X is investigating a wave of unsolicited password reset emails that it believes may be tied to the rollout of its new payments service.
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RSS →Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and export that as a PNG. I asked GPT-5.6-
OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate and more — today's dns signal.
Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition
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Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.
Promises ‘secure artifacts’ for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite
In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.
This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper
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JSON →Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat lands
Route hijack attacks cause malicious rerouting of Internet traffic by exploiting the trusting nature of the Internet’s routing system. During the summer of 2025, a route hijack attack affected the Domain Name System’s (DNS) root servers. If it were more widely deployed, technolo
A pair of presentations featured during the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session of the IETF 110 Online meeting (8-12 March 2021) will highlight the application of machine learning to video bit-rate adaptation and Domain Name System (DNS) caching and privacy.
An RFC updating DNS terminology was recently published, continuing a decades-long IETF practice of publishing documents to help introduce interested readers to protocol topics by going through the most important terms.
The DoH specification in RFC 8484 defines a standardized format and protocol for sending Domain Name System (DNS) queries through HTTP rather than the traditional DNS protocol.
Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452, shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.
Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt
And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere
Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now has an internal, from-scratch, clean-room reverse-engineered re
LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling
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