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The Biden Administration suffers a significant setback in its efforts to curb fossil fuel development.

SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware.

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I used to think that I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code. However, I have realized that I do write comments, and that I find them really useful. To see how many comments I…

Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there

Unlock the Power of Big Data with the Next Generation of Investment Analysis Tools

Well, Cawthorn's chief of staff, William 'Blake' Harp, did run a fireworks stand, so there is that.

Open source enterprise software provider SUSE is set to make two of its Linux distributions, the openSUSE Leap community edition and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) fully binary compatible when it releases its SLE Service Pack 3 (SP3) in July. The idea is to, among other things, both improve support for openSUSE as it benefits from…

If you’ve read about privacy or web tech in the past few months, you’ve probably heard of FLoC. For those less familiar: it’s Google’s…

Aya is a new eBPF library for the Rust programming language, built with a focus on developer experience and operability.

You understand the importance of data. It shapes machine learning (ML) models and drives decisions based on large-scale analytics applications. But what is your data really telling you? Let me explain. I originally trained as a research biochemist. Many years ago, on a flight to a scientific conference, I had an interesting conversation with my…

The terrestrial status of Boston is an unexpectedly fascinating topic. A city built on land rescued from the sea, it is not only unusually at risk from sea-level rise; it also hides parts of its ma…

Even when you’re not completely certain. Because we can never be certain about the future. So we show up for the work, do the reading, engage with the problem. The challenge is to find a poin…

It’s the most crucial team for building scalable software

What does it mean for a software organization to be mature? The truth is maturity doesn't have a clear-cut definition. But as it turns out, mature organizations — defined as those that have had successful DevOps transformations, regularly exceed business objectives and have substantial year-over-year revenue growth — do share five habits in common. 1.…

In the world of Kubernetes, most programs extending Kubernetes are written in Go, and most applications orchestrated by Kubernetes are packaged as containers. These two things have become so common as to have become default, but neither is expressly necessary, as proven by an up and coming project out of Microsoft's Deis Labs called Krustlet,…

I’ve been reading Christopher P. Heuer’s book Into the White. It looks at how the landscape and climate of the far North—the Arctic—threw the European imagination into a bit of a tailspin, presenti…

Steve Makofsky shares how Feedly has become part of his newsletter creation workflow

Basic questions inherent in the public trust doctrine make it hard for the doctrine to develop in a legally principled way.

Business is being driven to the network’s edge because of several advantages it provides. Autonomous vehicles, remote asset monitoring, in-hospital patient monitoring, and real-time defect detection in factories are just a few examples of business applications that leverage the responsive performance, scalability, and reduced latency found at the network edge. As 5G wireless finds ubiquity,…

A package of new proposed laws for regulating tech companies are in part a negotiating ploy, but also an indicator of change.

Want an easier, more cost-effective way to import data? Learn how Flatfile is revolutionizing data onboarding for businesses and customers.

How do we build devices that are shared by default?

Leading a research and development (R&D) team involves many challenges and obstacles to overcome. There’s no better feeling than when your team’s work is going smoothly and everything is headed in the right direction. The team is happy, unified and everybody feels like they’re winning. A significant part of management is dealing with unexpected problems,…

Consistent and rapid delivery of software releases and updates, and the ability to quickly fix code when things go south in minutes instead of in hours or even days are earmarks of a well-functioning DevOps team. Getting there depends on having several socio-techno factors in place, including the adoption of a proper observability framework and…

I’ve become obsessed with birds over the past year of lockdown, after a mourning dove couple began nesting directly outside our kitchen window. We saw the doves every day, patiently handing off the…

Automation, including the use of embedded or native tools from the hyperscalers themselves, is absolutely critical to cloud success.