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SHA1, one of the Internet's most crucial cryptographic algorithms, is so weak to a newly refined attack that it may be broken by real-world hackers in the next three months, an international team of researchers warned Thursday. Time for retirement on a nice farm upstate where he can hash and play in peace.
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In China, every citizen is being assigned a credit score that drops if a person buys and plays video games, or posts political comments online “without prior permission," or even if social media "friends" do so. The ACLU said the credit rating system, an Orwellian nightmare, should serve as a warning to Americans. Video games are now a thoughtcrime.
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Google says it wants to speed up mobile Web browsing. So here’s the search giant’s solution: An open source project with a difficult name that’s supposed to make it easy to read stuff on your phone. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step.
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The CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo has revealed that the privacy-focused search engine is making a profit despite not tracking its users' online activity and search history. Gabriel Weinberg took to YCombinator's Hacker News to conduct an AMA (ask me anything) on 7 October, making a dig at Google and other major search engines by claiming that privacy does not need to be sacrificed for profitability. The quacks are making bills.
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Rob answers, "How did you find time to learn Elixir?" First, you sleep less. And then? Well if you could stop sleeping all together, that would be great.
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I spend time keeping myself up-to-date and learning new skills as a matter of course, and have done so my entire career. I find that writing articles (such as those on CP) is a great way to consolidate something you have learned. As Einstein famously noted, if you can't explain it, you don't understand it.
Twitter is a great tool for staying current. I follow lots of technical people and groups and regularly look through their tweets to find out what's new.
I also like to read books / articles in bed before going to sleep.
Like the author, I too have a full time job, a partner and children.
Importantly, I also escape and do other things that have nothing to do with work (running, cycling, family time etc). This is really important 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Amazon announced Amazon EC2 Container Registry, a tool designed to simplify container management for developers today at the Amazon re:invent conference Yes please.
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Volkwagen's top executive in the U.S. told lawmakers on Thursday that cheating on emissions with the use of software in diesel cars was not a corporate decision, but something that "individuals did." Ahh... the old "Not my code" excuse.
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Windows 10 is running on 110 million devices, Microsoft said yesterday as it introduced a new Surface Pro tablet, the Surface Book notebook and several Lumia smartphones, all of which run the OS. Not me. I like the Windows 10 popups. Because I'm a masochist.
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Are they counting cores? And the systems in their showrooms?
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Of course it is a white-lie...The only thing they know is the number of downloads and OEM orders...As a lot of people (estimated over 20%) ask for an immediate downgrade (is it down really?) and a lot of downloads are not finished with successful instal or was on virtual machines for test purposes and abandoned later - the real number is unknown. But...Checking the browser market share of Windows 10 shows that the growth slowed down extremely...from nearly 60% a week to less than 10% a week...It seems that Windows 10 won a fast start as lot of innocent people installed it as it was pushed via the common update of Windows 7/8/8.1 - a cleaver step for that time, that could backfire on Microsoft later...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Red Planet once had an ocean and a magnetic field. A new mission is setting out to discover what happened to them. Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with Matt Damon.
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Gary Sinise and Val Kilmer killed it first.
It was a Y2K problem.
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Atlassian JIRA is going through some big changes, the company announced today, splitting into three separate products. Cut off one and and three more shall take its place.
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I thought that was Hydra and not Jira
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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On October 5th, 2015 Larry Wall addressed a crowd of geeks at San Francisco's Exploratorium, saying he couldn't properly express his gratitude to Craigslist. Then he acknowledged how long the development arc had been for Perl 6. "As the old joke goes, Perl 6 is coming out this Christmas." Only this time, he meant it. Hopefully Christmas comes early?
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Does anyone actually use Perl? And if so, why? I'm actually not being sarcastic. I'll go check out their page.
Marc
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Its a scripting language which has been around a long time and had a lot of popularity in the past. So I'm guessing lots use it even if it isn't the newest fad And there's probably still TONS of code out there which uses it.
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Used it unwillingly twenty years ago.
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