Florian Larysch and Bram Moolenaar discovered that vim, an enhanced vi editor, does not properly validate values for the the filetype, syntax and keymap options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline…

Generate or convert random bytes into passphrases in Node and the browser. - diracdeltas/niceware

Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social…

Update at 2:32pm PST / 5:32pm EST: Firefox released a fix for this a few minutes ago. Update to Firefox 50.0.2 now to patch this vulnerability. Tor have also released a fix with version 6.0.7 of their browser.There is also a Thunderbird fix out, version 45.5.1.…

Квадро-самолет Мурена во время тестовых полетов UAV Challenge – это ежегодное мероприятие, направленное на расширение возможностей БЛА и, по совместительству...

地震時にシェルターになるベッド……… https://t.co/FVgp7MJ76O

Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly

A Development Manager has a number of responsibilities, but the primary one is to get a product out the door. Filling this role requires a large skill set and this article discusses what skills are needed, and not needed, to be an effective Development Manager.

The Rust compiler is written in Rust. This is overall a pretty common practice in compiler
development. This usually means that the process of building the compiler involves downloading a
(typically …

Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well…

Editor's note: Today’s post is by Bernard Van De Walle, Kubernetes Lead Engineer, at Aporeto, showing how they took a new approach to the Ku...

Run multiple, communicating C, C++, Go and Node.js programs in-parallel in unmodified browsers including LaTeX, GNU Make, Go HTTP servers, and POSIX shell scripts.

DARPA has awarded LiquidPiston Inc. $2.5 million to continue development of a new, patented, high-efficiency, lighter-weight rotary engine. LiquidPiston, a

When bottleneck buffers are large, loss-based congestion control keeps them full,
causing bufferbloat. When bottleneck buffers are small, loss-based congestion control
misinterprets loss as a signal of congestion, leading to low throughput. Fixing these
...

Things Zach Holman said.