Rackspace, the hosted private cloud vendor, let go around 200 workers or 3 percent of its worldwide workforce of 6,600 employees this week. The company says that it’s part of a recalibration where it is trying to find workers who are better suited to their…

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Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment

PG&E said its equipment will probably be found to be an “ignition point” of the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., last year that killed 85 people, and recorded total fire-related charges of $11.5 billion in the fourth quarter.

Warren Buffett generally avoids technology stocks but Berkshire Hathaway’s latest moves include buying and selling Oracle, hanging on to Apple shares, and adding a small investment in Red Hat.

EditorConfig is a file format and collection of text editor plugins for maintaining consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

Min Jin Lee on her former professor: “For me, reading ‘Ain’t I A Woman,’ was as if someone had opened the door, the windows, and raised the roof in my mind.”

Python library for building highly effective data science workflows - d6t/d6tflow

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Irresponsible business and the murder of land and environmental defenders in 2017

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Nearly five years ago, the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, with 239 people on board. The search in the Indian Ocean for the wreckage of the aircraft has been the largest and most expensive search effort in history — but it has…

Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series - aphyr/distsys-class

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