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The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet. Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran […]
The Vercel Marketplace adds support for EdgeDB, Redis, and Supabase with unified billing and simpler installations.
Vercel OpenID Connect support helps you replace long-lived credentials with temporary tokens to reduce risk.
AWS CodeCommit is discontinuing new customer access and will no longer introduce new features. Learn how to migrate to GitHub Enterprise and why it’s the best option for you.
At Meta, we’ve been diligently working to incorporate privacy into different systems of our software stack over the past few years. Today, we’re excited to share some cutting-edge technologies that are part of our Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative. These innovations mark a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to honoring user privacy. PAI offers […]
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.
We are introducing a new metric— real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage (e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in […]
Want to create more randomized effects in your JavaScript code? The `Math.random()` method alone, with its limitations, won’t cut it for generating unique random numbers. Amejimaobari Ollornwi explains how to generate a series of unique random numbers using the `Set` object, how to use these random numbers as indexes for arrays, and explores some practical applications of randomization.
This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations.
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient […]
Insight into how Shopify created a seamless one-click manual testing experience (known as "tophatting") for mobile applications by creating a macOS app.
We’re excited to announce wildcard support across our Ruleset Engine-based products and our open-source wildcard crate in Rust. Configuring rules has never been easier, with powerful pattern matching enabling simple and flexible URL redirects and beyond for users on all plans.
A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events
This year, as part of its annual Magic Quadrant series, Gartner published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing the state of play in the AI Code Assistants market–and named GitHub a Leader.
In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Joel Colburn, a software engineer at Meta, technical lead Junqiang Lan, and software engineer Jack Montgomery discuss the second generation of MTIA, Meta’s in-house training and inference accelerator. They cover the co-design process behind building the second generation of Meta’s first-ever custom silicon for AI workloads, […]
Finding the right typeface for a logo is a challenge and can be a very time-consuming process that requires both creativity and a practical approach. Levi Honing provides the essential background and tools to enhance your typography journey and apply this knowledge to your logo design. Let’s dive deep to learn how to create a logo that is not only expressive but also purposeful and well-thought-ou
Hey look at that, the State of CSS Survey for 2024 is open and taking submissions.
You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I fancy). There's a pattern to it, right? Stop,
A client asked if we could mimic the "rubber band" scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. It’s a behavior that
After integrating Dev Mode into our design system workflow, I’ve gathered several insights to help teams navigate this powerful tool. Here are my top takeaways.
Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.1 will enable new workflows, such as synthetic data generation and model distillation with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models. At AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Meta engineers discussed every step of how we […]
