As an operating system GNU/Linux has become a real mess because of the fragmented nature of the project, the bloatware in the kernel, and because of the jerking around by commercial interests.
Biscuit is a monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go for x86-64 CPUs. It was written to study the performance trade-offs of using a high-level language with garbage collection to implement a kernel with a common style of architecture.
Ferry flying is a lucrative but high-risk industry. Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents – distances these aircraft were not designed to fly.
When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the US Government burgled the office of his psychiatrist to look for medical evidence to discredit him.
Monday was a frustrating day as the Assange Hearing drifted deep into a fantasy land where nobody knows or is allowed to say that people were tortured in Guantanamo Bay and under extraordinary rendition.
Archaeologists in Egypt found 14 coffins from around 2,500 BC, following 13 found last week, all at the desert necropolis of Saqqara.
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WordPress is the dominant content management system on the internet. It powers everything from blogs to complex websites with dynamic content. This tutorial will discuss getting WordPress up and running on OpenBSD 6.2.
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So what happens is, you’re supposed to fill out a bunch of bytes as proof of who you are, and then a bunch of bytes that represent stuff like seconds since the start of the Unix epoch. If you can’t do this, NetLogon figures you aren’t really who you say you are.
WordPress Plugins Exploited in Ongoing Attack, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn users of several plugins to update as vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to redirect website visitor traffic. Researchers are warning of an ongoing campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in a slew of WordPress plugins.
Read MoreSoftware sector braces for a split among leading companies
Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more.
Read MoreThe End of Agile
I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks. Every morning, at precisely eight o’clock, the team of developers and architects would stand around a room paneled in white boards and would begin passing around a toy hockey stick.
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Ubuntu 15.10 running on i5-6500 CPU. Fedora 24 running on i5-6500 + i7-6600U CPU.
Read MoreSoftware Architecture Guide
Enterprise Architecture groups often get separated from day to day development. This can lead to their knowledge of development work getting out of date and development teams not taking a broad company-wide perspective.
Read MoreFacebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project
Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more.
Read MoreThe Browser Monopoly
There is really only one Big Tech monopoly that I actively worry about. It’s not Amazon, Facebook or Apple, though they are all extremely dominant in their respective fields and do act in anti-competitive ways that merit regulatory remedy.
Read MoreBitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
Want to steal some Bitcoin? All you need to do is find your victim’s 16-character public key and calculate their private key by solving something called an “elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem.
Read MoreSoftware Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the code for a component of the 787 known as a Crew Information Service/Maintenance System.
Read MoreWeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment.
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