a Linux VM mounting a JS filesystem with a Service Worker web server.

Bad merger policy is why wealth and power is so consolidated in America. But last month, two government enforcers started to turn the table on the monopolies who run our economy.

By now, most readers are likely to be familiar with the Polkit vulnerability known as CVE-2021-4034.
The fix for Polkit is relatively straightforward and is being rolled out
across the net. The root of this problem, though, lies in a
misunderstanding about…

The Pacific nation's audacious bid to become the world's first dark sky nation might provide a blueprint for the rest of the world.

The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer in 1980s pop music. It uses a technique called FM synthesis to produ...

After years of rumours and reports, Rockstar has confirmed it's working on a new Grand Theft Auto game, and said that it's "well underway".

Nature - US kitchen appliances that burn natural gas emit much more methane than previously realized.

The tiny aircraft was engineered by a team of students at the University of Maryland.

Five proposed rules to make sure you’re using analogies for good

In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact…

Scientist blows whistle on prominent co-author: “I don’t want to deal with this alone anymore”

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I knew I'd be making this post one day, and I figured it would make me sad, I was wrong about the latter. The last 24 hours have been some of the most horrible