A federal grand jury is looking at partnerships that gave major tech companies broad access to Facebook users’ information.

Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.

A tribute and a playlist to celebrate the shuttered Anna Loulou, the Jaffa bar that became a legendary shared space for all.

The EU has taken a big step forward in cybersecurity, by giving legal recognition to the importance of government vulnerability disclosure review processes.

Tinkersynth is an experimental art project. Create unique designs by manipulating whimsical machines and making serendipitous discoveries.

What’s an agreement system? What makes one “Byzantine”? What makes a Byzantine one “federated”?

The media uproar created by two fatal accidents in new Boeing 737 MAX airline jets makes me wonder if Boeing, or any transport jet maker, can continue to trust pilots to be a critical part of aircraft systems. Let me explain.

In the image, four small children sit huddled on steps outside a home in Chicago, behind a sign that reads “4 Children For Sale Inquire Within”.

Extracting BitLocker keys sealed with a TPM by sniffing the LPC bus

The planes flew in similar erratic patterns, suggesting to experts that an automated system might have malfunctioned on both flights.

If you're reading this then you're not C.

Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the lesser-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics. The experiment shows how the strange nature of the universe allows two observers—say, Wigner…

Building a 4-node cluster for experimenting with the distributed operating system.

Bot-powered credential stuffing is a scourge on the modern Internet. These attacks attempt to log into and take over a user’s account by assaulting password forms with a barrage of dictionary words and previously stolen account credentials.

After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1!
It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. Godot 3.1 is more mature and easy…

Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. Update: A Google spokesperson responded to TechCrunch with a statement…

In cities all over America, we deter people from revitalizing neighborhoods by punishing them with higher taxes for improving their property. A change in how we tax property could fix these incentives.

Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.

The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter at the slightest disturbance, it has successfully evaded attention for millions of years—until now.