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

Is the NFT market crumbling? Those in the NFT arena say that if there is a downturn, it's a welcome one.

The FBI has tied the recent Axie Infinity Ronin sidechain hack to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus.

Now, let me give you a little background before we dive into the thick of this story. I'm a tech savvy person.

Organizers at the store have teamed up with Workers United, a labor union that supported Starbucks employees in their recent efforts.

Raider gains voting rights over digital currency and uses them to transfer contents of treasury

A policy proposed by Vancouver city hall would charge gas stations and parking lots $10,000 per year for failing to provide charging stations for electric vehicles at their facilities.

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In the 1980s, Mead and Conway democratized chip design and high-level language programming surpassed assembly language programming, which made instruction set advances viable. Innovations like Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), superscalar…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but to do that, its instruments first need to get cold—really cold. On April 7, Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument ...

ProPublica’s Justin Elliot on how Intuit built its TurboTax empire.

It’s actually okay to be a 1x programmer. Or even a 0.7x programmer.
Programming is a tool, little more
It’s absolutely fine to treat programming like a tool, rather than something that has value in...

The ultimate Trip To The Seaside Where Everything Went Wrong.

Squares do it, triangles do it, even hexagons do it — but pentagons don't. They just won't fit together to tile a flat surface. So are there any tilings based on fiveness? Craig Kaplan takes us through the five-fold tiling problem and uncovers some interesting…