Yesterday, I wrote about science publishing profiteer Elsevier’s legal threats against Citationsy, in which the company claimed that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub (an illegal open-access…

As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence…

The decision to delay a $10 billion computing contract for which Amazon was the favorite reflected both opposition from President Trump and an aggressive campaign by an industry rival.

We didn’t start the fire

Class-action lawsuit filed in California against Capital One... and GitHub???

I use vim. I’ve used vim since I started programming; the very first program I
wrote – hello world in C, following along a cprogramming. …

Nearly everyone in American politics believes we face an energy crisis, and nearly everyone believes we need a technological solution that will make America “energy independent.” Americans are, as President Bush put it in his 2006 State of the Union address…

Introduction

They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet.

Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience.

It’s too easy for bad actors to exploit the process and mislead the public

Our research reveals how the publisher of hit games including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush moved €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017.

A study finds that while shared e-scooters may be greener than most cars, they can be less environmentally friendly than other transportation options.

Big ideas, strong-willed characters, impossible deadlines and close quarters — if you wrote out a recipe for conflict, it might bear an uncanny resemblance to the high-stakes, pressure-cooker environment of a startup. We spoke with top engineers, seasoned…

It started off as a joke… Just setting up my burner machine for @defcon pic.twitter.com/Dz9pjCBTCo— Justin Collins (@presidentbeef) June …

This blog post is an illustrated guide to regex and aims to provide a gentle introduction for people who never have fiddled with regex, want to, but are kind of intimidated by the whole thing.