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Security things in Linux v4.3
When I gave my State of the Kernel Self-Protection Project presentation at the 2016 Linux Security Summit, I included some slides covering some quick bullet points on things I found of interest in...
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Only Select Developers Can Publish Google Daydream Apps Until 2017
Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017.See Also:Google Daydream SDK Launches...
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TypeScript Seals My Penchant for JavaScript
By Frank Garcia, CEO and Founder of Cycligent and Improvement InteractiveMy life as a professional programmer started off in C. I have written in Basic, Pascal, Python, C++, C#, VB, VB .NET, Java and...
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Chad Rigetti on Building Quantum Computers [video]
When Chad participated in YC he'd yet to build a qubit - the fundamental building block of a quantum computer - and didn't know how he was going to do it. Two years later he and a team of 35 people...
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Announcing Rust 1.12
The Rust team is happy to announce the latest version of Rust, 1.12. Rust is a systems programming language with the slogan “fast, reliable, productive: pick three.”As always, you can install Rust 1.12...
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The Alexa Prize
The way humans interact with machines is at an inflection point and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation. Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo,...
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Algebraic Patterns – Monoid Morphism
Posted on August 10, 2016\[ \newcommand\emptyList{\texttt{[]}} \newcommand\doubleplus{\kern0.8ex\texttt{++}\kern0.8ex} \newcommand\composition{\kern0.8ex\texttt{<>}\kern0.8ex}...
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Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent
Second ChancesI might have given up on myself, but Mrs. Harris refused to give up on me. When she found out that I didn’t get into Head-Royce, she went to work on a back-up plan. Maybe she knew what...
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Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge
Crooks who deploy skimming devices made to steal payment card details from fuel station pumps don’t just target filling stations at random: They tend to focus on those that neglect to deploy various...
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Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way
PrologueAt JustWatch, we’re collecting and aggregating millions of different streaming offers from all kinds of Video on Demand providers (such as Netflix or Amazon Instant Video) on our platform....
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The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google
sep 21 Google AlloGoogle Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat. And the more you use it, the more it improves over time.
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Goldman's Libya Salesman Was a Little Too Good
I used to sell equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs, which puts me in fascinating company. For instance there is Youssef Kabbaj, a London-based equity derivatives salesman who, in 2008, was described...
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DNS-over-HTTPS
IntroductionTraditional DNS queries and responses are sent over UDP or TCP without encryption. This is vulnerable to eavesdropping and spoofing (including DNS-based Internet filtering). Responses from...
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch online, the images you share, the music you listen to, even...
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Tax authorities in Denmark buy 'Panama Papers' evidence
Tax authorities in Denmark have paid 805,000 euros ($903,000) for evidence of tax evasion by its citizens in the so-called 'Panama Papers.' About 600 people could be implicated. Denmark's tax...
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Now it’s exploding Samsung washing machines
A photo of one of the affected Samsung washing machines, which exploded and was listed in the federal class action lawsuit filed against the company in August.One Georgia mom was pulling clothes from...
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Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Our peers in the technical community have asked about the infrastructure that helped bring Pokémon GO to life for millions of players. Niantic and the Google Cloud teams put together this post to...
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Hard Tech Startups
Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation, and we’ve funded many...
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