The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks. The “modernizing” effort was quietly completed in June.

SuperGLUE is a new benchmark styled after original GLUE benchmark with a set of more difficult language understanding tasks, improved resources, and a new public leaderboard.

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

Cryptofuzz Cryptofuzz is a project that fuzzes cryptographic libraries and compares their output in order to find implementation discrepancies. It’s quite effective and has already found a lo…

Until a few thousand years ago, iron was virtually unknown. Now, high-quality steel is everywhere around us

Some weeks ago I got involved in a discussion on Twitter about, which books to recommend on the history of calculus. Somebody chimed in that Steven Strogatz’s new book would tell you all that you n…

The Taiwan-based tech company promised to open "innovation centers" in several cities around the state. But now those are on hold, too.

Voracious purple urchins in waters of California and Oregon pose threat to mighty kelp forests and risk upending delicate ecosystems

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.

Two lawmakers have asked the government’s most senior U.S. intelligence official to assess if video-sharing app TikTok could pose “national security risks” to the United States. In a letter by Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), the lawmakers…

An illustrated guide to explain OAuth and OpenID Connect!

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A New Jersey utility sparked outrage for charging customers to subsidize nuclear plants. We checked the bills. Turns out, that was just one of 16 lurking surcharges.

Learn how to use Tor hidden services safely. Check whether a .onion site is online, View the uptime history of popular Tor sites and their mirrors.

Cottage Craft Works .com now carries some of the most popular kitchen counter top appliances in both electric and air power conversions.

You can now purchase the Bosh Universal Mixer with...

An open-source book about Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization based on experience, practice and denoscriptive examples