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• YugaByte's distributed database gets GraphQL integration, Jepsen testing in a major update

  YugaByte, the open-source distributed database provider, today officially announced the availability of YugaByte DB 2.0, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Free software icon Richard Stallman has some moronic thoughts about pedophilia

  Is there still room for people like Richard Stallman?

  • Matthew Hughes

• Developer forks GIMP image editor over naughty name

  Open source community to GIMP: Get forked

  • Matthew Hughes

• Cloudflare's Magic Transit lets you push your entire IP traffic through its servers

  Magic Transit protects against DDoS attacks and includes network management features

  • Matthew Hughes

• Activists created a free font made from gerrymandered US voting districts

  Ugly Gerry is a new, free font created by a pair of activists apparently fed up with the US government's practice of gerrymandering ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These are the hours of day famous programmers get work done

  I was curious when the famous programmers do their work. And it is quite easy to find. The result of programmers work is a code. Code is stored in version control systems (VCS). When you put code in VCS the time is record. One of the most popular version control system is git. ...

  • Ivan Bessarabov

• RIP Fernando “Corby” Corbató, inventor of the password (1926-2019)

  Fernando "Corby" Corbató played an outsized role in the development of operating systems and cybersecurity, and laid the ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Cloudflare acquired an old Sun Microsystems slogan and I'm feeling nostalgic

  The sun still hasn't set on Sun Microsystems.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The Wayback Machine can now highlight changes in copy on websites

  The Wayback Machine has a new feature called "Changes" that lets you compare two different archives of a URL, giving a side-by-side ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Inside Shopify's brave API gamble

  It's a big deal for any company to redesign how their APIs work. Shopify is no exception.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton on building a computer for industrial users

  With its latest model, the Raspberry Pi grows up

  • Matthew Hughes

• Alibaba is nudging users to be more ethical with its in-app minigames

  Four years ago, in a move designed to explore the viability of new offline sales models, Alibaba ran a little experiment. ...

  • Trivium UB