Officials promised a robust review process before forgiving PPP loans, but most loans could be forgiven with a simple, one-page form. Meanwhile, just 2% of loans have gotten close, hands-on reviews.

A static verifier for Rust, based on the Viper verification infrastructure. - viperproject/prusti-dev

Here’s an observation that’s mathematically trivial but might not be widely appreciated. In kindergarten, we all learned Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem, which given a formal…

SecureDrop 2.5.0 is scheduled to be released on Oct 18, 2022. We will send out another notification through this blog, Twitter, Mastodon, and the support portal when the release is live. Changes that journalists and administrators should be aware of are summarized…

Can Stripe actually use Stripe Billing to manage subnoscriptions and invoice its customers? We conducted the experiment.

The Federal Trade Commission’s officials traded stocks and funds more than those at any other major agency, including going heavily into tech shares, The Wall Street Journal found.

Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

Nature - Videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas, but videoconferencing groups are as effective as (or perhaps even more effective than) in-person groups at deciding which ideas...

In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. “It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written,” said one mathematician.

Names of Nick Clegg and Nicola Mendelsohn mistakenly not redacted.

As a long-time Hacker News reader, I've seen trends come and go. One of those trends is popularity of programming languages, manifested t...

I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come…