HTTP/3 builds on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and is already being used by prominent internet companies such as Google and Facebook. If you’re using Chrome and connecting to a Google service, you’re probably already using QUIC.
Source: What Is HTTP/3 - Lowdown on the Fast New UDP-Based Protocol, an article by Tonino Jankov.
Akamai security researchers discovered Panchan, a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that emerged in March 2022 and has been actively breaching Linux servers since.
Source: Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!”, an article by Stiv Kupchik.
Web scraping describes the various techniques employed in extracting data from websites. More often than not, this is done programmatically using tiny programs called spiders. However, web scraping offers insidious challenges and obstacles that might not be immediately obvious. One of them is issues with data validity.
The Original Sin of Rust async programming is making it multi-threaded by default. If premature optimization is the root of all evil, this is the mother of all premature optimizations, and it curses all your code with the unholy
Send + 'static, or worse yetSend + Sync + 'static, which just kills all the joy of actually writing Rust.
Source: Local Async Executors and Why They Should be the Default, an article by Maciej Hirsz.