“There are thousands of smart people who could start companies and don’t, and with a relatively small amount of force applied at just the…

Multics was a mainframe time-sharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. It was a major influence on subsequent computer operating systems.

Falling in love with a classic timber yacht was just the beginning of years of laborious and costly work. Michael Troy reflects on how he did it without going broke.

Star programmer Hadley Wickham hopes R will become more diverse and play better with other languages.

LBADD: An experimental, distributed SQL database. Contribute to tomarrell/lbadd development by creating an account on GitHub.

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. - FiloSottile/age

“No man has ever thought out an absolute or a universal ideal in politics, for the simple reason that nobody knows enough, or can know enough, to do it.”

It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the

Here are five things you didn’t know the navigation system could do.

<p>Is the way we run services these days sustainable? The trusted computing base -- the lines of code where, if a flaw is discovered, jeo...

Since he hasn’t done it himself yet, I’m nominating Guido van Rossum for the 2020 term Steering Council. (Yes, I asked him, and he agreed :). I can’t imagine he needs much of an introduction or endorsement at this point. His self-nomination from last year…

It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my findings.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a…

Fake sites and groups lobbying for India influenced decision makers in Europe, researchers say.

Ever thought topology and complex analysis could help you optimize your GPU data transfers ? How about non-classical mathematics ? Yeah, thought not.

8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We’re sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019…