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If you’ve been thinking about Zero Trust or SASE, Cloudflare One Week will demonstrate why Cloudflare One is one of the most complete SASE offerings in the market, with some of the best performance, and why it will only continue to improve
Expand the completeness of your dependency graph by using the dependency submission API, which will create more comprehensive alerts on supply chain vulnerabilities
User interface designers work with tables on a daily basis. The table is often a complex combination of text components, lines, rectangles, and icons which could be very difficult to work with, especially if you also need to support different screen resolutions, change the order of columns, and use real-life content. In this article, Andrii shares his approach to managing tables in Figma with a bi
The physics behind spring animations
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. We cover what the…
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-22057, a use-after-free in the Qualcomm gpu kernel driver, to gain root and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox on a Samsung Z flip 3. I’ll look at various mitigations that are implemented on modern Android devices and how they affect the exploit.
All the data in the world won’t do anyone any good if we can’t make sense of it. Or better yet, make it sing. This edition of Web Design Done Well showcases magnificent examples of data visualization on the web, and closes with some of the countless resources available to those who want to learn to make their own.
Last week, the French National Data Protection Authority, CNIL, published guidelines for a GDPR-compliant way of loading Google Analytics. Today, Zaraz is launching a new set of features to help our customers use Google Analytics and similar tools, while meeting those strict standards
Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square
We discuss the options for case-insensitive comparison and pattern matching in PostgreSQL, comparing the performance of different approaches.
The root cause of our recent service outage and how we resolved it
Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.
Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects.
To combat the prevalence of malware in the open source ecosystem, GitHub now publishes malware occurrences in the GitHub Advisory Database. These advisories power Dependabot alerts and remain forever free and usable by the community.
Zack Deveau, Senior Application Security Engineer at Shopify, shares the details behind a recent contribution to the Rails library, inspired by a bug bounty report we received. He'll go over the report and its root cause, how we fixed it in our system, and how we took it a step further to make Rails more secure by upda
In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode. We’ll check a good set of practices we can use for that purpose, and we’ll see the use of the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset to tweak our website as needed.
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking
Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam's "Am I on the IndieWeb yet?" with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub.
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.
What the research is: Federated learning with differential privacy (FL-DP) is one of the latest privacy-enhancing technologies being evaluated at Meta as we constantly work to enhance user privacy and further safeguard users’ data in the products we design, build, and maintain. FL-DP enhances privacy in two important ways: It allows machine learning (ML) models […]
