A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.

Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue. Some aircrafts have to be grounded waiting for an update.

Black holes formed right after the Big Bang aren't common enough to be dark matter.

“Power reveals. Do I want people to know that? Yes.”

As cities become ever-more expensive, politicians and housing advocates keep calling for rent control. Economists think that’s a terrible idea. They say it helps a small (albeit noisy) group of renters, but keeps overall rents artificially high by disincentivizing…

Under pressure from Reddit's administrators over copyright issues, the site's largest forum dedicated to piracy discussion has opted for "The Nuclear Option". After voting by its contributors, all posts older than six months are now being deleted. That's…

Take note of the noscript of this blog.  What you read below will give you some additional knowledge that may help you identify a hidden camera but it certainly won’t guarantee that. We got lucky…

When foxes nearly wiped out a colony of little penguins, a sheepdog saved the day.

Today's selection -- from Liquid Rules by Mark Miodownik. The secret of oil paint, as mastered by our greatest artists:

Linus Torvalds, the angry rant-prone creator of Linux, argues that modern social media incentivize terrible behavior online.

GIMP 2.10.10 released: colors are hard!

In 1981, the BBC set out to educate Great Britain about computers. It did a really good job.