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KrebsOnSecurity Marks 16 Years Tracking Cybercrime's Enablers
The security news outlet celebrates its anniversary by reflecting on a year of investigations into the infrastructure and services that power global cybercrime operations.
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Gift Guide: Tech-Focused Presents for Developers This Holiday Season
GitHub's merchandise shop offers a curated selection of developer-oriented gifts, from apparel to workspace accessories, with discounts running through early December.
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Unix Pioneer Brian Kernighan Weighs In on Rust, Linux Fragmentation, and Modern Software
At 83, the Bell Labs legend and C language co-author shared candid views on memory-safe languages, the proliferation of Linux distributions, and the state of software today during a recent talk at a vintage computing festival.
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AWS Certification Exam Day: Check-in, ID Requirements, and Testing Rules
AWS outlines comprehensive policies for candidates taking certification exams, covering check-in procedures, identification requirements, and conduct expectations for both test center and online proctored assessments.
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How Bizarre Bugs Expose Critical Security Flaws in Complex Systems
At PyCon US 2025, engineer Mia Bajić examined notorious software failures—including the Boeing 737 MAX disaster and a Mars probe destroyed by unit conversion mistakes—to reveal how cascading defects and hidden assumptions create catastrophic vulnerabilities.
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GitHub Universe 2025 Brings Developer Conference to San Francisco in October
GitHub's annual gathering returns to Fort Mason Center on October 28-29, 2025, offering hands-on learning, networking, and early access to upcoming platform features for developers and tech leaders.
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Maximizing One-on-Ones: Engineers Should Treat Manager Meetings as Career Development Sessions
Rather than limiting one-on-one meetings to status reports, engineers can leverage these sessions to surface obstacles, align on career trajectories, and unlock advancement opportunities.
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GitHub's Community Manager Program Expands Support for Open Source Public Goods
GitHub's Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program completed its second year, training 55 community managers to build contributor communities around open source projects aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals.