Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach. 

We benchmarked the performance of WebAssembly threads to see how it would render compared PNaCl. In this blog, learn if threaded WebAssembly performs faster than its Chrome precursor PNaCl, and if it can handle the memory requirements of demanding documents.

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet virtue of cruelty.

How I used Edsger W. Dijkstra's handwriting as a model to improve mine.

As many as one in four San Joaquin Valley families with private wells are unknowingly drinking dangerous amounts of uranium.

Oh hey, y’all, it’s Friday! It’s August! Which means it’s a great day for Facebook to drop a little news it would prefer you don’t notice. News that you won’t find a link to on the homepage of Facebook’s Newsroom — which is replete with colorfully illustrated…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet of material into any prescribed shape, inspired ...

Chinese-American cancer researcher

Introducing mistry - an open source, general-purpose build server.

Firebase Firestorm is an ORM for Firestore which can be used with Typenoscript. - GitHub - lmcq/firebase-firestorm: Firebase Firestorm is an ORM for Firestore which can be used with Typenoscript.

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android

(even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

In this talk, we’re looking at third party tracking on Android. We’ve captured and decrypted data in transit between our own devices and Facebook…