A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.

Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a post buried on its…

What’s less often recognized is that loneliness could cause be a cause of brain damage as well, at least if we go by rodent studies.

Amazon.com Inc. has taken another step toward eliminating software from Oracle Corp. that has long helped the e-commerce giant run its retail business.

Everyone’s favorite apple is leaving Northeastern orchards out on a limb.

The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?

The history of Unix as seen through the eyes of Rob Pike. You will get an insider's view of the development of some of the key pieces of the modern computing...

Despite the fact that the Linux Kernel is mostly written in C, it makes broad use of some techn [...]

In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…

Ecns.cn is the official English-language website of China News Service (CNS), a state-level news agency sponsored and established by Chinese journalists and renowned overseas Chinese experts on October 1, 1952.As an English-language website, Ecns.cn aims…

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I was a psychotherapist in New York for ten years. I've often been asked my reasons for ending my therapy practice, and here they are.

I touch on the subjects of the screwed…

The move is part of an aggressive campaign against many products containing nicotine, including flavored e-cigarettes. Menthol has long been a concern among African-Americans because of its addictive qualities.

An Observable notebook by Jeremy Ashkenas.

The Adaptive Radix Tree: ARTful Indexing for Main-Memory Databases

Leis et. al., ICDE 2013 [paper]

Tries are an unloved third data structure for
building key-value stores and indexes, after search …