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Threads has entered the fediverse

Engineering at Meta

As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from the fediverse.

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Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Engineering at Meta

By using the same backend for Threads, we could leverage a lot of the existing tech stack for Threads and reuse most of our existing data models, business logic, security features, and server infrastructure. That’s because email is interoperable and these two companies both conform to the SMTP protocol for delivering emails.

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

These malware families – including Ducktail, NodeStealer and newer malware posing as ChatGPT and other similar tools – targeted people through malicious browser extensions, ads, and various social media platforms with an aim to run unauthorized ads from compromised business accounts across the internet.

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Scott's Weblog

Servers/Hardware Bryan Cantrill shares some thoughts on why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel. Career/Soft Skills Does social media count as a soft skill? I’m going to say “Yes” so that I can put Virginia Craft’s article on how to quit mainstream social media and join Mastodon in this section.

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Perhaps you want to know if the traffic you are investigating is related to video streaming, voice or social media. If you are thinking that those represent HTTP and HTTPS, you would be largely correct, but that doesn’t mean it’s traffic involving web servers. Lots of applications use these ports today, including DNS lookups and email.

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What is a TCP Port: Different Between TCP and UDP Ports

NW Kings

A TCP port is a unique number assigned to specific services and applications that run on a server. It serves as an endpoint for communication between a client and the server, allowing different communication processes over a network. This combination directs network traffic to the appropriate service or application running on a server.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). CDN Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of servers that serve cached copies of web content.

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