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End to end refresh of Facebook's server fleet

With people watching more than 100 million hours of video every day on Facebook, 95-plus million photos and videos being posted to Instagram every day, and 400 million people now using voice and video...

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Bitcoin ETF disapproved by SEC [pdf]

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The cruellest RollerCoaster Tycoon park created

Beverley P is stuck in a maze. She's spent the last 50 years toiling away near its entrance. Starving, thirsty and exhausted, Beverley ekes out a desperate, endless existence, alone and without hope....

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Crazy Eddie Fraud

The Crazy Eddie FraudThe Crazy Eddie fraud may appear smaller and gentler than the massive billion-dollar frauds exposed in recent times, such as Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, frauds in the subprime...

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Waymo Asks Court to Block Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project

Mr. Levandowski then installed special software that allowed him to access that repository and proceeded to download over 14,000 files, or about 9.7 gigabytes of data, according to the declaration. A...

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Rookie Doctors Will Soon Be Allowed to Work Up to 28 Hours Straight

Jonathan Kirn/Getty ImagesThe maximum workday for first-year medical residents just got substantially longer. The group that sets rules for training doctors announced Friday it will be scrapping the...

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A little-known iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers

A few years ago, backstage at a conference, I spotted a blind woman using her phone. The phone was speaking everything her finger touched on the screen, allowing her to tear through her apps. My jaw...

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Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust

(N.B. The word “fuck” appears multiple times in this post. I recommend that the reader temporarily not consider “fuck” as profanity, as it isn’t used that way here.)Not so long ago, a certain someone...

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Alphabet adds patent claim to Uber intellectual property theft lawsuit

Visitors look at a self-driving car by Google displayed at the Viva Technology event in Paris, France, July 1, 2016. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

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Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster

Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster20 Jan(updated 23 Jan) | by Francesco Siddi**Here at Blender Institute we challenge ourselves to make industry quality films while improving and...

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Preinstalled Malware Targeting Mobile Users

The Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention has recently detected a severe infection in 38 Android devices, belonging to a large telecommunications company and a multinational technology company. While...

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What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works

The NSA revelations shattered earlier assumptions that internet data was nearly impossible to intercept for meaningful surveillance, said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Washington-based...

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Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

Employers could impose hefty penalties on employees who decline to participate in genetic testing as part of workplace wellness programs if a bill approved by a U.S. House committee this week becomes...

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Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation

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Why traders should pay attention to earthquakes occuring in Japan

Earthquakes in Japan are a common thing, there are approximately 1,500 of them a year. Therefore, people are not alerted when an earthquake in Japan occurs. However, those earthquakes still have a...

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When the memory allocator works against you

Cloning mozilla-central with git-cinnabar requires a lot of memory. Actually too much memory to fit in a 32-bits address space.I hadn’t optimized for memory use in the first place. For instance,...

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Your personal guide to Software Engineering technical interviews

README.mdInterviewsYour personal guide to Software Engineering technical interviews.Maintainer - Kevin Naughton Jr.Table of ContentsOnline JudgesLive Coding PracticeData StructuresLinked ListA Linked...

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Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a...

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Join WorldCover (YC W16) as Our First Full Stack Engineer

WorldCover is looking for a Full Stack Engineer in New York City to help us fulfill our mission to protect a billion small businesses around the world with insurance against natural disasters.Over $100...

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EasyBuggy: A broken web app in order to understand behavior of bugs and vulns

README.mdEasyBuggy is a broken web application in order to understand behavior of bugs and vulnerabilities, for example, memory leak, dead lock, JVM crash, SQL injection and so on.Quick Start$ mvn...

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