On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely…
TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 27 beta 1 is now available (downloads, hashes, release notes). The big user-facing update for FPR27 is a first pass at "sticky" Reader View. I've been paying attention more to improving TenFourFox's implementation of…
A newly granted patent (number 10,771,898) shows that future Apple devices ay use sound outside the range of human hearing to “talk” to each other. This could be useful in, among other things, finding misplaces iPhones, iPads, AirPods, Apple Watches, and…
People expect apps to be secure and their data to be protected. You may need to perform cryptographic operations to implement features such as authentication, message encryption, or to meet regulatory requirements. CryptoKit is a Swift framework that makes…
MySQL for RDS and DBaaS, in general, are very controlled environments by the vendors, meaning that there are missing things like a SUPER grant for the root user (and any user in general). This has some implications on operations, one of them being the…
Deep learning is a field with intense computational requirements, and your choice of GPU will fundamentally determine your deep learning experience. But what features are important if you want to buy a new GPU? GPU RAM, cores, tensor cores? How to make a…
At 01:02 GMT on September 2 a cross band FM amateur radio repeater with a downlink on 437.800 MHz was activated on the International Space Statio. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announcement reads: The ARISS team is pleased…
Researchers Ghose and Prevost created a deep learning algorithm which, given a silent video, can generate a realistic sounding synchronised soundtrack. They trained the neural network to classify the class of the sound to generate, and they also trained a…
Aqua’s cyber security research team, ‘Nautilus’ has found a new attack technique targeting misconfigured Docker Daemon API ports to build an image directly on the target host container infrastructure, in order to mine cryptocurrency. Further investigation…
The question of whether the Product Owner role is good or not clearly depends on a lot of factors including team maturity, organisational maturity, organisational type, organisational complexity, and the Product Owner themselves. Some thought leaders are…
The iPhone represents technical complexity and usage simplicity combination that just makes it stand apart from the rest. It’s loaded with advanced features that fill most of the needs a phone user will have.
When we are storing data, we typically assume that our storage system of choice returns that data later just as we put it in. However what guarantees do we have that this is actually the case? The case made here is the case of bitrot, the silent…
Rocket Lab recently made a successful return to flight and launched a client satellite from its Electron Rocket, but that’s not all that happened on the mission. The company also secretly launched its own satellite, called Photon, that could one day...
Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least …
Luca Mezzalira explains how to implement micro-front-ends, enabling to scale up a project with tens of developers without reducing the throughput. Micro-front-ends are a new architectural trend in the development of front-end applications. This style can…
It is important to involve the real users at the early stages of your development cycle. A strong beta testers community not only improves your product, but also provides context, pain points and ideas while increasing loyalty and engagement. This article…
curl 4.8 was released in 1998 and contained 46 command line options. curl --help would list them all. A decent set of options. When we released curl 7.72.0 a few weeks ago, it contained 232 options… and curl --help still listed all available options. What…
Philips is rolling out a new gradient LED lightstrip for your TV -- and it’s the company’s first to be individually accessible. The Philips Hue Play gradient lightstrip can sync with on-screen media for an immersive experience, according to a stateme...
For object-oriented design we follow the SOLID principles. For microservice design we propose developers follow the “IDEALS”: interface segregation, deployability (is on you), event-driven, availability over consistency, loose-coupling, and single…
The company says the change is still coming, but it hasn't said when.
I'm a programmer. I'm so sick of writing documentation for things that should be explainable in a word. When you write a function in a programming language, you get to name its parameters. Most things I can name easy enough, such as "Name" or "URL" or…
For long time I have been using a good old nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 for my display and deep learning needs. I reported a few times how to get Tensorflow running on Debian/Sid, see here and here. Later on I switched to AMD GPU in the hope that an open source…
At Buffer, we’ve been using Kubernetes since 2016. We’ve been managing our k8s (kubernetes) cluster with kops, it has about 60 nodes (on AWS), and runs about 1500 containers. Our transition to a micro-service architecture has been full of trial and…
asroute is a CLI tool for parsing traceroute output to summarize AS's traversed. Ever wondered how your packets get from home to Bhutan? I sometimes like to see it, not at the hop level, but the companies and their networks that carry my data. Or how much…
Something my colleagues know well is how little I trust online tools like jwt.io, online JSON validators or online tooling in general, but it also bleeds into comments I make online and in my blog posts, too, and I thought I'd share a little bit of a…
Recently I came across a blog post whose author claims, from the perspective of good coding practices, polymorphism is strictly superior to branching. In the post they make general statements about how branching statements lead to unreadable,…
The Namespace Utility Modules (NUM) protocol can be used to store structured data for any domain name or email address. NUM records can be stored in the DNS of the independent NUM zone (e.g. _num.example.com) or in the hosted NUM zone (a DNS-based store of…
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other…
In the early 70s, C was created at Bell Labs as a byproduct of the development of UNIX. It quickly became one of the most popular programming languages. But it was not expressive enough for Bjarne Stroustrup. And so, in 1983, as a byproduct of his Ph. D.…
The App Store is dedicated to providing a great experience for everyone. To continue offering a safe place for users to download apps and helping you successfully develop apps that are secure, high-quality, reliable, and respectful of user privacy, we’ve…
If you often find yourself flipping between two app windows on a Mac, you’ll know that it can be really frustrating. Since Mac OS X El Capitan in 2015, Mac users have had the ability to run apps in what’s called Split View. It’s easy to set up and use. In…
The built-in display brightness of your Macbook or iMac is synchronized to the external monitor. Custom brightness and contrast values are computed for each external monitor by passing the built-in brightness through a curve algorithm that is completely…
Nancy Evbuomwan explores and dives into the subject of leadership in an agile environment. By Nancy Evbuomwan
iPhones will be joined by new Watches, a HomePod, a new iPad Air, and more.
