In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most…

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How Canada's largest city developed a 30 kilometer network of pedestrian tunnels

RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.

Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation’s sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy.

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The X account of a Turkish opposition leader with 9.7M followers is restricted in Turkey. Although his new account is not restricted, many users say they don't see his posts on their homepages.

Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The…

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Both SRAM and DRAM have stopped scaling: there is no technical roadmap to reduce their cost (per byte/GB). As a result, memory now dominates system cost. This paper argues for a paradigm shift...

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A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.

Opinion: But the cure may ruin the web....

Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based…

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