The long read: Once hailed as a ‘handsome’ import, this most rampant of plants has come to be seen as a sinister, ruinous enemy. Can it be stopped?

“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users…

Archaeologists discovered engraved depictions of massive animal traps that date back 9,000 years.

For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always be unstable.

Europe's standards bodies have no functional relationships with Open Source charities and do not consult them.

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Notes about creative coding on the Web.

How HTTP Streaming can improve page performance and how Airbnb enabled it on an existing codebase

Exclusive: Slow response times and high cost of parts make program unviable, third-party repairers say

Envision a future where every student can read all the code of a teaching operating system. - yhzhang0128/egos-2000

A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others

Regulator set to impose record fine for GDPR-related issues

Zero to 60 mph is laughably fast, but zero to 100 mph in 3.21 seconds is borderline incomprehensible for a street-legal car.

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.