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The problem of fake news and bad sites trying to game the system is an industry-wide problem — companies should share data and best practices in the effort to combat it.

More by Mike88 Pitch your Startup, App or Hardware or post a Startup Event or Startup Job Ed: Really interesting product which could be described as the love child of a Router/Firewall and an Personal Security Application Server with failover and security features that can cost tens of thousands from Cisco. They say the street →

Evolving storage is hard. Can we make it easier?

Deeper neural nets often yield harder optimization problems.

This paper introduces the concept of skin-associated lifestyle chemistries found on personal belongings as a form of trace evidence. We propose a mass spectrometry-based approach to illuminate chemical traces recovered from personal objects. Using a chemical composite recovered from a swab of a phone, as a representative personal belonging, we can provide insights into personal lifestyle profile by predicting the kind of beauty product the individual uses, the food he/she eats, the medications he/she takes, or the places he/she has been. Therefore, the chemical interpretation of traces recovered from objects found on a crime scene can help a criminal investigator to learn about the lifestyle of the individual who used or touched these objects.

Coauthor: Tim Crofts

At BBC Future’s World-Changing Ideas Summit, ecologist Emma Johnston explained how our desire to conquer the ocean is putting its wildlife – and ourselves – in danger

Regular expressions are the standard for string processing, but did you know you can often get better text untangling with Pynini's finite-state transducers?

Mike McGarr and Andrew Spyker explain the potential containers have to help Netflix create a more productive development experience while simultaneously deepening its control over resource management.

Here are 7 operating systems for IoT devices that are open source and used to power a wide range of smart devices from wearables to driverless cars.

This post series aims to clarify the different operations you could do with a network socket and the verbs to use when talking about them.

Fast, simple Service registry for Client-side service discovery in microservices system - GitHub - lehoangduc/node-registrify: Fast, simple Service registry for Client-side service discovery in mic...

IETF hopes to simplify multivendor routing admin

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

In 1995, Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco wrote a piece for The New York Review of Books on fascism.1 As part of the article, Eco listed 14 features of what he called Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism. He began t

The original contributor to this article was David Yu, Distributed Systems Engineer at Optimizely....

Today, I’m presenting this topic (PKI automation & rotation) at Defragcon  so I wanted to share this background more broadly as a companion for that presentation.  I know this is a long post &#…

by Jean-Louis Gassée

Licenses are valuable shared resources. What might we do to support these shared resources?

If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to ...

How to choose an operating system for your computer and how to run it there.

There is continued curiosity in how monitoring tools will advance in their capabilities to take advantage of all the application and infrastructure data that is collected, used and stored. In today’s episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, New Relic chief product officer Jim Gochee highlighted what developers and enterprises alike can expect in their progress toward…