It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way…

Companies should try digging in their pockets if they're looking to find workers for unfilled jobs, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Tuesday.

Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet and then secondly, about how we all bear some responsibility for making good password choices. A few people took some of the…

The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the
first from that project in well over three years. At the 2018
Open Source
Summit Europe, Giovanni Bechis talked about that release and those that
will be coming in the near future. It would seem that, after an extended…

How and why a 1,500-year-old game has conquered the internet.

DeepMasterPrints created by a machine learning technique have error rate of only one in five

California’s biggest utility was plunged into full-blown crisis by the possibility that its equipment sparked one of the catastrophic wildfires ravaging the state.

The 31-kilometer-wide Hiawatha crater may have formed as recently as 12,800 years ago when a 1.5-kilometer asteroid struck Earth

Mastodon is the new social media platform, a decentralized alternative to Twitter that is currently blowing up. This is a step by step guide on how to run your own Mastodon instance on Digital Ocean. Set up a Droplet Create a new docker droplet: This droplet…

Study of remote communities in Venezuelan rainforest sheds fresh light on hypertension

Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he would combat the spread of conspiracy theories—while his company was doing the opposite.

Yoshitaka Sakurada is responsible for ensuring the 2020 Olympic Games are not hacked.

Little things can mean a lot online. Researchers suggest that adding small computer graphics, called icons, that imply crowd size and connectivity can lead people to disclose more information — often very personal information — online.

Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. Five things smart people tend to struggle…

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released its upgraded flagship computing board, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, earlier this year.

There's a simple statistic called the Lincoln Index that lets you estimate the total number of errors based on the number of errors found. I'll explain what ...

Same processor, fewer ports.

Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain and too many other technical breakthroughs to list all share a common component - Linux, the same workhorse that has driven mission-critical, production systems for nearly two decades. Today…