NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The long discussion on changing the Python
project's release cadence has come to a conclusion: the project will now be
releasing new versions on an annual basis. See PEP 602 for the
details on how it is expected to work.

Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems, search engines and social media. Mobile market share and desktop market share data.

It is now well known that neonicotinoids negatively affect pollinators. As research has expanded, it has become clear that these globally used insecticides directly affect other ecosystem components, including vertebrates. Yamamuro et al. now show that these…

Germany and France are rolling out a government-backed project to develop European cloud infrastructure in an effort to help local providers compete with U.S. technology giants, which dominate the global cloud market.

Motivation For a moderately security conscious geek like myself, there can be a number of reasons to want to set up a home VPN server:
Accessing your home computer via screen sharing without exposing it to the Internet (and thereby to potential evil-doers).…

Human Response Code: Designed to be recognized by humans and OCR. Encodes all valid URL characters to images. - hantuzun/hr-code

DKIM is a way to secure your email, increasing deliverability and avoiding fraud. A 20i Senior Systems Administrator explains DKIM in depth.

QR codes are ubiquitous in China. Whether tracking your health or charging your phone, buying a beer or booking a workout, here are 16 surprising uses for QR codes.

England's Euclidean Revolution

Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services. Hundreds of company documents unveil a sprawling surveillance industrial complex that targets kids who can’t opt out.

Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.

Domestic workers have been illegally sold via Instagram and other apps on Google and Apple's stores.

The federal government's outstanding public debt has surpassed $23 trillion for the first time in history, according to data from the Treasury Department.

Architects are taking issue with risk-averse playparks full of sluggish roundabouts and tiny climbing frames. But are playgrounds in the middle of roads really the answer?

It is a good question, but I was a little surprised to see it as the noscript of a research paper in a medical journal: “How Happy…