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A Jitsi feature allows an attacker to transmit user's microphone and camera in the background without their consent.

We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by...

We reverse engineered GitHub Actions cache internals to transparently route cache requests through our faster, colocated cache. This delivered up to 10x faster cache performance for some of our customers, with no code changes required and no need to maintain…

The U.S.'s push for domestic chip manufacturing is bearing fruit.

I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point ... Read more

Nature Reviews Bioengineering - On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to language...

SQLite WAL has checksums, but on corruption it drops all the data and does not raise error

Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less.

One explanation for the rise in obesity in industrialized countries is that people burn fewer calories than people in countries where obesity is rare. A major study finds that's not the case.

Today I'm discussing a trivially simple technique that I've rarely seen used in production codebases.

In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic types built into our programming language or provided…

User story As a WiX maintainer, the Open Source Maintenance Fee provides funding for ongoing maintenance tasks that would ensure the long-term sustainability of the WiX Toolset. Proposal Open Sourc...

Several major phone networks in the UK appear to be down following a major outage.

Linux Bash Script for the Paranoid Admin on a Budget - real-time monitoring and active threat response - IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector