Famously, engineers tend to make wrong assumptions about a lot of things: Names and time are two well-known examples. Maps are a rich source of edge cases. Especially when you start dealing with gl…

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What underlies learning in the brain might be actually simpler than previously thought despite the brain being one of the most complex objects in the known universe. A collaboration of Scientists led by the EPFL Blue Brain Project has achieved a major advance…

RISC-V Announces First New Specifications of 2022, Adding to 16 Ratified in 2021 Efficient Trace, Supervisor Binary Interface, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, and Zmmul Multiply-Only Extension Accelerate Embedded- and Large-System DesignSix. Additional…

Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers.

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The Microsoft FOSS Fund has chosen GNOME as winner of 20th funding round for "From low-level libs over the window manager to end user applications the GNOME project is an essential part of many graphical Linux devices." They also noted Ubuntu as "the first…

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A new Trail of Bits research report examines unintended centralities in distributed ledgers Blockchains can help push the boundaries of current technology in useful ways. However, to make good risk decisions involving exciting and innovative technologies…

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I figured out how to run a SQL query directly against a CSV file using the sqlite3 command-line utility:

They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster, while requiring 60 % less storage (on average).

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