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French tax data hackers claim theft of Education Ministry info on millions of students

The group known as 'ZeroBytes,' which had claimed responsibility for stealing tax data from France's tax authority, said it had also obtained files concerning millions of students and tens of thousands of teachers.

French tax data hackers claim theft of Education Ministry info on millions of students

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Why Go's encoding/csv Burns 540MB on 5M Rows (and How I Fixed It)

TL;DR: Go's built-in encoding/csv.Read() allocates string slices and strings for every single row, generating 10M+ allocations and burning 540 MB on a 5M-row file.

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