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31 August 2020Wired
The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time.
31 August 2020LWN.net
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…
31 August 2020Hacker News
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…
30 August 2020InfoQ - DevOps
Cloudflare recently suffered a partial outage, which lasted for 27 minutes. This outage caused 50% of traffic drop across the network. By Aditya Kulkarni
29 August 2020Percona Database Performance Blog
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…
28 August 2020Planet Mozilla
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…
28 August 2020Hacker News
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…
28 August 2020Hacker News
27 August 2020Hacker News
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…
27 August 2020