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Ruby 2.4 series | CSV input with unescaped double quotes can now be parsed in Ruby 2.4 using liberal_parsing option

Scriptless exploit bypasses state-of-the-art protections baked into the OS.

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Security can be easily overlooked when building a product, especially when working with an outsourced engineering team. You want to trust them, so you give them access to your servers. But then you discover fraudulent activity, and, well, you start to […]

For some time I have argued that encryption is a security versus security issue. Given our reliance on cyber, that is, our increasing intertwining of the physical world with network controls, I

Software evolves by natural selection, not by intelligent design. It is a massive trial-and-error process. There are many thousands of programmers working every day to build new things in the hope of replacing the old… From time to time, you will hear about a new fantastic piece of computer science. For example, right now deep … Continue reading Software evolves by natural selection

In 2000, the BBC broadcast an hour-long documentary called Five Steps to Tyranny, a look at how ordinary people can do monstrous things in the presence of authority. Horrific things happen in the world we live in. We

fdupes is a Linux utility for identifying or deleting duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognize duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison.

Airline chief Wille Walsh furious about not being told of demolition – and about fact he will ‘end up paying for the destruction’

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Randomness, our dependence on entropy for security and privacy, and rating entropy sources for more effective encryption.

The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Safeguarding against new privacy risks.

Speaking before members of Congress, the internet pioneer made clear the dangers of the internet of things.

Don't be fooled by reports of huge spending increases on as-a-service software. Five years after Marc Andreessen famously declared that software is eating the world, the reality paints a more nuanced picture. While spending on applications has recently increased, CIOs are focused on constraining it. Despite the increasing importance of "digital transformation," enterprises are not hiring…

Initially developed by a team of SoundCloud engineers including Julius Volz and Brian Brazil, Prometheus has become one of the de-facto software for a monitoring microservices-based architectures. On this new episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Weaveworks Chief Operating Officer Mathew Lodge discusses how Weaveworks new multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service project, Weavecortex, aims to change how developers…

What are they doing with the data?

Red Hat is targeting $5 billion in revenue for itself, but it is enabling other companies to make much more than that using its products.

Interactive emails are the technical breakthrough you can’t afford not to know about.

Sculpture by Richard Ankrom, installations, sculpture, assemblage

Tidying up the artefacts of the 90s should make things more secure and efficient

Bits of Freedom research discovers unsavoury continental back-door preferences

Reactions are a way for people to more easily express themselves on Facebook. As we began building the feature, we wanted to provide a high-quality experience that felt fun at every step, including how the Reactions were displayed, how they moved on the screen when people interacted with them, and how they were dismissed. We [...]Read More...

Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social…

When you’re browsing sites like Netflix or Amazon, you get recommendations on what to watch or buy next. This is actually a big deal, and…

Setting up development environments has always been a huge pain for software teams. Not only is it time-consuming, but it’s also one of the…