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The Linux Foundation | August 14, 2018
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Diversity Empowerment Summit provides insights, ideas, and examples to help open source projects and professionals adopt inclusive practices.
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Diversity Empowerment Summit Highlights Importance of Allies
Diversity and inclusion are hot topics as projects compete to attract more talent to power development efforts now as well as build their ranks to carry the projects into the future. The Diversity Empowerment Summit co-located with Open Source Summit coming up in Vancouver August 29-31, will offer...
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O'Reilly | August 14, 2018
A Quick Reminder on HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS Everywhere! So the plugin says, and now browsers are warning users that sites not implementing https:// are security risks. Using HTTPS everywhere is good advice. And this really means "everywhere": the home page, everything. Not just the login page, or the page where you accept donations....
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insideHPC | August 14, 2018
Julia 1.0 Release Opens the Doors for a Connected World
Today Julia Computing announced the Julia 1.0 programming language release, “the most important Julia milestone since Julia was introduced in February 2012.” As the first complete, reliable, stable and forward-compatible Julia release, version 1.0 is the fastest, simplest and most productive open-...
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Codeship Blog | August 14, 2018
4 Tips for Successful Remote 1-1s
Team dynamics are complicated enough even when everyone can grab lunch together. It’s often the “relationship” side of your team that will need some different techniques in a remote setting. If you’re a manager, building strong relationships with your direct reports is paramount for both their...
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Paul Brown | August 13, 2018 iceberg-linux.jpg
Linus Torvalds published the 4.18 kernel on August 12th; the kernel continues to shed old code while keeping an eye on security.
Linux Kernel 4.18 Keeps Things Solid and Secure
Linus Torvalds published the 4.18 kernel on Sunday, one week later than expected. This has a been a rocky release... and it’s all Android's fault (more or less).
You see, Android systems lack tmpfs, the temporary file systems you usually see hanging off your /tmp directory. In regular Linux systems...
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Vegard | August 13, 2018
Compiler Fuzzing, Part 1
Much has been written about fuzzing compilers already, but there is not a lot that I could find about fuzzing compilers using more modern fuzzing techniques where coverage information is fed back into the fuzzer to find more bugs.
If you know me at all, you know I'll throw anything I can get my...
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GitHub Engineering | August 13, 2018
GLB: GitHub's Open Source Load Balancer
At GitHub, we serve tens of thousands of requests every second out of our network edge, operating on GitHub’s metal cloud. We’ve previously introduced GLB, our scalable load balancing solution for bare metal datacenters, which powers the majority of GitHub’s public web and git traffic, as well as...
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EE Times | August 13, 2018
IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages
It's been said that programming languages are akin to religion. Engineers and developers will go out of their way to defend the use of their favorite language. (Perhaps it's more the pain of learning a new language that keeps us using the old). Surely you've seen many surveys on programming...
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Eric Brown | August 10, 2018 processor-edge.jpg
The recent port of TensorFlow to the Raspberry Pi is the latest in a series of chess moves from Google and its chief AI rival Nvidia to win the hearts and keyboards of embedded Linux developers.
TensorFlow Pi Port Is Strategic Move in Edge Analytics Game
Google’s recent announcement that it had ported its open source TensorFlow machine intelligence (ML) library for neural networking to the Raspberry Pi was the latest in a series of chess moves from Google and its chief AI rival Nvidia to win the hearts and keyboards of embedded Linux developers....
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MIT Technology Review | August 10, 2018
Evolutionary Algorithm Outperforms Deep-Learning Machines at Video Games
With all the excitement over neural networks and deep-learning techniques, it’s easy to imagine that the world of computer science consists of little else. Neural networks, after all, have begun to outperform humans in tasks such as object and face recognition and in games such as chess, Go, and...
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