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

Because user data was not adequately secured, Knuddels was fined five digits. The responsible data protection officer still has praise for the chat platform.

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

In Diane Greene's three years running Google's cloud, the VMware co-founder boosted hiring and won some notable deals, but the business never cracked double digits in terms of market share and was beset by internal clashes. 

Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm

The ritual burial could be linked to a huge previously undiscovered Iron Age settlement.

At its peak, the Assyrian empire was the biggest on the planet