A decade after the housing crisis, a new breed of risk-taker is investing in nonperforming loans and pushing borrowers to start paying on them again. For homeowners who hadn’t heard from a lender for years, it can come as a shock.

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Apple probably didn’t intend to let competitors take advantage of Siri Shortcuts this way, but you can now launch Google Assistant on your iPhone by saying “Hey Siri, OK Google .” But don’t expect a flawless experience — it takes multiple steps. After updating…

An interactive Git visualization tool to educate and challenge!

I think I've discovered Rust somewhere around the year 2012. Back then it was much different language than it is today. It had green-thre...

An in-depth look at the new secure boot feature found in T2 enabled Apple devices.

Content warning: this article explores in detail suicidal ideation and methodology. In 1912, the Washington Post reported that an “Esthetic Nobleman” named Count August Seymore had planned to const…

Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis.…

(Updated 22 May 2020) This post discusses web security issues that I come across – so far thankfully mostly by reading about them. It is a work in progress which I’ll keep updating. The…

ECCploit is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-correcting code.

Quickly create Javanoscript and Markdown demos. Import any package on npm.

In East Germany, a gamer scene emerged just before the fall of communism. Teenagers met at a computer club to swap and play C64 games. The state watched with interest.

A list of dead google products and services and why they died.

A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support. - GitSquared/edex-ui

Robert Langlands's work may have no practical applications—and he doesn't mind at all