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As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately joined Google, and even personally got kudos from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Kimball and Mattis quickly rose to prominence within the company, and then chose to leave it […]

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. Despite the geopolitical headwinds for foreign tech firms to enter China, many companies, especially those that find a dependable partner, are still forging ahead. For this […]

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices […]

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Let's start with an announcement: SciPy now builds with Meson on Linux, and the full test suite passes! This is a pretty exciting milestone, and good news for SciPy maintainers and contributors - they can look forward to much faster builds and a more pleasant development experience. So how fast is it? Currently the build takes about 1min 50s (a ~4x improvement) on my 3 year old 12-core Intel CPU (i9-7920X @ 2.90GHz): Profiling result of a parallel build (12 jobs) of SciPy with Meson. Visualization created with ninjatracing and Perfetto. As you can see from the tracing results, building a single C++ file (bsr.cxx, which is one of SciPy's sparse matrix formats) takes over 90 seconds. So the 1min 50 sec build time is close to optimal - the only ways to improve it are major surgery on that C++ code, or buying a faster CPU. Read more… (14 min remaining to read)

 You know when they ask you in interviews "What is your most embarrassing mistake" ? Well I always lie and mutter something that I think they want to hear and a false cringe on the face to add dash of believability into the whole story. It's false. That is not my most embarrassing mistake. The most embarrassing mistake I have ever done in my life happened before I was even working. I think this was in the 90s. It was the days life was simpler. Mom had her wits with her, before Dementia stole her memories and I could talk with her and dad was still alive. Out of all my school mates I guess I was one of the privilege few who had enough money to join a sports club after school. It was something like paid tuition for badminton. It was called "Pioneer Badminton Club" and we had a coach that taught us badminton. We played mostly during the weekends on "proper badminton playing skills". Coach was this like older guy who was very passionate in badminton and read many books on the subject. He was like the authority in badminton for me. We played in this really spartan place which could easily be used a sauna on hot days and it had another name called the "Green House". Although it was town area but it was situated in a kind of rural part of town so we got to experience what it was like playing badminton in a place situated almost like in the middle of a full blown jungle. The place was owned by this family who also played Badminton at this place. 2 girls and a guy. They were really good too. I used to have a crush on the older sister. She looked demure and slender. I liked her and she was part of my boyhood fantasies. Anyway, back to this story, they are only the co-stars of today's story. The main actor (protagonist of antagonist depending on which side you are staring this tunnel from) is the older brother of the family who played both the part of the senior patriarch of the family. He is a truck driver and he is one of those guys that really look the part. Picture an older Chinese guy with the steely gaze of Ironside, not to mention his fiery temper and you will be in the same ball park as me. Anyway, I used to practice Badminton with a whole bunch of other guys at this place every Saturday and Sunday and the coach used to come to my house to pick me up. Although it was hot and sweaty, I welcomed the change of pace and scenery it injected into my bored teenage life every week. There were four courts in this place and usually 2 of the courts would be used by our club. We had like almost 40 students at one point so this guaranteed that there will always be some guys who are not playing or training at one time. Those of us are who are "benched" in these intervals would gather outside the court and bond with each other as only teenagers knew how, calling each other names and playing stupid punky pranks on each other. It was a idillic, simple and happy life. Funny how the Little did I know that pretty soon all this would almost come crashing down right in front of my eyes. 

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2021-07-24 18:37:56 GMTset of sets and "in" operator - [7/2]Mypy complains about __setitem__ signature - [6/2]Adding level 2 index as a sum of other indexes with a condition - [6/2]CUDA out of memory error, cannot reduce batch size - [5/2]obtain corresponding values from 3rd column after groupby 2 columns - [5/2]Adding a total per level-2 index in a multiindex pandas dataframe - [5/1]Is there a bug in Python's multiprocess pool leaving defunct processes in spawn mode? - [5/0]Checking if a list contains any one of multiple characters - [4/4]Convert a list into a dict where each key is nested under the next one - [4/4]How to get single median in numpy masked array with even number of entires - [4/3]

Second week passed as fast as the first one, if not faster. This time I dug into more non-trivial issues. While most were around typing, there was also quite a bit of C involved. Also, we were able to close Dennis’ PR to speed up fastsearch.h (bytes.find is now 22%+ faster on real-world data).

