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John Green's new book highlights the history of tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, which the Trump administration’s funding freeze is allowing to spread.

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President Trump’s trade adviser frequently cited Ron Vara, a fictional source who was a critic of China, in his writings.

In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.

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European regulators are considering fining X and making demands for product changes, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

About nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We s…

A maximum severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered impacting all versions of Apache Parquet up to and including 1.15.0.

When people say Rust is a “safe language”, they often mean memory safety.
And while memory safety is a great start, it’s far from all it takes to build robust applications.
Memory safety is necessary but not sufficient for overall r…

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail that runs through three western states is already challenging. Now the grueling journey may become even tougher this year due to federal cuts.

The creator-economy service Gumroad decided to open-source its platform at a suspiciously convenient time. (And even “open source” might be stretching it.)

I’ve tried my best to make sure that this site works great (or at least reasonably well) even without JavaScript, but when JavaScript isn’t available, it can be a little clunky to hide things that do require it. With a mere 7 lines (or a one-liner if you’re…

Google announced that end-to-end encryption would be coming to Gmail. What a sweet day! Finally Google does something good. Is it a new protocol to

This story is about how ClickHouse supports Rust components in the C++ code base and the challenges we had to overcome.

On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…