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Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores | Tris Sherliker

IP, technology & commercial law

Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

apenwarr.ca

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

How to Rack 30 Petabytes of Storage

We built the heap, a 30 petabyte data storage cluster in downtown San Francisco, and spent under $500,000.

Determinate Systems

A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly

Determinate Nix now supports Wasm functions in Nix expressions, bringing a range of new possibilities to the Nix ecosystem

Mutate your locked state inside a closure

Why your mutex wrapper should accept a closure for mutation instead of a plain value, with examples from the standard library and Tailscale.

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

Video Conferencing with Postgres — PlanetScale

Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.

Ars Technica

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours

Ars Technica

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% | Datadog

Get an inside look at shrinking large Go binaries in the Datadog Agent through dependency and linker analysis.

Mastodon can be used as a DDOS tool · Issue #4486 · mastodon/mastodon

Hi ! Today I found this tweet : https://twitter.com/mattiasgeniar/status/892446659245993984 I tried to post a link on my instance, Mastodon.cloud, and follow the link's web server logs -> 400 insta...

Ars Technica

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

Both of the chip's CPU dies will include 64MB of extra cache stacked beneath.

How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety

Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.