 Summary: I have a draft version of a new and arguably better way to display information from friendly for Jupyter labs/notebooks. For now, it only works with the default light theme.The following screen captures illustrate a new way to display the information from friendly inside Jupyter lab/notebooks.  Instead of having to type some commands, the user can click on buttons.  Initially only the error message is shown.Clicking on "More ..." reveals the friendly traceback (notice how the traditional file names are replaced by references to code blocks) and a few more buttons.One can click on individual buttons to show or hide the desired information.Using the default formatter, instead of this new one, works somewhat acceptably with the dark theme.Most unfortunately, the new interactive display just does not pick up the dark theme appropriately; I have not been able to figure out why.Ideally, I would like to be able to use the custom dark theme that I have created to work with Rich, but have not figured out how to do it yet.Anyone having some insights as to how to fix these problems should not hesitate to comment here or on the Github issue.

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The PHP team is pleased to announce the first beta release of PHP 8.1.0, Beta 1. This continues the PHP 8.1 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0 Beta 1 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be Beta 2, planned for Aug 5 2021.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the third testing release of PHP 8.1.0, Alpha 3. This continues the PHP 8.1 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0 Alpha 3 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be Beta 1, planned for Jul 22 2021.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the second testing release of PHP 8.1.0, Alpha 2. This continues the PHP 8.1 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0 Alpha 2 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.The next release will be Alpha 3, planned for 8 Jul 2021.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the first testing release of PHP 8.1.0, Alpha 1. This starts the PHP 8.1 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0 Alpha 1 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.The next release will be Alpha 2, planned for 24 Jun 2021.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

As announced on the php.internals mailing list, a pair of malicious commits were made in the PHP source code repository over the weekend. These commits were immediately noticed and reverted, and thus never reached end users. The investigation into the root cause and exact scope of the compromise is still ongoing, therefore releases will be put on hold for two weeks assuming no further issues are discovered. Thank you for bearing with us while we endeavor to ensure that PHP is a stable and reliable platform for web development.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the eleventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 5. This is an extra unplanned release, but we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however, this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 4. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.464 0.009 0.019 0.020 2 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.180 0.062 0.125 0.125 3 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.135 0.073 0.147 0.147 4 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.364 0.117 0.234 0.234 5 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.392 0.007 0.031 0.033 6 Aruba Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.419 0.007 0.028 0.029 7 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.007 0.559 0.061 0.121 0.121 8 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.243 0.065 0.129 0.129 9 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.200 0.073 0.147 0.147 10 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.320 0.080 0.160 0.161 See full table Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in June 2021, and has come either first or second in the ranking for six consecutive months. The top four sites each had no failed requests, but an average connection time of 9ms gives Rackspace the edge. Rackspace offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 40 data centres across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.

In the June 2021 survey we received responses from 1,213,277,377 sites across 260,108,646 unique domains and 11,098,973 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 5.15 million sites, but a gain of 513,000 domains and 47,100 web-facing computers. nginx experienced the largest gains in web-facing computers and domains this month; despite a large loss of sites. In the web-facing computer metric nginx’s gain of 74,100 (1.86%) was substantially the largest, and resulted in a market share increase of 0.5 percentage points to 36.5%. Its lead in this metric continues to steadily grow, with Apache’s share in second place dropping to 31.7% — a gap of over half a million web-facing computers. LiteSpeed saw the only other notable increase in web-facing computers, with an additional 10,400 (+17.6%) boosting its total to 69,500 web-facing computers. LiteSpeed also gained the 2nd largest number of domains this month, with an increase of 289,000, increasing its total to 5.75 million. Apache suffered the largest loss in domains and active-sites this month, dropping by 597,000 and 886,000 respectively; and was followed by Microsoft with a loss of 203,000 domains and 115,000 active sites. Meanwhile in the web-facing computers and top million busiest sites metrics, Microsoft instead had the largest losses of 21,600 computers and 3,700 of the million busiest sites, followed by Apache with a loss of 15,400 computers and 2,500 of the million busiest sites. Despite its losses in these metrics, Apache continues to power the largest number of active sites with a share of 24.8%, and top-million sites with a share of 25.2%. DeveloperMay 2021PercentJune 2021PercentChange nginx440,997,33636.19%436,536,64335.98%-0.21 Apache314,774,49225.83%316,035,39026.05%0.21 OpenResty73,839,9706.06%74,108,7516.11%0.05 Microsoft60,265,1184.95%56,294,4574.64%-0.31

