Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.

Introducing support for ZSTD in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30, a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios.

NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.

Proper implementation of email hardening techniques can be beneficial even to (sub)domains that are not intended to be used with email.

Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.

Unless something changes, Twitter's engineering workforce could be down by 90%, in just 3 weeks (!!!).

Elon fired 50%.

Then fired a few more for correcting him.

Now 80% of the remaining 50% could take severance.

Here's what I think will happen:

A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file - desgeeko/pdfsyntax

“It will be extremely hard for Twitter to recover from here”

Animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions. Evidence is mounting to show that plants can, too. An article details how plants are rapidly adapting to the adverse effects of climate change, and how they are passing down these adaptations…

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not…

Andddd Twitter just announced to employees via email that it is closing offices until next Monday and disabling badge access for folks.

The criminal complaint against two alleged operators of Z-Library suggests that security wasn't high on their list of priorities

Bankruptcy filings released Thursday morning detailing billions in loans to Bankman-Fried, including to an entity he controlled. Here’s where at least some of that money likely went.

"From my larger group of 50 people, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance. Elon set up meetings with a few who plan to quit."

I don't blame people quitting. They've been offered intimidation, ever-changing policies the last minute, long hours, and…

A new study by researchers at the University of Melbourne has analyzed adverse effects reported by users of the hallucinogenic tea, ayahuasca.

Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.

Textbooks can be prohibitively expensive.

It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.

Scientific Reports - Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality