Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, fixed a major flaw that would have permitted an illegal and continuous creation of ETH tokens.  According to sources,

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Nature - A scourge that once infected millions of the world’s poorest people is close to being wiped out in humans — but infections in animals complicates the picture.

Nature - Super-centenarians offer clues as demographers and scientists lock horns over one of the world’s oldest research questions.

@_msw_ @AWSOpen (and 3 others) A minor nit: Rust didn't start "as a research project at Mozilla in 2010". It started as a personal project (on my own laptop, on my own time) in 2006. It was a small but real 17kloc native compiler for linux, mac and windows…

The 'off-ramps' from crypto—that is, the firms who will exchange your cryptocurrencies back into traditional currencies—are increasingly taking the position that is so common in discussions about privacy: 'if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have…

Full-blown virtual machines with the KVM hypervisor (near-native performance) on Pixel 6 + Android 13 DP1

I’m a data scientist/software developer and I keep longing for a simpler life. I’m getting tired of the constant need to keep up to date, just to...

Voters have agreed to limit advertising for tobacco products that may be seen by young people in Switzerland.

A handful of scientists have started to train their ears to the worms, grubs and roots underground. They were not prepared for what they heard.