Oracle claims to have amassed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue. ICCL's Dr Johnny Ryan is a lead plaintiff in a new U.S. class action to stop its global…

It is very hard for the average resident of a U.S. city to know what’s going on with their civic government. It’s even harder for them to get any

Google Chrome is adding support for a built-in RSS feed reader on desktop and ChromeOS. Here's how to enable it.

Apple is running out of ideas and needs your help.

Except for a handful of companies who send people to Mars or develop AGI, most startups don’t seem to offer a good reason to join them. You go to their websites and all you see is vague, baseless, overly generic mission-schmission/values-schvalues HR nonsense…

A former Twitter Inc security chief has alleged that the Indian government forced the social media firm to put a government agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with U.S. regulators.

Here's a paper that comes under the heading of "so odd that it can't be passed over". The authors are looking at octafluorocubane, shown at right, because it is predicted to have the ability to hold a free electron in the middle of that cube (!) That's because…

Python’s still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills

I wrote last year about my experience with making my first PCB using JLCPCB. I’ve now got 5 of the boards in production around my house, and another couple assembled on my desk for testing. I also did a much simpler board to mount a GPS module on my MapleBoard…

The noscript of this blog is a quote from James Clear’s Atomic Habits book. The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day. If that’s the case (and I…

How we used Elixir's Observer to chase down and fix some puzzling runtime issues.

12 days after depositing mushroom cells on their wood chip substrate, the mycelia are ready to be “harvested.”

Investors bought nearly a quarter of U.S. single-family homes that sold last year, often driving up rents for suburban families in the process. The issue is especially acute in some Sun Belt states amid evidence that investors often can outbid other buyers…

GitHub now supports SSH commit verification, so you can sign commits and tags locally using a self-generated SSH public key, which will give others confidence about the origin of a…

For the first time, I won a major raffle at a recent conference. However, I had to give the prize back since it was a beer dispenser and I don’t drink. If your reaction after reading the last line was “Why don’t you drink?” or “Most of us do and it’s your…