Google has its own version of this exposure tracking and notification, too.
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The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time.
The LXD team has announced the release of LXD 4.5. LXD is a container and VM manager focused on running full Linux distributions. Highlights include virtual networks through OVN, bpf system call interception, a new way to allocate PTS devices, improved…
PHP has a Just In Time compiler (JIT) since its most recent major version, PHP 8. Here's a demo of JIT's impact on PHP. The video was recorded by Zeev, a core developer of the php engine, to demonstrate the performance difference between php 7.0 and JIT…
Cloudflare recently suffered a partial outage, which lasted for 27 minutes. This outage caused 50% of traffic drop across the network. By Aditya Kulkarni
ProxySQL brings a lot of value to your MySQL infrastructures such as Caching or Connection Multiplexing but it does not come free — your database needs to go through additional processing traffic which adds some overhead. In this blog post, we’re going to…
I think it is fair to say that libcurl is a library that is very widely spread, widely used and powers a sizable share of Internet transfers. It’s age, it’s availability, it’s stability and its API contribute to it having gotten to this position. libcurl…
It’s a cybersecurity vulnerability that would have been unimaginable as recently as last year: A single California-based company, Zoom, is now the foundation for education access from elementary school up through graduate school. It has also become a…
You can now set the default branch name for newly-created repositories under your username. This setting does not impact any of your existing repositories. Existing repositories will continue to have the same default branch they have now. Organization and…
For several years, it’s been reported that Google pays billions of dollars to Apple to remain the default search engine on Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The deal ensures that iPhone, iPad, and Mac users search with Google when they use Safari. That is…
A common strategy to make any system super-performant is Caching. Almost all software products, operating at scale, have multiple layers of caches in their architectures. Caching, when done right, does wonder to the response time and is one of the main…
There are two ways to use ztext. Pick whichever method is easier for you. There are two ways to use ztext. Pick whichever method is easier for you. Ztext gives the illusion of volume by creating layers from an HTML element. There's no need to spend hours…
RTP is the dominant protocol for low latency audio and video transport. It sits at the core of many systems used in a wide array of industries, from WebRTC, to SIP (IP telephony), and from RTSP (security cameras) to RIST and SMPTE ST 2022 (broadcast TV…
I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind. How does a keyboard work? Why can’t you press an arbitrary combination of three keys at once, except on…
Until recently, and for well over the past decade, my wife and I have been nomads. Moving from the Caribbean to Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and now back home. This has meant that for many of those years, my home office basically comprised of a…
The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process…
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, which includes long-awaited variadic tuple type support and other improvements without introducing any major breaking changes. By Dylan Schiemann
Paragon Software is trying to get its NTFS driver into the Linux kernel, but has submitted it as a single dump of 27,000 lines of code, sparking complaints that it is too large to review. NTFS is the default file system for Windows XP and later. Microsoft…
The PHP team is pleased to announce the fifth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Beta 2. This continues the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 2 please visit…
Here at OkCupid, we're pretty big fans of using GraphQL. When it comes to fetching data on any of our client platforms, the abstraction that the query language provides grants the flexibility for us to fetch precisely the data that we need in each…
Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more. By Sergio De Simone
In January 2019, we set out to rewrite the critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify’s platform to offer the fastest online shopping experience possible, entirely from scratch and without downtime. The Storefront Renderer is a server…
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Twitter recently released the new Twitter API (early access) to be used by third-party developers. The new Twitter API features three new product tracks: standard, academic research, and business. The new API offers conversation threading, poll results in…
Recently we came across some firmware samples from D-Link routers that we were unable to unpack properly. Luckily we got our hands on an older, cheaper but similar device (DIR882) that we were able to analyze more closely. The goal is to find a way to…
Note: The vulnerabilities that are discussed in this post were patched quickly and properly by Google. We support responsible disclosure. The research that resulted in this post was done by me and my bughunting friend Ezequiel Pereira. You can read this…
Connect to WiFi with just a tap Stop having to tell your friends, family, and guests your WiFi password. With a WiFi Block, your guests can just tap their phone and be instantly connected to your Wifi -- no password required 1. Setup Your Wifi Block with…
Changelog of the installation v1. Release at St. Moritz with the support of the city of St. Moritz and Riverside Culture v2. Final edition created in collaboration with Shishani Vranckx and supported by IDFA DocLab and the Netherlands Film Fund. Premiere…
At the recent web.dev live event, Google V8 product manager Thomas Nattestad explained some of the proposed additions to the web to support Zoom and other video conferencing features within the web browser. By Dylan Schiemann
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It is more than 16 years since Joel Spolsky wrote How Microsoft Lost the API War. The bonds of the win32 API lock-in is broken and the free web is here to take over. The web has come a long way in the past 16 years. Richer APIs, dramatic performance…
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds. By…
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds. By…
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and…
In quarter two of 2020 Mac laptop sales rose 21% compared to quarter two of 2019, according to the Strategy Analytics research group.
