Retailers are spending millions a year to combat organized rings that steal from their stores in bulk and peddle the goods online, often on Amazon. It is a menace that has been supercharged by the rapid recent boom in online commerce.

A new RNA breakthrough is allowing plants to yield dramatically more crops and increase drought tolerance, which could have an impact on food scarcity and production as climate change threatens ecosystems. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein…

The tech giant plans to make improvements to software that aimed to report collections of sexually exploitative images of children, amid a backlash from critics concerned about privacy erosion.

The story here, for those who may have forgotten 2015 (it was a long time ago!) is that the NSA inserted a backdoor into a major encryption standard and then leaned on manufacturers to install it. Thread. 1/

"When, last September, it became possible that concerns raised in 2007 might have merit as part of a strategy of exploitation, NIST as the...

A new promo message for Microsoft Teams broke the Windows desktop shell and the taskbar for Windows 11 Insider users. Why can cloud services break Windows PCs?

For some years now I've been baffled by the desktop vs. web font licensing, but for the better part of those years I thought and hoped things will turn

Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either hired for an internal job or had not applied for a new job at all, ILR School research finds.

Coordinating a large product org is hard.

I recently got into general-purpose zero-knowledge proof systems (cryptographic primitives that allow you to prove the execution of a program without revealing some of the inputs), specifically the state-of-the-art PLONK proof system. This is a series of…

OCE economists and their collaborators conduct a variety of policy relevant research and make their preliminary findings available as working papers.

Learn how to build an automated mushroom cultivation system as well as cultivate mushrooms, with a Raspberry Pi Zero and my open source software Mycodo. I walk through the process from foraging wild mushrooms, developing a laminar flow hood and environmental…

Mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2021-26084 is ongoing and expected to accelerate. Please patch immediately if you haven’t already— this cannot wait until after the weekend.

It’s hard to keep up with the ever-growing body of literature on the opioid crisis, which has killed nearly as many Americans in the last two decades as the Civil War and is still getting worse. We…