When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a scalability nightmare by inventing and open-sourcing Vitess…

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The theft almost always benefits China's official economic policy.

The greatest hardware hacks of all time were simply the result of finding software keys in memory. The AACS encryption debacle — the 09 F9 key that allowed us to decrypt HD DVDs — was t…

A binary interface let Chez Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's library - guenchi/Darkart

Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff because of what it enables: PKI lets you define a system cr…

Google One bundles cloud storage, powerful AI capabilities, and helpful features across Google — all in one shareable plan.

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Niantic, the publisher of the popular “Pokémon Go” mobile app, is in the process of raising a new round of capital that would value the company at $3.9 billion.

Windows 10 collects an “Activity History” of applications you launch on your PC and sends it to Microsoft. Even if you disable or clear this, Microsoft’s Privacy Dashboard still shows an “Activity History” of applications you’ve launched on your PCs.

A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website without having to add external libraries. Also works for single page applications made with the likes of react and vue.js.

When Pieter Omvlee was tasked with designing a simple drawing application as part of his computer science class at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, he set about creating… Keep reading

1 billion row datasets on your laptop

Facebook has always sold data to advertisers, and it probably always will.

Compiler Explorer is an interactive online compiler which shows the assembly output of compiled C++, Rust, Go (and many more) code.

Unfettered genius. Unpredictable rages. Here's what it was like to work at Tesla as Model 3 manufacturing ramped up and the company's leader melted down.

The on-paper assessment represents a realization that Verizon's online ad strategy, called Oath, is a bust.