In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a…

In an age of information overload, it’s important to find ways to resist the brain’s difficulty in separating fact from falsehood.

In the summer of 1996, my mother’s business partner vanished during a sea kayaking trip off the coast of Mexico. Keith, as I’ll call him,...

Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux …

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Fixing conflicts is chore enough not to do the same ones over and over again. See how rerere makes Git remember your conflict fixes!

A review of Timothy Niven and Hung-Yu Kao, 2019: Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments

Traffic apps turned the city's neighborhoods into "shortcuts." Now furious residents are attempting to take them back, street by street

The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions

Compatibility of FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad T480, notes and fixes (HiDPI, Trackpad, camera, etc).

Paul Graham, essayist, programmer and partner in the y-combinator talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about start-ups, innovation, and creativity. Graham draws on his experience as entrepreneur and investor to discuss the current state of the start-up world…

Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off

We have warned you about the destruction of our lands. You must listen before it is too late, says Raoni Metuktire, chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people

Pretrained Pytorch face detection (MTCNN) and facial recognition (InceptionResnet) models - timesler/facenet-pytorch