From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

It started with a Band-Aid. A $629 Band-Aid. A medical bill emailed to Vox senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff got her interested in emergency room facility fees—a widely applied, highly variable, and little understood cost in the healthcare system. The…

Kids have a habit of imitating their parents’ criminal behavior. It’s no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.

This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Today we’re releasing React 16.6 with a few new convenient features. A form of PureComponent/shouldComponentUpdate for function components, a way to do code splitting using Suspense…

More side effects of the company’s recent fight with Evergrande, its main investor

Profit-sharing plans for rank-and-file employees are vanishing as corporate America has adopted a new approach toward who reaps a healthy company’s gains.

For many high-assurance applications such as TLS traffic, medical databases, and blockchains, forward secrecy is absolutely essential. It is not sufficient to prevent an attacker from immediately decrypting sensitive information. Here the threat model encompasses…

Array and hash table are probably the most important data structures. Some programming languages such as Perl, Lua and Javanoscript, almost build the language core on top of the two data structures. …

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What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang?

Two months ago I have published a detailed survey of varioussecurity-related problems plaguing the Intel x86 platforms. While the picturepainted in the paper...

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized against people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”. Cook did not namecheck the adtech elephants…

Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back.