Internet Storm Center Diary 2024-08-19, Author: Johannes Ullrich

Proposed safety limits for a toxic pesticide used on salmon farms have been made 23 times weaker after behind-the-scenes pressure from the industry.

Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more

I was testing Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta update last night (v11.4.7), and a new aggressive bug has nearly...

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?

The Postal Service is offering salary advances via money order as a workaround

Extract an RSS feed from iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, a blog and many more

How did a six second drum sample go on to inspire entire sub-genres of music? Let's examine the history of the Amen Break.

Last year, Google preemptively blocked hundreds of millions of URLs before they were indexed by the search engine.

A deep dive into the theoretical framework and the technical implementation of a text CRDT.

How to write correct code by construction using the Coq Proof Assistant

How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid

Stoker was moved by grim details from the world around him while penning his horror masterpiece. The real fate of a ship called the Dmitry played an outsized role in his imaginings.

Foxconn is selling two buildings in Wisconsin, which have remained mostly empty since they were originally purchased for its plans to bring production to the US.

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Air quality—climate forcing double whammy from domestic firelighters

Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists…

Low taxes and a promising tech sector drew California tech workers to Austin. Now some...