Google uses search takedowns to "moderate" users' privately saved links collections, used by some as bookmarks.

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

Inside Axon, the maker of Taser electroshock guns, workers take hits from the company’s weapons or get inked with its logos. Axon says it’s all voluntary.

How a team of spies in Mexico got their hands on Russia's space secrets—and tried to change the course of the Cold War.

The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access

Let’s make Chess more fun in Single-Player.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are the go-to model for learning functions from data, such as image classifiers or language models.

Russia's Cinema Fund says it opposes piracy, in part due to “reputational risks." A furious cinema chief says the country needs pirated Barbie.

Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.

So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled…

An operating system kernel for RISC-V and AArch64 SBCs - zyedidia/multiplix

Kunal Kamra and T.M. Krishna are rare public figures in India challenging tech laws they say curb freedom of speech and expression

Iowa City Public Library, Vernon Area Public Library, and others have been targets of bomb threats this week.