Once perceived as solitary creatures that focused solely on feeding their towering bodies, new research says that giraffes have been misunderstood and are in fact a highly complex and social species.

A pair of researchers has shown that trying to classify groups of numbers called “torsion-free abelian groups” is as hard as it can possibly be.

Imperial College London researchers also find that drinking coffee protects against liver cancer

Get a primer on PostgreSQL aggregation, how PostgreSQL’s implementation inspired us as we built TimescaleDB hyperfunctions and its integrations with advanced TimescaleDB features – and what this means for developers.

More than 90 per cent adults in England now have coronavirus antibodies, with rising immunity levels helping to drive cases down.

Amazon previously said it expected most of its employees to begin returning regularly to the office the week of Sept. 7.

End-to-end encryption and mutual authentication for distributed applications. - ockam/documentation/use-cases/end-to-end-encryption-through-kafka at develop · ockam-network/ockam

In late June, Unity quietly updated its licensing policy requirements for developers working on “closed platforms” like Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Google Stadia. Unity developers starting new projects will now need either a Unity Pro license…

Expanded Protections for Children

An interview with Professor LeCun about his early days in AI research during the 80s and recent developments in self-supervised learning for computer vision

Nature Climate Change - The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is currently strong, but transition to its weak mode could see significant changes in the climate system. This work...

Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you

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The owner reports his father-in-law unwittingly bought the upgrade which automatically charged his credit card.

GitHub Next Project: How can we “fingerprint” a codebase to see its structure at a glance? Let’s explore ways to automatically visualize a GitHub repo, and how that could be useful.

What is SAML? Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.
Source: Wikipedia
SAML is often used for single-sign on (“Sign in with Google”, “Sign in with Twitter” etc.).…

In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say

Tea Party Patriots’ web database contained only a small fraction of the “3 million patriots” it heralds on its site.