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.489 0.010 0.022 0.022 2 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.558 0.055 0.110 0.110 3 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.213 0.074 0.148 0.148 4 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.281 0.075 0.150 0.150 5 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.331 0.078 0.157 0.157 6 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.226 0.094 0.189 0.189 7 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.256 0.004 0.023 0.023 8 Aruba Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.449 0.005 0.027 0.028 9 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.216 0.080 0.161 0.161 10 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.149 0.083 0.165 0.165 See full table Rackspace was the most reliable hosting company site in May 2021, taking the top spot for the third time in the past 12 months, and appearing in the top 10 for 10 of the last 12 months. The top six hosting companies all responded to every request from Netcraft, and are ranked by the average connection time. Rackspace had the lowest average connection time of the six, earning it the title of most reliable hosting company site in May 2021. Rackspace offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 40 data centres across five different continents in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In the May 2021 survey we received responses from 1,218,423,991 sites across 259,596,021 unique domains and 11,051,830 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 6.28 million sites and 112,000 computers, but a loss of 4.87 million domains. nginx gained the largest number of hostnames, active sites, and computers this month; but also suffered the largest loss of 4.73 million domains. Its most notable gain was of 78,900 computers (+2.03%), which increased its leading share to 36.0%. It also continues to lead in the hostnames and domains metrics, while Apache is top in active sites. Apache also maintains its lead amongst the top million websites, with a 25.4% share compared to nginx's 22.9%. Cloudflare's share of the top million sites is now up to 17.0% after increasing its presence by a further 3,090 sites, and Microsoft added 1,840 sites to bring its share up to 6.85%. OpenResty saw the largest decrease of 8.10 million hostnames (-9.88%), which has taken its market share down to 6.06% (-0.7 pp). Microsoft also suffered a large loss of 6.92 million sites (-10.3%), which took its share down to 4.95% (-0.6 pp). One of OpenResty's most prominent users is Automattic, which uses it to serve millions of Tumblr microblogging websites that can be found under the tumblr.com domain – for example, icontherecord.tumblr.com. Automattic is also responsible for the popular WordPress.com blogging service, where it instead uses nginx to serve millions of blogs. These WordPress-powered sites can either use custom domain names, or free blogs can be created directly under the wordpress.com domain – for example, catsbeingcats.wordpress.com. The underlying WordPress blogging software reached its 18th birthday this month. Automattic continues to contribute to this open source project, and the software is freely available from wordpress.org, allowing anyone to download and install the software on other compatible web server platforms. Although Apache and nginx are recommended, any server that supports PHP and MySQL ought to be capable of running a WordPress site. Such is the popularity of WordPress, some hosting providers also provide one-click installers and other tools that make it easy to manage WordPress sites. Other vendor and hosting news nginx 1.20.1 stable and nginx 1.21.0 mainline were released on 25 May. Both versions include a fix for a 1-byte memory overwrite vulnerability. NGINX Unit 1.24.0 was released on 27 May. This adds several new features, including SSL/TLS configuration commands, static file chrooting with symlink and mount resolution controls, static file filtering by MIME type, and compatibility with Ruby 3.0. It also includes some bugfixes. Caddy 2.4.0 was released on 10 May, with over 110 patches to resolve bugs and add features likes remote API access, automated identity management and dynamic config loading. Apache Tomcat 10.0.6, 9.0.46 and 8.5.66 were released on 12 May. Version 1.0.0 of the Apache Tomcat Migration Tool for Jakarta EE was released a few days earlier on 7 May – this is the tool that allows Tomcat web applications written in Java EE 8 to be automatically converted to run on Tomcat 10 which implements Jakarta EE 9. To showcase its new architectural paradigm of Workers, WebSockets and Durable Objects, Cloudflare has released a multiplayer Doom port which can be played at https://silentspacemarine.com. This game demonstrates how application code can be run on Cloudflare edge nodes rather than only on a client or server. DeveloperApril 2021PercentMay 2021PercentChange nginx432,167,30235.65%440,997,33636.19%0.54 Apache313,948,74125.90%314,774,49225.83%-0.07 OpenResty81,935,3916.76%73,839,9706.06%-0.70 Microsoft67,182,7405.54%60,265,1184.95%-0.60

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.255 0.003 0.024 0.025 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.479 0.006 0.014 0.015 3 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.211 0.081 0.162 0.162 4 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.227 0.093 0.185 0.186 5 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.258 0.099 0.198 0.198 6 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.006 0.557 0.054 0.109 0.109 7 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.200 0.076 0.152 0.152 8 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.326 0.079 0.158 0.158 9 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.194 0.083 0.167 0.167 10 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.141 0.083 0.167 0.167 See full table Choopa.com had the most reliable hosting company site in April 2021, heading the table for the fifth time in the past 12 months. The top five sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, but Choopa.com’s average connection time of just 3ms wins it the top spot. The host offers a range of services including cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as other facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.

