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Using CVE-2023-43641 as an example, I’ll explain how to develop an exploit for a memory corruption vulnerability on Linux. The exploit has to bypass several mitigations to achieve code execution.
Learn how we’re experimenting with generative AI models to extend GitHub Copilot across the developer lifecycle.
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients. The Labyrinth encrypted storage protocol whitepaper explains our protocol f
Five-second testing is a popular method of usability research used in the industry, yet in essence, its core belief boils down to virtually a superstition. Eduard Kuric looks under the hood at how first impressions are affected by various factors and how UX researchers and product owners can ensure that the user’s first steps can get off on the right foot.
A recent decision from the Higher Regional Court of Cologne in Germany marked important progress for Cloudflare and the Internet in pushing back against misguided attempts to address online copyright infringement through the DNS system
This post wraps up the PGSQL Phriday #014 event, links the participating authors and articles, and briefly reviews the "submissions".
Customers using GitHub Enterprise Server can gain more insight and understanding into the security of their code.
Learn how researchers and security experts at GitHub, Microsoft, and Santander came together to address the challenges presented by the post-quantum cryptography world.
Slack users have more power than ever to automate routine tasks and processes, saving themselves time each day. Workflow Builder, a task automation tool built into Slack, has continued to improve since its launch back in 2019. Along with various new steps and triggers, we built a new sidebar section for all available workflow steps.…
Vercel's Conformance and Code Owners bring automated static analysis and framework-defined code ownership to enterprise teams, catching performance and security issues before production while ensuring the right reviewers approve every change.
If you’re on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for the developer who has it all, look no further. We’ve curated a list of 10 must-have items (plus a few more) that strike the perfect balance between practicality and style.
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Skia is a cross-platform 2D graphics library that provides a set of drawing primitives which run on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and the browser. Over the past two years, Shopify Engineering has sponsored development of the @shopify/react-native-skia library that exposes Skia functionality to React Native. The React Native (RN) Skia community is one of the most vibrant and interesting in t
Discussing the decisions surrounding JavaScript prototypes, the article by Juan Diego Rodriguez scrutinizes their origin, examines missteps in the design, and explores how these factors have affected the way we write JavaScript today.
The user experience of the Frontend Cloud: Part 2 of the developer's guide to a future-proofed stack.
Cloudflare Gen 12 Compute servers are moving to 2U1N form factor to optimize the thermal design to accommodate both high-power CPUs (>350W) and GPUs effectively while maintaining performance and reliability
Git is designed to assure us that we can track a project’s files at different points in time. But it doesn’t assure us that those files are always safe along the way. For those of you who have dealt with the sinking feeling that you’ve irrevocably deleted and lost files, Sanmi has a couple of approaches that, in the right situations, may help bring them back.
TL;DR Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that combines dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning, we’ve been able to obtain strong results. Using part of the algorithm, we’re able to obtain a greater understanding of why these clusters exist, allowing user-researchers and data scientists to refine, improve,
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment to celebrate that Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. I can’t possibly say it better than Paul Ford, so I’ll just refer you there: Every five or six minutes, someone in the social sciences publishes a PDF with a tit
Explore the July edition, featuring prompts, tips, and use cases for GitHub Copilot.
The GitHub Security Lab examined the most popular open source software running on our home labs, with the aim of enhancing its security. Here’s what we found and what you can do to better protect your own smart home.
