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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?

The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.

Beyond the Repository
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Beyond the Repository

Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers.

Cargo Cult AI
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Cargo Cult AI

Is the ability to think scientifically the defining essence of intelligence?

Opportunity Cost and Missed Chances in Optimizing Cybersecurity
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Opportunity Cost and Missed Chances in Optimizing Cybersecurity

The loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.

To PiM or Not to PiM
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To PiM or Not to PiM

The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.

Research for Practice: The Fun in Fuzzing
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Research for Practice: The Fun in Fuzzing

The debugging technique comes into its own.

OSS Supply-Chain Security: What Will It Take?
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OSS Supply-Chain Security: What Will It Take?

A discussion with Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, and Chris McCubbin

Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Now is the time to shape what future payment flows will reveal about you.

Split Your Overwhelmed Teams
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Split Your Overwhelmed Teams

Two teams of five is not the same as one team of 10.

From Zero to 100
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From Zero to 100

Demystifying zero trust and its implications on enterprise people, process, and technology.

The Arrival of Zero Trust
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The Arrival of Zero Trust: What Does it Mean?

A discussion of zero-trust enterprise efforts in cybersecurity.

CSRB's Opus One
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CSRB's Opus One

Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
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Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.

Linear Address Spaces
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Linear Address Spaces

Unsafe at any speed.

FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware
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FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware

Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.

The Keys to the Kingdom
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The Keys to the Kingdom

A deleted private key, a looming deadline, and a last chance to patch a new static root of trust into the bootloader.

Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
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Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter

Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.

The Software Industry Is <i>Still</i> the Problem
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem

The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.

Lamboozling Attackers
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Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception

Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.

Federated Learning and Privacy
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Federated Learning and Privacy

Building privacy-preserving systems for machine learning and data science on decentralized data.
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