In the April 2021 survey we received responses from 1,212,139,815 sites across 264,469,666 unique domains and 10,939,637 web facing computers. This is an increase of 24,611,866 sites, 1,114,050 domains and 91,955 computers. nginx gained the largest number of sites this month increasing by 12.5 million sites to 432,167,302. This also increases its market share to 35.65%, up 0.32 percentage points. Microsoft last month lost its place as third largest web server developer to OpenResty, this month it continued to lose sites (-3.6M) and market share, dropping 0.42pp to a market share of 5.54%. OpenResty gained 4.1 million sites and 0.21pp market share, while Apache gained 5.4 million sites but lost 0.08pp market share. Looking at domains Apache and OpenResty gained the largest amount, with LiteSpeed and Oracle also seeing increases. OpenResty increased by 467k unique domains (+1.2%), this growth is primarily fueled by its increased use at both Google Cloud and Amazon AWS. Apache gained a similar amount with 426k domains (+0.6%), LiteSpeed gained 52k (+1.0%), and Oracle gained 27k (+3.6%). In contrast, nginx, Microsoft and Google each lost domains, 483k (-0.6%), 331k (-2.2%) and 233k (-9.2%) respectively. In terms of web facing computers nginx gained the largest number with an increase of 59.6k (+1.6%) extending its market lead over Apache to 3.32 percentage points. Apache saw a smaller increase in the number of web facing computers making use of it (8k, +0.2%), this resulted in Apache losing 0.20pp market share. Microsoft lost both absolute numbers of computers, -15.3k (-1.1%), and market share, -0.25pp. Focusing in on the million busiest sites Cloudflare gained 2,721 sites, the only significant gain this month, it is now used by 16.70% of the million busiest sites. nginx and Microsoft saw the largest losses, 1,978 and 1,806 sites respectively, with Apache dropping 608. Other vendor and hosting news nginx version 1.20.0 was released on April 20th; this incorporates the features from the last year of development on the 1.19 mainline branch into a stable release that will not receive further feature updates. Prior to the release of version 1.20.0 the mainline 1.19 branch received a bug fix update on March 30th, and a minor update with features related to keepalives on April 13th. Apache Tomcat major versions 8, 9 and 10 were all updated on April 6th to pick up binaries built with OpenSSL 1.1.1k. Version 7 received a bug fix release on April 26th. DeveloperMarch 2021PercentApril 2021PercentChange nginx419,637,92335.34%432,167,30235.65%0.32 Apache308,509,04225.98%313,948,74125.90%-0.08 OpenResty77,819,4906.55%81,935,3916.76%0.21 Microsoft70,826,3425.96%67,182,7405.54%-0.42

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.348 0.006 0.031 0.033 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.421 0.007 0.017 0.017 3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.285 0.081 0.161 0.161 4 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.212 0.094 0.188 0.188 5 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.011 0.519 0.055 0.110 0.110 6 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.124 0.076 0.151 0.151 7 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.205 0.094 0.188 0.188 8 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.017 0.336 0.110 0.219 0.219 9 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.017 0.381 0.124 0.250 0.250 10 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.023 0.230 0.099 0.199 0.199 See full table In March 2021 GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site, with no failed requests and the fastest average connection time amongst the top 10 of 6ms. GoDaddy provides services that allow customers to build their own web presence, which include hosting solutions, domain registration, and a website builder focused on ease of use. In February, GoDaddy acquired Poynt to accelerate its strategy to provide a complete suite of commerce and payment services. The top three sites each had no failed requests and were separated by average connection time. Rackspace came in second place with an average connection time of 7ms, just 1ms slower than GoDaddy. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations in five continents. CWCS Managed Hosting wraps up the podium places, in third. CWCS supplies a wide range of hosting services from their ISO 27001, ISO 9001 accredited and Cyber Essentials certified UK data centres, powered by 100% renewable energy.

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