Six @shitoberfest spam PRs to the HTML Standard after one day of October... I was hopeful the new opt-in model might save us, but no, DigitalOcean continues bringing the pain. github.com/whatwg/html/pu…

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

A new law marked a sweeping victory for the senior care home industry in its quiet battle with the state's fire departments.

Don’t get me wrong — I like generics, and I’m excited to see what impact they will have on the Go language and its libraries. However, it…

Trying to stem the tsunami of fake news was like battling the Hydra — every time we cut off a virtual head, two more would grow in its place.

Everyone has heard of Urbit, but nobody really knows what it is. This makes it a point of fascination in tech circles. Here’s a cypherpunk project with grand ambitions that has been worked on for nearly twenty years, funded by Silicon Valley luminaries. Formerly…

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last night.

Builds require a few properties, chief among them reproducibility. I would consider speed to be low on the order of priorities. However, it’s also one of the most limiting factors to your release cycle: if your build takes T, you cannot release faster than…

Just look for these USB-C power rating logos to ease your shopping headaches.

Let's talk about the benefits of Pull Requests and Pair Programming, and my thoughts on these after some years of experience with them.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 was awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"

A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.

Interactive Map: PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 9,552 Sites in 50 States | @ewg |

Having flexed its muscles in predicting kidney injury, toppling Go champions and solving 50-year-old science problems, artificial intelligence company DeepMind is now dipping its toes in weather forecasting. The company's latest tool is designed to predict…

What the Earth would look like if the sea level suddenly changed?
And what would be the Moon, Mars and Venus with as much water as on the Earth?
Show this on the following maps and compare our Earth with other
astronomical objects.

World maps. On this…