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Yesterday, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube announced their intent to begin collaborating on the removal of terrorist propaganda across their services. CDT is deeply concerned that this joint project will create a precedent for cross-site censorship and will become a target for governments and private actors seeking to suppress speech across the web. Governments have […]

Another company using whitebox instead of costly Internet edge routers.

When an ISP or Autonomous System (AS) such as Redpill Linpro acquires a block of globally unique IP addresses (called a prefix), it must advertise it to the global Internet routing table. This advertisement causes all other ASes in the world to find out that the new prefix is now...

2016 saw the network take major advances toward a software-defined future, with SDN and NFV being the acronyms on everyone's tongues. 2017 is about taking the next steps in the long-going synthesis of networks and computing. Here are four things we see

As is normal in engineering endeavors, we forget the purpose or the problem we are trying to solve and get mired in the details of the process or the tool.

We put OLED's true blacks and minimal blur to the test. Is OLED ready for your home?

The conference room computer is now apparently a billion-dollar business.

The first-ever Smart Contracts Symposium brought some of the world's foremost blockchain experts together in one room to demystify the technology and discuss all of the ways smart contracts will change the way we work.

The urban grid of Salt Lake City, Utah is designed to tell you exactly where you are in relation to Temple Square, one of the holiest sites for Mormons. Addresses can read like sets of coordinates. “300 South 2100 East,” for example, means three blocks south and 21 blocks east of Temple Square. But the most striking

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology. During the Q&A (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a “quantified world” — and more opportunities for government surveillance. “If you are being tracked, […]

Throughout 2016, the community around the open source Kubernetes container orchestration tool has continued to grow at a pace that surprised many. “Probably the biggest defining moment for the Kubernetes community right now is that other communities are communities of vendors more so than Kubernetes. I think Kubernetes is more a community of developers, operators, and…

Responding to partner and user concerns over bundling, Docker is releasing one of its core container components, the containerd runtime engine, as an independent open source project, and is looking for a "neutral" third-party foundation to manage the effort. "As the scope of the platform expands, there is a lot of demand both from our customers…

Proofpoint has identified a new version of DNSChanger EK, a strain of malware that changes your DNS settings so that the ads on the websites you browse are replaced with other ads that benefit the …

It is possible to deliver amazing service without being servile. Omotenashi is the Japanese word for treating people the way you'd want to be treated, for a posture of customer service that bu…

Millions of little things go wrong in your body every minute. Your brain processes the data in a noisy manner. Even trained mathematicians can’t think logically most of the time. In our economy, most companies fail within a decade. Most products are flawed. Over a million people die every year in car accidents. We have … Continue reading How to build robust systems

This post explores the JVM architecture, what it is, how it operates, why it's useful, and presents a helpful diagram that highlights major JVM functionalities.

Voxpupuli a collective of Puppet module, tooling, and documentation authors. A team that adopts and maintains Puppet related mod

Some new proposed protocols will encrypt the transport layer headers. Encryption is good, so more encryption must be better, right? Unfortunately there's going to be a huge hidden cost that'll be paid by anyone troubleshooting networking problems.

How a programming language can be an idea.

Here is a simple fact: the free lunch is over. CPUs aren’t getting any faster but rather they are getting wider. Nowadays we can find multiple execution cores within one chip with shared memory or virtual cores sharing a single physical execution core however CPU’s aren’t doubling in speed. What this means is that concurrency is inevitable and we have to adapt to this new programming landscape in order to create event-driven, scalable, resilient and (hence) responsive programs. In this blog we are going to introduce the Actor Model and create a Crawl Server using Akka and Scala to piece everything together.