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[Link] Hack The Web Without A Browser
Read: 19/1/2022 hackaday.com
It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site.
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[Link] Microsoft rolls out revamped Notepad app to Windows 11 Insiders
Read: 9/12/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft is continuing to update and refine Windows 11 two months after its public release, and the Notepad app is the latest bit of the operating system to get some attention.
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[Link] Keep a Changelog
Read: 17/11/2021 keepachangelog.com
To make it easier for users and contributors to see precisely what notable changes have been made between each release (or version) of the project. People do. Whether consumers or developers, the end users of software are human beings who care about what's in the software.
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[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software
Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com
Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.
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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost
Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com
On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture
Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to
In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.
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[Link] Python Ditches The GILs And Comes Ashore
Read: 3/11/2021 hackaday.com
The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future.
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[Link] GitHub Pulls Site and Repo of Pirate Proxy Service ‘Unblockit’ Offline
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
GitHub has removed the repository and the mirror website of Unblockit, a proxy service that allows people to access blocked sites. The developer platform says that the content in question was removed for violating its terms of service, which was confirmed by a follow-up investigation.
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[Link] How the nation’s newest billionaire built a software giant
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Tony Walls, the founder of software company Objective Corp, has quietly added $20 million a week to his wealth pile over the past five months.
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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.
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[Link] Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised
Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com
Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js was compromised, and any software using it as a library may have become victim of a supply chain attack.
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[Link] In Search Of The First Comment
Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com
Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines.
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[Link] Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community.
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[Link] Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theregister.com
Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] How different web browsers affect user experience
Read: 17/10/2021 studio.usgbc.org
Outside of a small minority, people don’t often think about what browser they are using when accessing the web. Indeed, most people in the United States use the same web browser, Google Chrome.
[Link] Migration to SourceForge
Read: 12/10/2021 opengapps.org
Hello everyone! It’s been a while. You may have noticed that our website has undergone some changes. Today we’d like to share what has been going on with the hosting situation at GitHub and shed some light on our decision to transfer our releases to the SourceForge.
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[Link] Docker changes its subscription plans, usage rules, and product line
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
For all Docker's container technology popularity, Docker, the company, has its problems. First, Docker had trouble finding a working business plan. Then, Docker ran short of funds.
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[Link] Chrome will now let you keep searching without hitting the back button
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
Google has announced three new experiments to play with in Chrome beta, with the first allowing users to keep searching without needing to hit the back button.
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[Link] Microsoft Edge feature solves one of the most common browser problems
Read: 22/8/2021 www.techradar.com
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new feature in Microsoft Edge that will allow users of its browser to search through their currently opened tabs.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] You should download the new Google Drive for Desktop
Read: 8/8/2021 www.popsci.com
You might be familiar with Google Drive from its web interface or its mobile apps. But desktop software is available as well, allowing you to seamlessly sync files stored in your Google Drive with the file system on your Windows or macOS computer.
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[Link] Since it's the only way to differentiate in a Chromium-dominated market, Vivaldi 4.1 introduces 'Accordion' tabs
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Browser maker Vivaldi has introduced Accordion Tabs in version 4.1 – yet another way to deal with tab overload. The functionality joins Compact and Two-Level in the array of Tab Stack styles available to users needing help with their tab habit.
[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.
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[Link] From disaster to inconvenience — Zerto adds near-instant ransomware restore
Read: 30/7/2021 blocksandfiles.com
Disaster recovery specialist Zerto aims to deal with the corporate data cancer of ransomware by providing automated virtual machine protection, with restoration within seconds of an attack. Version 9.
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[Link] Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity
Read: 23/7/2021 hackaday.com
When we last checked in on the Audacity community, privacy-minded users of the free and open source audio editor were concerned over proposed plans to add telemetry reporting to the decades old open source audio editing software.
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[Link] Not for children: Audacity fans drop the f-bomb after privacy agreement changes
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A few more litres of accelerant were poured onto Audacity critics' fire late last week as an update to the sound editor's privacy agreement seeped out to the consternation of users.
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