed tutorials.

https://buildingbrowserextensions.com. Click to read Building Browser Extensions, by Matt Frisbie, a Substack…

Posted in r/programming by u/princeps_harenae • 381 points and 365 comments

Team-level coaching isn’t enough