For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signal…

In an earlier post, I asked how fast the getline function in C++ could run through the lines in a text file. The answer was about 2 GB/s, certainly over 1 GB/s. That is slower than some of the best disk drives and network connections. If you take into account…

GitHub do not ban us from open source world :iran: - 1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

A Times investigation found that the F.A.A. regulatory process, which gave Boeing significant oversight authority, compromised the safety of the plane.

Investigative news site Bellingcat has confirmed several of its staff were targeted by an attempted phishing attack on their ProtonMail accounts, which the journalists and the email provider say failed. “Yet again, Bellingcat finds itself targeted by cyber…

Climate change has slowly damaged traditional crops. Now farmers on the Italian island of Sicily are looking for innovative alternatives to survive and even thrive.

Nature - As efforts to chart the brain’s neurons gather pace, researchers must find a way to make the accumulating masses of data useful.

The 4.10 release covers commit a2faaa9a2 to commit ae317695e3 There is a pgp signed 4.10 tag in the git repository, and a branch will be created as needed. In nearly 8 months since 4.9 we had 198 authors commit 2538 changes to master. Of these, 85 authors…

Walter Isaacson on CRISPR.

MetaCall: The ultimate polyglot programming experience. - metacall/core

The effort, called “Hack_Right,” is aimed at first-time offenders who may be skirting the law from behind their keyboard and not even realize it.

Early versions of Simula experimented with an entirely different kind of object-oriented programming.

Researchers have discovered that meal timing strategies such as intermittent fasting or eating earlier in the daytime appear to help people lose weight by lowering appetite rather than burning more calories, according to a report. The study is the first to…

I was the first person to call Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and offer to buy the company (I was running Bolt at the time). In March, 2010, I…

Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos

In the past, gods and demons allowed us to talk about phenomena that we didn’t fully understand. During the Enlightenment, we tried to kill them and explain everything in reductionist scientific terms. But it feels to me like we’ve come full circle. We’re…