SoftBank will take control of WeWork after the deal is announced.

A web attack which disables web resources

As the company whittles away free storage offers and prompts more people to pay, that creates a new revenue stream.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk used an internet connection provided by his company’s Starlink constellation of broadband satellites early on Tuesday AM. Musk used the network in place with the Starlink satellites already in orbit to send a simple tweet, declaring that…

In Firefox 70 we changed how pixels get to the screen on macOS. This allows us to do less work per frame when only small parts of the screen change. As a result, Firefox 70 drastically reduces the …

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog.…

Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats

Forget golden parachutes; this is a golden escape pod

Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in this fall’s election.

The shared-office company, which scrapped an initial public offering and pushed out its chief executive last month, isn’t profitable and may not be for the foreseeable future.

New York's attorney general announces today that 47 attorneys general have joined the antitrust investigation into Facebook, reaching as far as the territory of Guam.

A little while ago I was doing some research into the state-of-the-art for approximating subsurface scattering effects in real-time (mainly for skin rendering), and I had taken a bunch of loose notes to help me keep all of the details straight. I thought…

Quantum tunnelling effect reduces mask steps, slashes lead time

Course materials for Georgia Tech CS 4650 and 7650, "Natural Language" - jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class

A mother's search for inclusion and acceptance of her son finally has a hopeful chapter, thanks to New Brunswick's 'geek' community.

WeWork is thought to be in danger of running out of cash within a month if it doesn't get new funding soon. It had planned to cut jobs to save money.

Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.

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assert:

If the validation function passed to assert.throws() or assert.rejects()
returns a value other than true, an assertion error will be thrown instead
of the original error t...