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Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
With mere days left before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House, President Barack Obama’s administration just finalized rules to make it easier for the nation’s intelligence agencies to...
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80.80.80.80 – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. Every time you visit a website or send an email, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Freenom World ensures these lookups are done...
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The Sound of Silence
I recently heard one of the more interesting insights about Silicon Valley I'd heard in a while. It explained something I’d wondered about for years.But I can't tell you what it was.There's too much...
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Feeling safer online with Firefox
The latest privacy and security improvements in Firefox [This post originally appeared on Medium] Firefox is the only browser that answers only to you, our users; so all of us who work on Firefox spend...
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WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
A security backdoor that can be used to allow Facebook and others to intercept and read encrypted messages has been found within its WhatsApp messaging service.Facebook claims that no one can intercept...
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GitHub is down
How people build software · GitHubSkip to contentMillions of developers use GitHub to build personal projects, support their businesses, and work together on open source technologies.Welcome home,...
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Lasers activate killer instinct in mice
Martin Harvey/GettyPredatory animals attack and kill their food all the time — but the brain circuits that control such behaviours remain unknown.Researchers have found a switch that seems to turn on a...
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Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins
Tessa Quax/David Prangishvili/Gerard Pehau-Arnaudet/Jean-Marc PanaudProkaryotes use CRISPR–Cas to fight off viruses such as the one that formed this structure on a cell.Francisco Mojica was not the...
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QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler
README.mdDescriptionQMASM fills a gap in the software ecosystem for D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computers by shielding the programmer from having to know system-specific hardware details while still...
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Major Service Outage at GitHub
App Server Availability95.5017%Mean Web Response Time213msMean API Response Time49ms98th Perc. Web Response Time817msPages Builds Failure Rate0.5397%Exception Percentage0.0006%Mean Hook Delivery...
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Kdenlive 16.12.1 released with Windows version
We are proud to announce the first maintenance release for the 16.12 cycle. Besides the usual bugfixes and usability improvements this release also marks the official release of the Windows...
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TruffleRuby Status
[jruby] TruffleRuby Status, start of 2017Chris Seatonchris at chrisseaton.comSat Jan 14 20:39:03 JST 2017Hello all, This year has been a real turning point for JRuby+Truffle as we continue to progress...
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Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden
On January 13, 2017, the Pardon Snowden campaign delivered more than 1 million signatures to the White House, from people asking President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden. This letter, from the heads of...
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There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
Today, the Guardian published a story falsely claiming that WhatsApp's end to end encryption contains a "backdoor."BackgroundWhatsApp's encryption uses Signal Protocol, asdetailed in their technical...
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IBM's “Think” Motto in Chinese
« previous post | next post» Photograph taken by Hervé Guérin in the main lobby of IBM France:First we have to determine what IBM means by its famous slogan. Here are some of the many meanings of...
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US appeals court revives antitrust lawsuit against Apple
The Apple logo is seen on the facade of the new Apple Store in Paris, France, January 5, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?
Ask HN: How do you deal with cold fingertips when you code?28 points by Filthy_casual2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 38 comments | favoriteI developed this effect a few years ago, but it didn't...
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CPU of the Day: IBM Micro/370 – True Mainframe on a chip (2013)
IBM System/370 – 1970IBM introduced the 12.5MHz cabinet sized System/370 in June 1970 as an evolution of the System/360 from 1964. These systems formed the entire base of IBM’s mainframe business....
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A Meeting of the Fern Society
After failing to save my dying fern, I decided to look for help among experts.Fern specimens.Last winter, I had a moment of crisis after failing to keep my Green Clubfoot fern alive, despite...
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Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi
While there was a brief hiatus in the development of the open firmware for Raspberry Pi, we can now boot Linux straight from bootcode.bin (note, this does require an initrd built in with zImage as...
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