An app for scaring away malware

With its legislative proposal known as “Chat Control,” the EU Commission is trying to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus of Orwellian proportions in the European Union. If EU citizens don’t stand up for privacy now, it may be too late.

My quest for high-powered ARM development boards has progressed a bit spottily over the past few weeks, but after almost three months of tes...

The Decompilation Wiki is a categorized information hub for works and applications of decompilation.

If trends continue, language models will fully utilize the stock of human-generated public text between 2026 and 2032.

Malaysian leader criticises ‘Western narrative’ about Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is a new hardware feature introduced in ARMv8.5-A architecture, aiming to detect memory corruption vulnerabilities. The low overhead of MTE makes it an...

Jonathan Haidt talks to Noema about “The Anxious Generation” and how technology is upending democracy.

The European Union debates a new law that could force platforms to scan all private messages for signs of child abuse. Its most prominent advocate is the actor Ashton Kutcher.

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Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for

In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality:
Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.…

Earning a decent, reliable income as a social-media creator is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about sponsorship deals. A possible TikTok ban is adding to anxiety over job stability.

A century after George Mallory’s disappearance on Everest, why do his words, “Because it’s there,” remain an indelible explanation for the human obsession with high places?

What if the internet were public interest technology? Is that too wildly speculative? I think not. I am not talking about a utopian project here — a public interest internet would be a glorious imperfect mess and it would be far from problem-free. But while…