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“No Toptal customer, company, or individual was affected by this incident.”

“There is no meaningful sense in which a thread-unsafe language provides memory safety.”

“BEC scams were the second most costly form of cybercrime reported to the feds last year, with nearly $2.8 billion in claimed losses.”

“Licensing costs have increased drastically, sometimes exceeding tenfold, with mandatory multi-year commitments required for accessing VMware software.”

“We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out.”

“The government may interpret lack of social media activity or refusal to unlock accounts as an attempt to evade the requirement or deliberately hide online activity.”

“Customers upgrade to a fixed software release to remediate these vulnerabilities.”

“TODO comments don’t need to get done in order to be valuable.”

“Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources.”

“Access to the law cannot be conditioned on the consent of a private party.”

“Internet traffic falling by approximately 80 percent within the next few hours in Spain, and up to 90 percent in Portugal.”

“You have no one to control you. You can be yourself. You can work by yourself.”

“As people now rely on wages from nickel, layoffs will cause poverty.”

“The biggest speedup I’ve seen so far.”

“It uses Git as a backend, which means you can begin using it non-destructively with a single command.”

“Trends consist of many videos created by many fandoms, and there are more micro-trends enjoyed by diverse communities than ever before.”

“Patching alone is not enough. We strongly advise defenders not to wait for a vendor fix before taking action.”

“This is something that the vice-president is very annoyed about and which needs to be resolved. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down.”

“You wouldn’t pour three separate concrete foundations if you have three steps that need a foundation. You’d do it once so that it’s ready for anything that needs it.”

“Models will become a commodity.”

“Even one percent ends up being almost a million people in the world who should be treated with a different kind of medicine.”

“500~700% performance improvement for basic file copy operations.”

“I think that mistakes were made.”

“A game-changing technology.”

“The possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct.”

“The lack of communication is poor.”

“An incubator for thinking about the problems and solutions of the packaging community for the next, let’s say, ten years, five years, 30 years.”

“Men languish in a foreign prison on flimsy, even frivolous, accusations.”

“Unfortunately, the reality of talent in Nigeria now is that you have to leave to reach your full potential.”

“This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional.”

“This app shows that biometric technology has moved well beyond just confirming someone’s identity. In the hands of ICE officers, it’s becoming a way to retrieve vast amounts of data about a person on demand just by pointing a camera in their face.”

“We are confident, based on our records, this test account was not accessed by any third party other than the security researchers.”

“An educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level.”

“Blocked more than 4 million unwanted HTTP requests per day.”

“Someone shows up with a dead body and just says they died of natural causes…do you just take their word for it?”

“The White House proposed just $3.9 billion for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate for FY26, but the minibus allocates $7.25 billion, just a 1% drop from enacted 2025 levels.”

“Your space-time could have corners, edges and folds, and it doesn’t matter. This approach doesn’t care about non-smoothness.”

“The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack.”

“Seagate’s new Exos M 30TB and IronWolf Pro 30TB are the first HAMR-based HDDs available in channel and retail markets, as previously the company only shipped such drives to select hyperscale customers.”

“I appreciate your friendship more than anything.” “Me to thank you Alan. i feel safe with you.” He shouldn’t have.

“We are 100 percent fiber optic. Everything that we’re doing is all underground. We’re not doing aerial because we really want to protect the infrastructure and make sure we’re having a reliable connection.”

“One leak is a mistake. But when the same type of sensitive key gets exposed again and again, it’s not just bad luck, it’s a sign of deeper negligence.”

“Tokopedia has ’lost its soul’ and been ‘reduced to just another generic Chinese marketplace.’”

“The entire project — assets, animations, and code — is made with Blender and the popular Godot Game Engine.”

“Chrome almost certainly uses this header as an integrity signal, verifying that the declared user agent matches the underlying platform, spotting user agent spoofing attempts.”

“Success indexes less on IQ and more on consistency. The willingness to doggedly show up every single day can take you to some really surprising and amazing places.”

“Creators of AI-generated pornography and celebrity deepfakes are running out of easy hosting options.”

“Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else besides relying on Google funding.”

“We just needed to figure out how to have everything in a very confined space.”

“Serialize writers by acquiring a special lock that we hold till after commit.”