A collection of power user tips for those working with Postgres

Another day, another massive data breach. This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, which revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Consumers and small businesses affected…

I’ve spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. “Everyone should believe disable…

From the August 16, 1982 issue of New York Magazine.

A report from the front lines of Silicon Valley’s failure industry.

Synchronizing threads at a lower level.

I have seen some pretty serious corporate bureaucratic dysfunction over the years, but I think this one takes the cake: on May 23, we shippe...

Over the last decade, artificial neural networks (ANNs), have undergone a revolution, catalyzed in large part by better tools for supervised learning. However, training such networks requires enormous data sets of labeled examples, whereas young animals (including…

NPM — In the hours following another package disaster on npm in which a lone developer killed more than dozens of CI builds and caused…

Let’s bypass some slider CAPTCHAs with JS and Puppeteer

Configuration profile disabling server-side logging of Siri requests for your Mac, iPhone and iPad - jankais3r/Siri-NoLoggingPLS

The breach of an irrigation canal left more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming without water at a critical point in the growing cycle.

“The only real law of history is the law of unintended consequences,” says finance and economics historian Niall Ferguson. On July 30, Google Chrome will

Find sheds fresh light on wealth and influence of ex-inhabitants of National Trust property

Apple’s unfair, monopolistic policies on its App Store hurt developers and consumers alike. But there’s a better way.

The security researchers involved say that Apple has yet to fix all of the discovered flaws.

This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party. Tracking on these sites is...

Taking aim at "features that are designed to be addictive."