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Plugged Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux Earlier this month,  Apple revealed its own ARM-based M1 processor, along with new MacBooks and a desktop Mac Mini powered by this chip. Reviewers across the globe have been praising Apple’s first attempt, giving it high marks for performance and battery life. All this positive coverage has tempted many to take the plunge and bu

Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, Apple announced that it’ll stop allowing HTTPS certificates on Safari with more than 13 months of validity, later this year. HTTPS certificates, based on the latest TLS encryption standards, ensure that your connection to a particular website is safe and secure. Any certificate issued after September 1, w

Mozilla’s set to launch a premium version of its revered Firefox browser this fall. In an interview with German media outlet T3N, the company’s CEO, Chris Beard, said that it’s aiming to launch the new version by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage. The company’s already experimented with a VPN service by partnering up with ProtonVPN and offering a $10 subscription. Now, the

Design & Dev GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories Finally! GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t visible to the broader public, and are shared only with a handful of pre-defined collaborators – to paying users. New

Fintech and ecommerce Official Google account hacked to promote Bitcoin scam on Twitter Google is the latest one... In the latest in a string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on Twitter, attackers have breached an official Google account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam to its over 800,000 followers. The official G Suite Twitter account just blasted the following message to hundreds of thousan

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Today, 10 years after its public launch, GitHub sits at the center of all developer workflows. But reflecting on this first decade in business, it’s not unrealistic to think that it’ll be at the center of all workflows in the years to come. In fact, because of GitHub’s roots in the developer

Design & Dev Report: 80’s kids started programming at an earlier age than today’s millennials Thanks BBC Micro! HackerRank has published its 2018 Developer Skills Report. The paper looks at a number things essential to understanding the developer landscape, and explores things like the perks coders demand from their workplaces, the technologies they prefer to use, and how they entered the software

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Apple’s iPhone X is due to be revealed later today, but it’s apparently already started to hit the benchmarks. Shocker: it’s fast. Like, insanely fast. A mysterious ‘iPhone10,5‘ showed up on Geekbench’s catalog today, and assuming it’s not somehow a false entry, it’s posting speeds that are

Design & Dev Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest Is the end of Ruby on Rails nigh? Everything seems to point that way. Developer interest is waning, and now Coding Dojo, one of the largest programming bootcamps in the United States, has ejected it from its curriculum. This, it explains, is due to lower employer demand for the technology. Coding Dojo, whic

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank. It was meant as a fun little article about the weird fact that large parts of our banking system is written in a programming language from 1959. It sounded pretty funny, but we soon st

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Do you think you can tell a piece of music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) from one created by a human composer? Before you read any further, let’s find out. The following audio consists of two fragments, one written by AI, the other by a human. So, which one’s which? Reveal the ans

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Hooli Google just released  an image compression technology called RAISR (Rapid and Accurate Super Image Resolution) designed to save your precious data without sacrificing photo quality. Claiming to use up to 75 percent less bandwidth, RAISR analyzes both low and high-quality versions of th

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Microsoft Microsoft unveils Surface Studio, its first-ever desktop computer Update: Our hands-on is up here! Microsoft is throwing down the gauntlet against the iMac. After months of rumors, leaks, and speculation, Microsoft unveiled the Surface Studio, its first-ever desktop PC, at an event in New York today. Like the iMac, it’s an all-in-one (AIO) PC, with all its components held in a single bas

Security A massive DDOS attack against Dyn DNS is causing havoc online [Update: Resolved] A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against DynDNS is causing havoc online, with many major websites reportedly unavailable. According to Dyn DNS, the attack started at 11:10 UTC, and it targeted its managed DNS service. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a tool used to resolve human-readable web addre

If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Chrome on a daily basis, you know how much it can slow down your computer. As websites and online tools ask more and more from computers, browsers have quickly become a big burden — especially when they don’t do a great job at memory management. The Chromium team has worked hard on improving the browser and is soon ready to present an update tha

The days of “above the fold” are over. Long scrolling, single-page sites, and infinitely scrolling sites are becoming more and more common lately, and it’s no mere trend or coincidence. Web design in general has been moving in this direction for years now, and the recent popularity of long scrolling is the decisive result of current functionality issues and user tastes. Now is the right time for l

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → If you’re like anyone at TNW, you’re probably using Slack every day, all day long. I don’t mind; it’s a well designed app. But their newly released beta is bringing it to another level. Their current macOS app is built using MacGap, which is a wrapper for web apps — so technically, it was ju

TNW Conference 2025 is moving to NDSM, Amsterdam 🎟 Secure your 2-for-1 tickets now! Google Chrome is helping kill Flash. Moving forward, the browser will “de-emphasize” Flash in favor of HTML5. The slow bandaid-pull starts in September with Chrome 53. Google’s reasoning for the switch is Flash is — well, Flash: Today, more than 90% of the Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support things

Google today launched a new website testing tool to help you determine its speed and mobile-friendliness. It’s a product from the Think With Google team, which provides insights on how to best optimize your business online to attract, convert, and retain customers. Google most prominently highlighted statistics about how websites today need to be fast.com fast, citing that if the page doesn’t load

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Github Streaks are dead and gone. About ten days ago, GitHub announced it was changing contribution graphs to reflect private as well as public commits, and ditching the metric that tracked how long you’d been active altogether. Here’s how GitHub framed it: As part of this update, code strea