[Rust]
Announcing Rust 1.51.0
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.51.0. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.51.0 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't

[.NET]
Loop alignment in .NET 6
When writing a software, developers try their best to maximize the performance they can get from the code they have baked into the product. Often, there are various tools available to the developers to find that last change they can squeeze into their code to make their software run faster. The

[Google Research]
Constructing Transformers For Longer Sequences with Sparse Attention Methods
Posted by Avinava Dubey, Research Scientist, Google Research Natural language processing NLP models based on Transformers, such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, or GPT3, are successful for a wide variety of tasks and a mainstay of modern NLP research. The versatility and robustness of Transformers are the

[Cloudflare]
Introducing Super Bot Fight Mode
Beginning immediately, any Cloudflare user with a Pro or Business site can take new action against bots. We’ve added advanced features in the dashboard and some exciting updates to analytics.

[Cloudflare]
Mitigating Bot Attacks against Cloudflare
The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia.

[Cloudflare]
Announcing API Abuse Detection
Today, we are announcing early access to API Abuse Detection. This technology will identify, secure, and protect API endpoints with unsupervised learning.

[Deezer]
Women’s Voices — A Product Design Story
Women’s Voices — A Product Design StoryThis post is part of a series about the women behind ‘Women’s Voices’, an in-app story created by Deezer for International Women’s Day:Part. 1: Women’s Voices — A Product StoryPart. 2: Women’s Voices — A Brand StoryPart. 3: Women’s Voices — A Data StoryMy

[HubSpot]
HubSpot Partner Spotlight: Miles Ukaoma, Head of Growth Driven Design, Lean Labs
Some of the best perspectives on HubSpot's product come from those who use it every day. In this interview series, we profile HubSpot partners, providers, and customers, and ask their thoughts on what our product team should keep in mind while solving for them, and where the future of the

[New York Times]
Meeting… Vicki Crosson, Software Engineer at The New York Times
Celebrating Women’s History MonthThis March, we are featuring colleagues from across The New York Times in a special Women’s History Month series of ‘Meeting’.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyWhat are your pronouns?She/HerWhat is your job title and what does it mean?My job title is software

[Cloudflare]
Keyless SSL now supports FIPS 140-2 L3 hardware security module (HSM) offerings from all major cloud providers
Private encryption keys stored in hardware security module offerings from all major cloud providers can now be used to secure HTTPS connections at Cloudflare’s global edge.

[Cloudflare]
Heartbleed Revisited
TLS key compromise is a risk for all web services. Taking lessons from Heartbleed, Cloudflare offers the latest features that make key compromise less of a risk.

[Cloudflare]
Introducing: Advanced Certificate Manager
Today, we are excited to announce that dedicated certs are getting an upgrade

[Android]
#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - March edition
Posted by Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager For the March edition of #AndroidDevJourney, we’re highlighting Android developers from all over the world with many different experiences. Early this year, we launched the #AndroidDevJourney series to highlight our community on our

[Facebook]
Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific region and North America
We are announcing two vital new subsea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America. These will be the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and will increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent. We are committed to bringing more people

[Cloudflare]
A new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
Today we are announcing a new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall for all Cloudflare paid zone customers.

[New York Times]
Meeting… Véronique Brossier, Lead Software Engineer at The New York Times
Celebrating Women’s History MonthThis March, we are featuring colleagues from across The New York Times in a special Women’s History Month series of ‘Meeting’.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyWhat are your pronouns?She/HerWhat is your job title and what does it mean?I am a Lead Software

[Kotlin]
Kotlin 1.5.0-M2 Released – Ensure Smooth Migration to Kotlin 1.5.0
Kotlin 1.5.0-M2 is the last milestone release for Kotlin 1.5.0, which is coming this spring. So this is the last chance to make sure that your projects will successfully work with Kotlin 1.5.0. Install 1.5.0-M2 If you migrate your projects now, you can save yourself time and energy in the future,

[Docker]
DockerCon LIVE 2021 Registration is Now Open
We’re excited to announce that registration for DockerCon LIVE 2021 is now officially open! Taking place on Thursday, May 27th, the one day virtual event brings together all of the application development technology, skills, tools and people to help you build, share and run applications faster

[Cloudflare]
Cloudflare’s WAF is recognized as customers’ choice for 2021
Cloudflare has been recognised as Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for WAF vendor in 2021 by Gartner.

[Cloudflare]
Build Zero Trust rules with managed devices
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare Access to build rules that only allow users to connect to applications from a device that your enterprise manages.

[Cloudflare]
Inside Cloudflare: Preventing Account Takeovers
Throughout the day, Cloudflare has published blog posts on products created to secure our customers from credential stuffing bots, detect users with compromised credentials, and block users from proxy services. But what do we do inside Cloudflare to prevent account takeovers on our own applications?