Mozilla releases Firefox 67.0.3 to fix actively exploited zero-day.

Rice University's solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed.

Futureland is a new way to learn anything. It is a set of tools designed to help you learn a new skill by creating something everyday for a year.

This is documentation on Futureland: Alpha, the first draft of Futureland. Currently invite only.

DNS cookies use DNS caches as a side-channel to identify related network flows.

1⃣Last night I gave my first public lecture on extreme weather since being "investigated" by Rep. Raul Grijalva in 2015. In the lecture I tell a story and present updated, consensus science on extreme weather. Let's get started ...

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

It's been a while since last post (Talk about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at RISC-V workshop), and sometimes things look very quiet from outside even if the people on the backstage never stop working. So this is an update on the status of this port…

A US lawmaker asks Facebook to wait before launching its digital currency, hours after it was announced.

We usually think of an algorithm as a single function with inputs and outputs. Our algorithms textbooks reinforce this notion. They present very concise denoscriptions that neatly fit in half of a pa…

“A sweatshop in America”

Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM. - foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

Somehow no one here seems to have pointed out yet that Facebook's stab at world financial domination - the Libra blockchain - is implemented using...

device invented to demonstrate the central limit theorem

Results of an academic study investigating how removing password masking impacts on customer trust