The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) provides a set of tools and libraries for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage applications. It achieves high performance by moving all of the necessary drivers into userspace and operating in…

A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust - TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

TOKYO -- Some 80% of Tokyo metropolitan high schools have in recent years continued to require higher admission exam scores for girls than boys, despi

Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the service during the long, dull days of sheltering in place. And…

Criminals are locked in battle with Forensics firms tracking how Treasure Men, privacy wallets and gift cards are used to turn virtual hauls into hard cash

Police say they raided the building thinking they were going to find a cannabis farm.

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Nature - People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.

Since the 1970s, stagnating average earnings and rising earnings inequality in US labor markets have spurred academic research and fired policy debates. This issue has only intensified in recent decades as attention has focused on the plight of male workers…

Among the many changes merged for the 5.13 kernel is support for the LLVM
control-flow integrity (CFI) mechanism. CFI defends against exploits by
ensuring that indirect function calls have not been redirected by an
attacker. Quite a bit of work was needed…

iOS 14.5 has rendered some old apps inoperable that worked in previous versions of iOS 14. What options are available for recovering data from those apps if you can no longer launch them? Adam Engst spelunks through iPhone backups and numerous erase-restore…

A study counts blood cells and footsteps to predict a hard limit to our longevity

Twitter confirms “Twitter Blue”, which costs $2.99 per month by publicly including such In-App Purchase on the App Store For testing, I’ve become the first paying Twitter Blue customer 😅 Twitter Blue comes with Color Themes as well as custom App Icons Reader…

Spectrum costs $30 for 400Mbps on one street, $50 for half the speed on another.

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