Google plans to combine the team working on the mapping service Waze with the group overseeing the company’s Maps product, as the search giant faces pressure to streamline operations and cut costs.

There will come a point in time during your time administering a Linux server
where you will want to perform a job on a schedule. Perhaps you want to rotate
some TLS certificates before they expire, or delete old files that are no longer
needed. Typically…

Understanding Google's Zanzibar paper the way the Authzed team does.

Our industry deserves a complete retrospective into the incidents behind the criminal case against Uber’s former Chief Security Officer.

I thought it would be interesting to see whether ChatGPT could solve some basic ciphers (Caesar, Vignere, etc.). I decided to start at the bottom, with perhaps the easiest possible cipher: rot13. I asked it to decode the rot-13 encoding of “Why did the chicken…

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Palaeontologists who visited a remote property to investigate reports of a large fossil have confirmed a discovery dating back 100 million years.

Telemetry is now opt-in in Warp, and we introduced a network log panel.

Cigarette filters produced for Kent Micronite from 1952-1954 contained crocidolite asbestos fibers, the most hazardous of the six types of asbestos.

Nature - Vaccinated people express discriminatory attitudes towards unvaccinated individuals across cultures.

My first attempt at recovering teletext pages from VHS cassette tapes.

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Nature Medicine - Using data from wearable activity monitors, this study shows that short bursts of physical activity that are done as part of daily life activities and that are only 1 or...

THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.

TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.

The story of PostScript has many facets. It is a story about profound changes in human literacy as well as a story of trade secrets within source code. It is a story about the importance of teams and of geometry. And it is a story of the motivations and educations…

A growing chorus of architects argue we have to build differently with concrete — which contributes to global warming and environmental destruction on a scale that’s hard to fathom — or perhaps abandon it altogether.