Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”

Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages…

The genome-edited cattle were bred to endure climate change, and their offspring will be used in meat production.

Cortisol, the “stress hormone,” alters brain activity in regions linked to social decision making, reducing altruistic behavior.

An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.

Patrick's Parabox - think outside the box in this mind-bending recursive puzzle game! Gameplay Video: youtube.com/watch?v=dXre35… Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Pa… by #gamedev @clockworkpat #gaming #indiegames #indiedev #PatricksParabox

Using time series panels and Grafana Live streaming, Doom fans can now pursue total annihilation on Grafana.

When discussing scams and social engineering attacks, it's easy for security experts to imply the victims of these attacks should have known better. And, as much as we may like to think we'd handle these situations so much better, that's just not true.

It began as a whim: talk to a physicist, $50 per 20 minutes. But those ‘crackpots’ taught me something about my subject

Explore the capital of ancient Persia at its height during the reign of King Xerxes. A new immersive web experience from Getty.

Update: 2022-04-15
I typically average around 100 unique visitors to this site per day. Below is a screenshot from my Plausible analytics setup showing the traffic spike up to almost 14k unique visitors from HackerNews (and other sources).


Update: 2022…

You have probably done it already a few times today. Paused to remember a password, a shopping list, a phone number, or maybe the score to last night’s ballgame. The ability to store and recall nee…

We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.

Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.

What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.

Strength training for your breathing muscles? Daily High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training lowers blood pressure and improves vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?