A new lawsuit alleges that some of the world's largest tech companies — including Apple and Microsoft — are knowingly benefiting the use of deadly child labour at cobalt mines in Congo.

The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.

A German university is going 'old school' and issuing new passwords for the email accounts of all 38,000 of its students and staff ... by hand, after unknown malware was discovered in the university computer network.

Programming languages generally have limits—explicit or implicit—on various
aspects of their operation. Things like the maximum length of an
identifier or the range of values that a variable can store are fairly
obvious examples, but there are others, many…

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Dave Clark has twin challenges: ensuring packages arrive on time and keeping workers safe.

I used to run a fairly large (for two Ops people) mail system until 2014. I did it all, sendmail, MIMEDefang, my own milters, SPF, and a bunch of other accompanying acronyms and technologies. I&#82…

Masayoshi Son’s venture capital firm is famous for making outsize bets on tech startups. It has also been described as an environment of sycophancy and harassment.

Comment to ARM: Responsible disclosure doesn't mean "downplay to avoid damage to the bottom line." The responsibility aspect entails ensuring all customers are aware of the defect. What happened here is indistinguishable from Intel's behavior, and that's…

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 16, 2019 ~ One has to wonder how much money it would take for the New York Fed to throw at Wall Street before

TL;DR: Go read the early release of the second edition of Infrastructure as Code on O’Reilly! This is the first eight chapters of what will probably be eight...

Groups representing municipal employees and teachers are often paid to endorse investment products for members’ savings, which can carry high expenses that cut into the size of a retirement nest egg.

Employers have broad rights to ban email use.

Wiki can't prove it's being surveilled as the technology is a state secret

Facebook told two senators why it tracks users' locations even when their tracking services are turned off.

Drinking, cigarette smoking and the use of hard drugs all declined, according to a new federal survey of high school and middle school students.