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On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily developing software for medical equipment. Twenty years ago, he developed a deep professional interest in Java virtual machine internals. You may remember his research blog posts, […]
As new digital platforms and services emerge, the challenge of keeping users’ information safe online is growing more complex – novel technologies require novel privacy solutions. At Google, we continue to invest in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), a family of cutting-edge tools that help solve the critical task of data processing by providing people guarantees that […]
Get ready for our annual game jam, Game Off! Whether you’ve been a participant for years or you’re hearing about it for the first time, this is your chance to create something extraordinary throughout November. The theme for this year? SECRETS. Intriguing, right? What kind of hidden stories, covert missions, or untold mysteries will you […]
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At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale, from designing diverse ML systems at Netflix to […]
November 1, 2024 Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking […]
Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]
Fine-tuning techniques: The term “fine tuning” refers to further training a pretrained model. In the case of LLMs, this means that we take a pretrained foundation model and train it some more. But, there are so many different ways that this training can be done, which makes the concept of fine tuning incredibly vague. This […]
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing with optional type annotations. It was created at Microsoft and first released in 2012. Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O’Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP. He’s also a maintainer of TypeScript ESLint. In this episode, Josh […]
The GitLab security team is aware of a blog post from Sysdig describing how attackers scan public repositories to identify exposed credentials in Git config files. GitLab consistently recommends its customers and users follow several best practices to harden their public GitLab projects to prevent unintentional leaks of their credentials in Git config files or […]