Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that's been dubbed "PrintNightmare," a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft's…

Facebook's newsletter product won't take a cut of writers' revenue. Some critics see a problem.

Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia, and Aki Vehtari, a computer science professor at Finland’s Aalto University, recently published a list of the most important statistical ideas in the last 50 years. Here, they break it down in easy-to-understand…

Lawmakers and advocates want to give consumers more choice when it comes to fixing devices.

The resort town Ketchum is facing a cascading housing crisis caused by a rush of new residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, growing demand for workers during the economic boom that has followed, and a shortage of affordable homes that was years in the making.

A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains may explain how we can learn so quickly.

We decided to build our own serverless engine, one that would not be limited by existing implementations. The first version of Koyeb was built on top of Kubernetes and allowed us to quickly build a working cloud platform. After a few months of operating…

At Channable we store most of our data in a relational database. Relational databases are an amazing tool. Not only do they reliably store data, they also provide efficient access to the stored data, and they make sure that the data adheres to predefined…

If you are on Instagram, you have been probably bombarded by Instagram Stories and notifications about new features like emojis, chat themes, selfie stickers, and “cross-platform messaging” that will

What happens inside the WiFi Driver on RISC-V BL602... And how we found the incomplete source code for the driver

In our guide to market structure, we talked about all the different “trading centers” in the market – from exchanges to broker dark pools to brokers filling orders directly – and how the total trading in the market is allocated between those venues. 

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