Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action

John Binns said he managed to pierce T-Mobile’s defenses after discovering in July an unprotected router exposed on the internet. The 21-year-old said he did it to gain attention: “Generating noise was one goal.”

The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev

Today, we are announcing that we will invest $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen cybersecurity.

Caltech scientists used X-ray imaging to capture physics of underground anthills.

A computer glitch in a software program, Palantir, used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year.

A restaurant critic and two chefs go on a pie-in-the-sky adventure to find exactly how far you can stretch the idea of pizza.

Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.

Optimistic Locking is a control method that assumes multiple transactions can complete concurrently without conflict. We built our ledgers API with concurrency control semantics to better manage transaction volume.

(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’21) – China has called its policies in occupied Tibet not only a great success but also an exemplar for other minority regions in a major publication released on Aug 26 to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist…

Back when we were introducing error handling for Swift, I raised the concern that the rule requiring a try label on every potentially-throwing statement was too indiscriminate. It's not that requiring a try label is always a mistake, I argued—in fact, in…

A new head has been appointed to the UK data regulator amid a plan to drive the economy using data.

Say goodbye to Groovy on August 30.

The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default. This page explains why that is important. An operating system in your best interests The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default, not Android. It is the only smartphone on the market today to ship with a fully-free…

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a tim…

Philip Womack In Praise of the Lesser Known Siblings of Mythology   When fossicking through the cornucopia of classical mythology, we tend to stop and savour the meaty, intergenerational conflicts. The Titan Cronus overthrows his father, Uranus, scything…

What’s the piece of technology that reduced your headache the most in the last year?

For me, it’d be Portal Windows. It's a library we made at Tandem that lets you render and position native windows as simply as you render and position tooltips in your React…