Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.

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I love coding. I love writing. I love writing about coding, as evidenced by the archives of this blog and the multiple tech books I have written.
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Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support but adds RISC-V and more. Here's how to try it yourself.

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

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The problem first came to light about a month ago, but Valve has only now offered an explanation.

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The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]

A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from women's reproductive health tracking app Flo without consent.

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Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks