Although proponents of secret science like to focus on examples in which it has benefited society, insiders from the very beginning of the Cold War worried that the best minds would not be drawn to…

You may have heard by now that the olive oil in your kitchen cupboard may be an impostor. After a 2010 report found that 69 percent of imported olive oil in the…

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This is a request to restore the base64::encode and base64::decode convenience functions deprecated in the 0.21.0 release. Normally I agree with explicit being better than implicit, but I don't...

Charlotte Sena, 9, was located after a round-the-clock hunt aided by the suspect's ransom note.

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Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…

Sam Bankman-Fried lives his life by a calculus of altruistic impact. By Adam Fisher.

Last year, an Airbnb guest at a luxury studio in Brentwood refused to check out after her scheduled stay ended. She hasn't paid rent in more than 500 days.

Estonia became a global hotspot for crypto companies. We discovered dozens of cases of massive fraud, money laundering, sanctions evasion

Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions from their product!

Algora is a developer tool & community simplifying bounties, hiring & open source sustainability.

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Today we’re publishing Ferrocene, the Rust compiler for safety-critical and cyber-security use, as an open source project. After 2 years of work, we feel ready to make it available - but also fully open source under the classic Rust license: Apache...

Starcraft 2 Protocol Replay Reader. Contribute to sebosp/s2protocol-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Climate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren’t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we're incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I’m here to tell…

Instagram, Messenger AI feature goes viral for bizarre user-created stickers.