The Chinese scientist who shocked the world with claims of creating the first genetically engineered babies is being detained in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a report in The New York Times. He Jiankui, a Chinese research scientist at the Southern…

Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

Few weeks ago I solved a great KVM escaping challenge from TWCTF hosted by @TokyoWesterns . I have given a writeup on my blog:  [Write-up] T...

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

Forth + Lisp in C

By Paul Grana, co-founder, Folsom Labs It’s considered common knowledge that you want to point your solar modules south, toward the equator (assuming you

Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would…

In 1900, David Hilbert published a list of 23 problems that he proposed would be the important ones for mathematicians to solve in the upcoming century. That list led to a focused effort that laste…

This is a list of the best libraries and packages that changed our lives this year, compiled from my weekly digests

Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?

Five years after filing for bankruptcy protection, Detroit has achieved a financial feat few experts predicted. But some worry the growth is leaving long-time Detroit residents behind.

Some doctors warn that Facebook is becoming an arbiter of users’ mental distress without proving that its efforts are accurate, effective or safe.

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Each designed by an international architect.

Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control server and agent written in golang. - Ne0nd0g/merlin

BBEdit and other popular indy Mac apps have been around for over 25 years. Here are insights from over a century of development of Mac apps from four long-term developers.