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.

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Renée Diresta is a Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, where she researches unintended consequences of algorithms and works towards helping machines make better decisions. Renee also writes about disinformation and the…

Before I go into the details and reasoning I’ll get straight to the point. The most valuable thing request can do for the JavaScript ecosystem is to go into maintenance mode and stop considering ne...

The leader behind Linux Mint lays bare the struggles some distribution developers face. But you can make a difference.

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