“I think most of the time hackers behind the attacks do it just for fun, because they can and because it’s very simple”, — says Diachenko. Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of…
In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling. By Deepak Vohra
Some years ago I decided to install a server at home for use as a NAS (network-attached storage) in my home network, and for an Internet-facing server. I live in a place where blackouts are very infrequent (perhaps a couple per year), but occasionally the…
After analyzing the performance of several common lossless compression algorithms, Dropbox engineers have slightly modified Google's Brotli encoder to improve their engine sync performance. This reduced median latency and data transfer by more than 30%,…
The new Bootstrap 5 removes jQuery and no longer supports Internet Explorer (IE). By Vivian Hu
Despite using a FTTH internet connection since 2014, aside from the one fiber uplink, I had always used network gear with 1 Gbit/s links over regular old rj45 cat5(e) cables. I liked the simplicity and uniformity of that setup, but decided it’s time to…
In a recent apidays webinar, Mike Amundsen, trainer and author of the recent O’Reilly book “API Traffic Management 101”, presented “High Performing APIs: Architecting for Speed at Scale”. Drawing on recent research by IDC, he argued that organisations will…
When you first upgrade to iOS 14, either in beta or when it releases in the fall, you’ll be treated to some big obvious improvements. The new, more customizable home screen with widgets and the App Library will make an immediate difference in how you use…
At the Percona engineering team, we often receive requests to analyze changes in MySQL/Percona Server for MySQL behavior from one version to another, either due to regression or a bug fix (when having to point out to a customer that commit X has fixed…
With an emphasis on distributed tracing, this article discusses best practices for gaining and leveraging observability into AWS Lambda functions. By Michele Mancioppi
Have you ever played a VR game and needed a tip for beating the game... but you didn’t want to take off your headset to find that solution? Or, have you wanted to watch videos while you played your game? Or, how about wanting to immerse yourself in a
Engaging top management in a recurring retrospective approach can result in long-term value in organizations. Retrospectives can help management teams to explore how they collaborate and cooperate. They can find out whether they should change something and…
iPhone users may be able to accept credit card payments from other people without needing extra hardware in the future. According to Bloomberg, Apple has acquired a startup called Mobeewave Inc., which is behind a technology that can turn iPhones int...
Simply because it is so hard to find this resource by googling it. Here’s the official HTTP/3 logo hosted: https://github.com/httpwg/wg-materials/tree/gh-pages/badge/http3
A few weeks after becoming available for macOS, iOS, and Android, the IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit can be now installed on various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS for x86 platforms, and Ubuntu for IBM's own Z…
The Apple Watch Series 6 — which should arrive in September or October — will add blood oxygen monitoring to its features, according to a new report from DigiTimes.
Software development for new ARM-based Macs has its own set of challenges and changes for developers. InfoWorld senior writer Serdar Yegulalp joins Juliet to discuss why the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon is so seismic, how the change is affecting…
No exaggeration, unfortunately. As a disclaimer, I will add that this is a really stupid mistake and shows my lack of experience managing auto-scaling deployments. However, it all started with a question with no answer and I feel obliged to share my…
CURRYFINGER measures a vanilla request for a particular URL against requests directed to specific IP addresses with forced TLS SNI and HTTP Host headers. The tool takes a string edit distance, and emits matches according to a rough similarity metric…
Every file deserves to be treated equally High performant Vue file upload component with elegant and distinguishable previews for every file type and support for drag and drop, validations, default uploader with progress support and externally…
Proven methods to build security awareness in developers. Watch the webinar. The 5 Point Tactical Guide for Secure Developers. Get the whitepaper. New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls. Sign up for cybersecurity…
"Big integers" have landed in Javascript, at least in Firefox and Chrome. One of my favorite things to do with high precision arithmetic is to calculate digits of π. From scratch, that is, using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. …
Partial hashes broadcast in Bluetooth can be converted to phone numbers, researchers say.
