Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in Tibet when Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon.

There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, ruled that police access to real-time cell phone location

Brave says it can show users ads while protecting their privacy; eventually, it hopes to also pay publishers.

Forget Lambda and serverless: if you are doing anything at all in AWS besides using it as a fantastically overpriced datacenter, I pretty much guarantee you are deeply locked into IAM.

In the night schools of Bombay, factory workers dreamed that literacy and learning would raise them to respectability

Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.

Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019. "We had a good quarter and our business and community continue to grow," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "We are focused on building out our…

Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make our…

“I can’t fathom this being legitimate,” one former Labor Department investigator says of a drug rehab’s work program.

The $702 million loss exceeded expectations, but the company reaffirmed its guidance on the year’s deliveries. It said it was open to raising capital.

An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers pricey ways to cheat the marketplace and mislead customers, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a U.S. surveillance program that collects information about Americans’ phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence…

There is more to life than blitzscaling

Teaching shaped by fear, especially when dealing with controversial topics, will never be effective teaching.

Recently I have been re-writing my own GUI library. This time I took an immediate mode approach rather than the traditionally “retained mode”. I am quite happy with what I’ve got so far, both in terms of functionality and aesthetic. The following is a screenshot.