Security researchers have found a way to corrupt the firmware of a critical component usually found in servers to turn the systems into an unbootable hardware assembly. The recovery procedure requires physical intervention to replace the malicious firmware.
An Application of Sequence Model to Mine Waze Open Data of Traffic Incidents, using Python and Keras.
Summarizes scientific findings in one sentence.
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
Art made with code.
Many distributed storage systems achieve high data access throughput via partitioning and replication, each system with its own advantages and tradeoffs. In order to achieve high scalability, however, today’s systems generally reduce transactional support, disallowing single transactions from spanning multiple partitions. Calvin is a practical transaction scheduling and data replication layer that uses a deterministic ordering guarantee to significantly reduce the normally prohibitive contention costs associated with distributed transactions. Unlike previous deterministic database system prototypes, Calvin supports disk-based storage, scales near-linearly on a cluster of commodity machines, and has no single point of failure. By replicating transaction inputs rather than effects, Calvin is also able to support multiple consistency levels—including Paxosbased strong consistency across geographically distant replicas—at no cost to transactional throughput.
CriticMarkup is a way for authors and editors to track changes to documents in plain text. As with Markdown, small groups of distinctive characters allow you to highlight insertions, deletions, substitutions and comments, all without the overhead of heavy, proprietary office suites.
- NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter
- Ariane 5 Flight 501
- EDS Child Support System
- Soviet Gas Pipeline Explosion
- Bitcoin Hack, Mt. Gox
- Heathrow Terminal 5 Opening
- The Mariner 1 Spacecraft
- The Morris Worm
- Pentium FDIV bug
- Knight's $440 Million Error
- Honourable mention: NOAA-19 Satellite
termtosvg is a Unix terminal recorder written in Python that renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations.
Features
- Produce lightweight and clean looking animations embeddable on a project page
- Custom color themes, terminal UI and animation controls via SVG templates
- Compatible with asciinema recording format
OpenNIC provides an open alternative DNS root, provided and controlled by users.
Pub/Sub, Triggers, FDW, JSONB, Extensions,...
This site is dedicated to the study of second-level thinking, the development of frameworks to evaluate related decisions, and bringing together people with these interests.
Open source test case management system based on Django, Python 3.
The bhyve hypervisor is a nice addition to a FreeBSD developer's toolbox. Guests can be used both to develop new features and to test merges to stable branches. The hypervisor has a wide variety of uses beyond developing FreeBSD as well.