Internet-wide research on the security posture of databases exposed on the internet. This blog contains all the specifics and analysis of results.

Brickit is an app that scans your pile of bricks, identifies every piece in it, gives you ideas what to build with them with step-by-step instructions and lets you share the things you make with other enthusiasts.

Two inmates swap making meth for making yoghurt, and turn their product into a prison trading commodity so popular that yoghurt culture is smuggled between prisons.  

China emulated US techniques to construct novel coronaviruses in unsafe conditions.

In the early 1960s, General Electric developed a technology called thin-film electronics. 1 These circuits were built from thin films of ...

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Born from the Boston BBS scene of the 1980s, the L0pht emerged in the 1990s as one of the more influential hacker groups ever and helped spawn the security industry as we know it today.

This is a design report – a story about the tradeoffs and challenges that we encountered while building a medium-complexity React component in TypeScript. These include
state modeling (“making illegal states unrepresentable”) basic type…

The REvil ransomware gang appears to have gained access to the infrastructure of Kaseya, a provider of remote management solutions, and is using a malicious update for the VSA software to deploy ransomware to companies across the world.

Digital rodents and abandoned Pokemon presided over the streets of Bagram Airfield on the day news broke that U.S. troops had left the base. 

Almost 90 years ago, Japanese soldiers occupying northern China forced a Chinese man to help build a bridge across the Songhua River in Harbin. While his supervisors weren't looking, he found a treasure buried in the riverbank: a remarkably complete human…

Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.

Youngsters are being bullied over their name - also the default wake word for the tech firm's smart speakers.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the site of last week's deadly collapse in South Florida.

A cyber-security firm says it believes the Russia-linked REvil ransomware gang is responsible.

A Japanese botanist thinks the answer is “yes”

On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your…