papad Hard to believe Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” Christos Papadimitriou calls it “so hard to believe…

Audacity, the well-known open-source audio-editing software, has been called spyware in a report, with privacy policy changes revealing the tool is collecting data on its users and sharing it with other firms, as well as sending the data to Russia.

Product validation frameworks often describe processes without talking about taste. Here's why this is almost always a bad idea.

When people undergo a great trauma or other unsettling event—they have lost a job or a loved one dies, for example—their understanding of themselves or of

The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence



The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content - generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The…

You can permanently disable any iOS device's WiFI by hosting a public WiFi named %secretclub%power Resetting network settings is not guaranteed to restore functionality. #infosec #0day

Intro The goal of this tutorial is to describe Python development ecosystem. It can be helpful for someone coming to Python from another programming language.
They say that you should stick to algorithms and data structures, that you can learn a new language…

Is hydrogen propulsion the future? How does a fuel cell work? Are there any risks? In this article, a hydrogen propulsion expert from BMW will answer these questions and more.

📜 33 JavaScript concepts every developer should know. - leonardomso/33-js-concepts

Bitcoin’s proof-of-work protocol is only the first among a range of creative possibilities

Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more

Senior foreign executives of major telecommunications firms in Myanmar have been told by the junta that they must not leave the country without permission, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

When everyday life becomes a struggle for survival

In tackling machine learning (and computer science in general) we face some deep philosophical questions. Questions like, “What does it mean to learn?” and, “Can a computer learn?” and, “How do you define simplicity?” and, “Why does Occam’s Razor work? (Why…

A combination of approaches, including uterus transplantation and the joining of two animals’ circulatory systems, allowed males to bear pups, according to a preprint. But some experts say the experiments were not justified.  

A new predictive autoscaling capability lets you add additional Compute Engine VMs in anticipation of forecasted demand.