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The Chaos Computer Congress is Europe’s leading hacker and tech community conference, taking place annualy in Hamburg, Germany between Christmas and New Year. This year was the 33rd time (hence 33C3), and as usual featured a large number of amazing talks and presentations. My personal favorites Making Technology Inclusive Through Papercraft and Sound - Introducing the Love to Code Platform, by Bunnie Huang Dissecting modern (3G/4G) cellular modems - all the way to running apps directly on the modem’s Linux OS (Blog, Slides, HN) Topics

What happens when a hard-core Mac user leaves the sterile gallery of MacOS for the drunken carnival of Windows?

A collection of information about the PagerDuty incident response process. Not only how to prepare new employees for on-call responsibilities, but also how to handle major incidents, both in preparation and after-work.

Apache Geode is a distributed, in-memory database with strong data consistency, built to support transactional applications with low latency and high concurrency needs.

One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering forNTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with nobuffer overrun...

What if you could find out what a method is doing? Using this built-in Ruby class you will be able to take a look at what's going on...

You (and your company) probably don't need machine learning. Most companies just need good data management with good regression modeling.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

From an excerpt of Kevin Kelly's recent book, The Inevitable, a list of the Seven Stages of Robot Replacement: 1. A robot/computer cannot possibly do the tasks I do. 2. [Later.] OK, it can do a lot of those tasks, but

Have you ever read a book and wondered how any human could have written something so brillia...

In my role at Spirent as a senior product manager for automation, much of my time is concerned with our traffic generator products, their APIs, the surrounding languages and operating systems, and various pieces of supporting software. However, a new

Picos are a natural way to build microservices. This post presents the results of an experiment we ran to see how the new Pico Engine performs when placed under surge loading that simulates BYU's priority registration.

One of the clearest indications of the lack of maturity in the IoT space is the inability for most devices (and ecosystems) to produce basic logging

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Luxury goods are only consumed when we've got enough. You shouldn't go shopping for a Birkin bag with your last dollar. It's easy to believe that kindness is like that. We …

This ebook explores guidelines that can help you make crucial

O'Reilly editors and web practitioners weigh in on what they hope to see in 2017.

What to watch for in distributed systems, SRE, serverless, containers and more.

From disclosure to machine learning to IoT, here are the security trends to watch in the months ahead.

The New England Patriots finished the regular season 14–2, earning the top seed in the AFC playoffs. There was never much doubt that the Pats, led by...

As the seas rise, New York City’s future is in doubt. This proposal turns it into a heritage site with a large sand barrier and towering concrete wall.