Ruby 2.6.0p0 has a sneaky HTTP related bug

#432 — January 10, 2019

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Exploring a Critical Net::Protocol Issue in Ruby 2.6.0p0— It seems Ruby 2.6.0p0 introduced a serious bug if you do any HTTP communication from Ruby (using libraries like Net::HTTP, say) where certain payloads are getting corrupted. Luckily, a fix is in but we await a new official release so you may want to put off your production upgrades just for now.

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TensorStream: Bringing Machine Learning to Ruby— A pure Ruby machine learning framework that’s inspired by TensorFlow but doesn’t require you to get involved with Python at any stage. (Though if you want to use regular TensorFlow, there’s tensorflow.rb too.)

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