From "sneaking" to "forced action", explore the various types of deceptive patterns used by companies to mislead and trick users, and gain insights on how to protect yourself.

Nature Human Behaviour - Using data from over one million people, von Krause et al. show that mental speed in a decision task remains steady up to age 60, and that slowing response times before...

It’s limited to 5 Gb/s, giving read rates of about 400 MB/s and writes at about 430 MB/s. Fine for Time Machine backups, but bad with NVMe drives.

Today, I would like to discuss a project that I care very deeply about: the musl libc. One of the most controversial and long-standing debates in the musl community is that musl does not define a p…

The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament, Catalan Presidents, legislators, jurists, and members of…

However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science.

Will's face cleared up after he realised he was being exposed to the thing he was allergic to every single day

The idea that we should eat three meals a day is surprisingly modern. How many meals a day is best for our health?

Spam texts, calls and emails are all on the rise.

ProtonMail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive all passed security audits conducted by the IT security firm Securitum.

A self-hosted, customizable and ad-free Google Search experience - dan-lovelace/giggle

Robert A. Mccutcheon, The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers, Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 100-117

7-Zip through 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution when a file with the .7z extension is dragged to the Help>Contents area. - kagancapar/CVE-2022-29072

Far-right wing website InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.

So did you know that no-one really knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system today actually works? I have been bored and kind of sick for the past 2 days so here is a quick thread on Hall thruster physics: 1/

From deep-sea fish to fireflies, dozens of organisms use bioluminescence to help themselves be seen in the natural world. But can we harness them to light our towns and cities?

To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability. Too often, our discussion of Big Tech’s dominance starts and ends with…

Daemon has an interesting usage in computing. From my local dictionary:
a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not