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We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 5.0, containing hundreds
of new features and bug fixes!

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with
unique topic-based threading that is ideal for
both live and asynchronous conversations. Fortune…

In some TurboTax ads, "almost every word spoken is the word 'free.'"

GraphQL support is now in general availability on the Supabase platform via our open source PostgreSQL extension, pg_graphql (beta).

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 100 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 100 is also pr...

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The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by

Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.

The vast tenant screening industry is subject to less regulation than credit scoring agencies, even though experts warn that algorithms could introduce racial or other illegal biases that can prevent people from getting housing.

A new book argues for a supercharged approach to net zero

In mid-February, we reported on the plan to
unite the two kernel devices that provide random numbers;
/dev/urandom was to effectively just be another way to access the
random numbers provided by /dev/random. That change made it as
far as the mainline during…

Follow a dedicated team of museum professionals and others as they race to preserve an important collection in record time.

Text for H.R.4521 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021

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