2 April 2020

34 links · Thursday

Australian Kids' Smartwatch Maker Hit By Same Bug Again

An Australian company that sells a GPS tracking smartwatch for kids accidently exposed personal data a second time. But this time around, it has not notified users

Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt is a Microsoft MVP for Developer Security, ASPInsider, and Author for Pluralsight„a leader in online training for technology and creative professional

Australian Kids' Smartwatch Maker Hit By Same Bug Again

An Australian company that sells a GPS tracking smartwatch for kids accidently exposed personal data a second time. But this time around, it has not notified users

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Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 2 | .NET Blog

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 2. It contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs at dotnet/…

All Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows 10, Explained

Microsoft is hard at work on PowerToys for Windows 10. This open-source project adds many powerful features to Windows, from a bulk file renamer to an Alt+Tab alternative that lets you search for windows from your keyboard.

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The Physics Travel Guide is an expository wiki which explains concepts in three levels of difficulty. We call these levels: intuitive, concrete and abstract.

A Message to Our Users - Zoom Blog

To our Zoom users around the world, Whether you are a global corporation that needs to maintain business continuity, a local government agency working to keep your community functioning, a school teacher educating students remotely, or a friend that wants to h…

How we reduced our Google Maps API cost by 94%

Being a highly reliable commute partner to our customers, we at Cityflo take all kinds of measures to ensure high accuracy and predictability of our vehicle tracking system. Showing incorrect arrival time to our users will heavily hamper the experience that ou…

The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution

Since senators introduced the EARN IT Act (S. 3398) in early March, EFF has called attention to the many ways in which the bill would be a disaster for Internet users’ free speech and security. We’ve explained how the EARN IT Act could be used to drastically u…

Lens | The Kubernetes IDE

Lens IDE for Kubernetes. The only system you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It's open source and free. Download it today!

libgit2 v1.0 Released

After many years of planning, writing code, and fixing bugs, libgit2 v1.0 has been released. 🎉🎉🎉 libgit2 is a linkable library for working with git repositories in any application, and you probably interact with the library, even if you don't know it. Th…

Resiliency with Polly – Anthony Giretti's .NET blog

Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Stan…

How to Build Custom Forms with React Hooks

Creating forms in React has become easy. Learn how to create custom forms using Hooks, and stop downloading a ton of libraries for our applications.

How to SSH Properly

How to SSH properly and easily improve the security of your SSH model without needing to deploy a new application or make any huge changes to UX.