Newly discovered billion-year-old fossilised fungi are more than twice as old as previous finds, and suggest that fungi may have been preparing Earth's lands for plant life for millions of years.

In a significant escalation, policymakers are seeking to undermine or discard research showing the most dire risks of inaction on climate change.

How my app’s keywords mysteriously disappeared from search results and downloads were slashed by 44%

UBI without quality public services is a neo-liberal paradise.

PugSQL is a Python library for interacting with your database using SQL.

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.5! If you’re new to TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript that adds optional static types. TypeScript code gets type-checked to avoid common mistakes like typos and accidental…

The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for the Las Vegas Convention Center that’s more marketing flash than public transit.

Finding a way for applications to do atomic writes to files, so that either
the old or new data is present after a crash and not a combination of the
two, was the topic of a session
led by Christoph Hellwig at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and
Memory…

In a response to negative feedback, Google shared that Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities for extensions will soon be restricted to enterprise users.

A few months ago I posted some data on this blog that showed the growth of homeschooling in the US with almost 5% of K12 students being schooled at home. I wrote at the end of that post: This is a trend to watch and, possibly, to invest in Well, invest in…

Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics?

Kingdom targeted satirist Ghanem Almasarir with Israeli malware, letter of claim alleges

A year ago, Benjamin “Mako” Hill gave a groundbreaking lecture explaining how Big Tech companies had managed to monopolize all the benefits of free software licenses, using a combinatio…

Yesterday, we were disappointed to learn that The North Face, an outdoor recreation product company, and Leo Burnett Tailor Made, an ad agency retained by The North Face, unethically manipulated Wi…