Element, a for-profit open source company and creator of the Matrix protocol, has announced a change in their licensing approach. They will now license their main Matrix server (Synapse), their second-generation server (Dendrite), and associated server-side projects under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3. This change aims to create a level playing field and […]
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In the world of web development, new frameworks and tools are constantly emerging, but one thing that remains constant is the need to work with the Document Object Model (DOM). Even with popular frameworks like Angular and React, we still need to understand and manipulate the DOM. That’s where this collection of resources comes in. […]
Scientists from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, together with research groups from the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the CSIC and the Complutense University of Madrid, have developed artificial proteins capable of degrading microplastics and nanoplastics found in PET bottles. They have added three amino acids to a defense protein from the strawberry anemone, enabling […]
In this blog post, the author discusses their experience with remote work as a software engineer. They draw parallels between remote work and video games, highlighting the freedom and flexibility it offers. However, they also emphasize the importance of trust and productivity in a remote work setting, noting that physical presence is not as important […]
In the world of FPGA design, there are plenty of affordable options for enthusiasts, students, and developers on a budget. This blog post explores some of the most noteworthy and cost-effective FPGA development boards on the market. One standout board is the Lattice iCEstick, which offers compatibility with the YoSys open-source FPGA toolchain and can […]
Last week, it was revealed that a prominent cybercrime service had been hacked, exposing its inner workings and the identity of its proprietor, known as “Fearless.” This service, called SWAT USA Drops, is based in Russia and recruits people in the United States to reship packages of stolen electronics purchased with stolen credit cards. Recent […]
Prossimo is excited to announce the release of sudo-rs, a Rust rewrite of the sudo utility. The sudo utility is widely used by engineers to switch between user and administrative accounts in the Linux operating system. The security of sudo is crucial, which is why sudo-rs was developed. It enhances security by using a memory […]
TCP Brutal is a congestion control algorithm that has been ported to TCP from Hysteria. It is actively maintained as an official subproject of Hysteria and is designed to be in sync with the Brutal implementation in Hysteria. TCP Brutal supports all existing TCP proxy protocols but requires support from both the client and server […]
The H2O.ai db-benchmark has been updated with new results, and the AWS EC2 instance used for benchmarking has been changed to ensure fairness across libraries. DuckDB is the fastest library for both join and group by queries at almost every data size. The benchmark was re-run on a c6id.metal machine to avoid issues with network […]
BeagleBoard.org has announced the release of BeagleV-Fire, a single-board computer that integrates Microchip’s PolarFire MPFS025T FCVG484E, a 5x core RISC-V System on Chip (SoC) with FPGA fabric. It is designed for a wide range of applications including robotics, IoT, and artificial intelligence. The BeagleV-Fire comes with a RISC-V CPU with four 64-bit application cores, an […]