The planned chat control makes the world less secure and more authoritarian, as it is directed against private and encrypted communication. Proponents are using disinformation, lies, and sleight of hand to push through the project. But chat control can still…

IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert

Java 17 vs Java 8: ultimate guide to new features

FOR more than three hours on a fine, calm August morning in 1955, the eyes of Sydney’s suburbia were fixed skyward, anxiously watching the flight of a pilotless Auster aeroplane

Autonomous vehicle companies won two key regulatory battles that allow Waymo to move...

Explore how will your city feel in the future.

Virginia Hislop receives a master’s degree in the 2024 diploma ceremony at the age of 105.

The basic text model of PDF is quite nice. On the other hand its basic design was a very late 80s "ASCII is everything everyone really needs...

Say their name if you think they aren't listening. In a meeting with five or more humans, it's ok if someone checks out of part of the conversation. Not every topic is of equal interest to all humans. When you know the conversation is steering back to a human…

AI analysis of satellite imagery data is a new method for estimating population size.

An extensible framework for Personal Data Management. - mayneyao/eidos

Serendipity without physical proximity? Maybe, maybe not.

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Why do we call electrons 'negative' and protons 'positive'? It's an arbitrary convention but it's annoying: it means that when electrons flow through wires, the current is defined to flow in the OTHER DIRECTION.

If you ask people…

Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

The Ontario Science Centre is shutting down immediately as an engineering report commissioned by the province shows the roof could collapse — but while it could be fixed at a cost, the province is choosing to shutter the location indefinitely.

Governor Hochul signed nation-leading legislation to combat addictive social media feeds and protect kids online. 

SVG, short for <em>“scalable
vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics.
In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems
are and suggest what could be done to improve things.

What am I even paying for?

People tend to get pretty passionate about Git workflows on different online forums. Some
like to rebase, while others prefer to keep the disorganized records. Some dislike the extra
merge commit, while others love to preserve all the historical artifacts.…