Abstract: Raft is a foundational consensus protocol for distributed systems, architected to ensure state machine replication and data consistency across machine clusters. However, traditional Raft ...

MicroRaft is a feature-complete and stable open-source implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Java. It is a single lightweight JAR file of a few hundred KBs of size. It can be used for ...

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Migrants in Australia often encounter disinformation targeting their communities. However, disinformation circulated in non-English languages and within private chat groups often falls beyond the ...

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A short video clip of a Finnish ethical hacker using a USB stick to hack an election voting machine is being hyped by right-wing figures as proof that the US presidential election could be stolen. But ...

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Abstract: Leader election is an important problem in distributed computing systems. In this problem, when the leader is crashed, other nodes must elect another leader. Garcia-Molinapsilas Bully ...