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Top HashiCorp Vault Alternatives [2023]
In August 2023, HashiCorp changed their from license MPL 2.0 to to BuSL. This decision has led many companies and developers to look for alternative solutions to HashiCorp tools, including Vault. The good news is there is a number of open source Hashicorp Vault alternatives that provide comprehensive tooling for secret management. 1. Infisical Infisical …
Immersive VR goggles for mice unlock new potential for brain science
By keeping the mouse in place on the treadmill — rather than allowing it to run through a natural environment or physical maze — neurobiologists can use tools to view and map the brain as the mouse traverses a virtual space. Ultimately, this helps researchers grasp general principles of how activated neural circuits encode information …
How Certain Algorithms to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed – The Markup
In order to understand what’s wrong with governments relying too heavily on data and algorithms, let’s go back to the forests of 18th-century Prussia. As James Scott wrote in his book Seeing Like a State, governments in the former German state primarily viewed forests as a way to extract revenue. So when they did surveys …
Kernel security now: Linux’s unique method for securing code
alexsl/Getty Images The Linux Foundation’s Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan 2023, Kroah-Hartman — Linux stable kernel maintainer and a prominent member of the Linux kernel security team — shed light on the evolving …
Partitioned consensus and its impact on Spanner’s latency
In a post that I published in September, I described two primary approaches for performing consensus in distributed systems, and how the choice of approach affects the consistency guarantees of the system. In particular, consensus can either be unified, such that all writes in the system participate in the same distributed consensus protocol, or it …
OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed company
OpenAI, under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, has agreed to purchase $51 million worth of AI chips from a startup named Rain AI, in which Altman has also made a personal investment. Rain AI, a San Francisco-based firm, is researching neuromorphic processing units (NPUs) designed to mimic the human brain. OpenAI’s agreement to purchase …
Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut • The Register
Microsoft reckons Visual Studio Code has a community of more than 2.5 million Java developers, and coming up next for them is full support for Java 21 and changes intended to improve reliability and stability. Java has dropped down the TIOBE index from number one in 2020 to number four in the latest iteration. It …
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety
By Zoe Kleinman & Liv McMahonTechnology editor & reporter BBC A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. Lukasz Krupski leaked data, including customer complaints about Tesla’s braking and self-driving software, to German newspaper Handelsblatt in …
Stripe: Radar Technical Guide
The recent, massive acceleration in ecommerce has created a corresponding increase in online payments fraud. Worldwide, fraud costs businesses more than an estimated $20 billion annually. Plus, for every dollar lost to fraud, the total cost to businesses is actually much higher due to increased operational costs, network fees, and customer churn. Not only is …
Capital Efficient Businesses – by Elad Gil
For the last 5 decades[1], every wave of technology-driven companies has had amongst them highly capital efficient businesses. The capital efficiency tends to reflect that (a) people really want your product and will pay you for it and (b) the founders are cost-conscious and frugal, and do not overhire. Indeed, Paul Graham from YC has …
