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Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back End
Rust vs Go: Battle for the Backend A crab and a gopher walk into a server room. The crab starts flexing its zero-cost abstractions, while the gopher shows off its goroutines. Welcome to backend battle of 2025, where two modern champions are duking it out for supremacy. While I still stand behind my previous argument
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How to watch Games Done Quick’s Frost Fatales speedrunning event
Games Done Quick's next weeklong charity speedrunning shindig kicks off this weekend. Frost Fatales, one of GDQ's two events celebrating women and femmes, runs from March 9 to 16, raising money for the nonprofit National Women's Law Center. Frost Fatales is the winter installment of the pair of events organized by GDQ's Frame Fatales speedrunning
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As SXSW kicks off, marketers embrace it as an ‘accessible’
By Kristina Monllos • March 7, 2025 • Ivy Liu Digiday is at SXSW giving you the latest industry news out of the festival at Austin, Texas. More from the series → When Greg Swan first attended South by Southwest (SXSW) 17 years ago, it “cracked open” his world. “It’s a culture of people who
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Mozilla Revises Firefox Terms of Use After Backlash from Users
Key Takeaways Mozilla faced backlash after updating Firefox’s Terms of Use, which initially suggested the company could exploit user data under a broad license. Concerns grew when users noticed that Mozilla had removed a key statement from its Privacy Notice and FAQ, which previously assured them that Firefox did not sell personal data. In response
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2025 Predictions: Cloud Architectures, Cost Management and Hybrid By Design
Bad gateway Error code 502 Visit cloudflare.com for more information. 2025-03-05 08:07:08 UTC You Browser Working Zagreb Cloudflare Working gigaom.com Host Error What happened? The web server reported a bad gateway error. What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes. Cloudflare Ray ID: 91b81e352a9eec2a • Your IP: 178.218.165.60 • Performance & security
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The Kill-or-Be-Killed Fight for Crypto’s Future
Billionaire Giancarlo Devasini of Tether wants to maintain the stablecoin’s freedoms; his rival, Jeremy Allaire of Circle, is working hard to rein in his competitor with regulations
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The NIH Is Being Slashed and Burned, Not “Reformed”
Sensible Medicine continues to encourage criticism of our viewpoints. Vinay Prasad wrote recently that cutting NIH funding was Sensible Medicine . Dr. Leslie Bienen offers this rebuttal. It is an excellent read. JMM By Leslie Bienen Since the NIH order on February 7 th capping indirect funds to grantees at 15%, the “outrage machine” that
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France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and
France is proposing a law to require encrypted messaging applications, including Signal and WhatsApp, and encrypted email services such as Proton Mail to provide law enforcement with decrypted data on request. An amendment to France’s proposed “Narcotraffic” bill, which is passing through the National Assembly in the French Parliament, will require tech companies to hand
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‘Positive steps’ in redress for Post Office Capture victims
Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 27 Feb 2025 17:17 The law firm representing 100 former subpostmasters who suffered the life-changing effects of being blamed for unexplained