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The NYPL has 32 libraries that were built with custodial apartments around the turn of the 20th century. Many of these apartments have been sitting in abandonment for decades. We looked inside one of them...

GPUs. FPGAs. TPUs. Good luck keeping it all straight.

Eve: Programming designed for humans.

IntroductionBenchbox is a benchmark testing utilities based on xmake and tbox.BuildPlease install xmake first: xmake $ xmakeThe Coroutine Switch Reports (...

What the team at Canopy.co learned when a DDoS attack took out our DNS provider.

Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all

I'm going to draw a line through 1930s agitprop, Ronald Reagan, methane-breathing zombie space aliens, the Mozilla logo, Barack Obama and the International Commiunist Conspiracy. It's a long walk, so please stick with me. Let's start with They Live. I've talked to a number of people recently who haven't seen They Live, and that's a real tragedy, because even though it is technically a sci-fi ...

This excerpt on "How to Get Stick-to-itiveness" comes from The Technique of Building Personal Leadership (1944) by Donald A. Laird.

As the dust settles on last week's DDoS attack, it’s time to ask—and act on—the question of “Now what?”

Instead of losing service, 200 customers get free Internet for 6 months.

While the American election season has focused much of the world’s attention directed to anything but a substantial discussion of policy, the Kubernetes networking community had other ideas. Back in July, Kubernetes 1.3 came out with support for network policies, making it the first of the container orchestrators to have such a capability built-in. Currently,…

Facebook is back in the news again. This time, it’s because of the release of their new Wedge 100 switch into the Open Compute Project (OCP). Wedge was already making headlines when Fa…

Neural networks seem good at devising crypto methods; less good at codebreaking.

Suppose we want to buy the best web camera available in the market. In real life, the process we'd follow would be to look at several product reviews describing qualities about the model we are considering purchasing. For example, if we see that the reviews mostly consists of words like "good," "great," "excellent" etc. then…

I constantly hear---mostly on Twitter---about how Apple has jumped the shark. I especially notice when the claim comes in the form of it being all Tim's

United States Air Force documentary on cartography and geography in the Space Age - a profile of the 1370th Photo Mapping Wing of the Military Airlift...

"We think we're going to get magical powers when we use other people's servers," said Casey West, Principal Technologist for Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry platform, during his OSCON Europe talk, in which he provided a humorous, and insightful look  at how the CEO sees, or doesn’t see — or honestly doesn’t care about — the vast majority of the…

Nftables is a new packet classification framework that aims to replace the existing iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables facilities. It aims to resolve a lot of limitations that exist in the venerable ip/ip6tables tools. The most notable capabilities that nftables offers over the old iptables are:

It seems like the development community is quite excited about microservices these days, but at OSCON Europe, Daniel Bryant, who is chief scientist at OpenCredo, continued to point out some of the mistakes that architects and administrators routinely make while adopting to this new “Loosely coupled service oriented architecture with bounded contexts,” as Adrian Cockcroft described microservices. Earlier…

Join Dan Kaminsky at the O’Reilly Security Hackathon to help make web security easier and more effective.

This post is for mainly for my engineering colleagues. Over the years I have had many discussions to explain the difference between Machin...

More and more people are using dashcams to record the road as they drive, and insurance companies are beginning to take the footage more seriously, too. At just $24.99, the Dash-Cam Hi-Res Car Vide…

There are plenty of applications that track to-dos. From simple applications that just store your todos to full featured multi-user…

I've been half-speed grappling with an idea for a few weeks now after finishing a spectacular book called The Evolution of Everything. For a number of