Andy Wingo — January 16, 2020

Nature - Latest launch includes ‘DarkSat’ prototype to reduce reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites.

We look at how to utilize both, views and materialized views, within Ruby on Rails with a real-world sized dataset of hockey teams and their top scorers.

The U.S. education system spent more than $26 billion on tech­nology in 2018. That’s larger than the entire Israeli military budget. By one estimate, annual global spending on technology in schools will soon total $252 billion. But the technology pushed into…

The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world’s climate. Already, the planet’s temperature has risen by 1 degree centigrade.…

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On Tuesday, the NSA announced they had found a critical vulnerability in the certificate validation functionality on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. This bug allows attackers to break the validation of trust in a wide variety of contexts, such as…

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

Youngest son of Lord of the Rings author was responsible for editing and publishing much of his father’s work

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Technology vendors like SAP may rake in billions of dollars a year helping big companies build complex tech infrastructures, but they screw up—often.

In the opening months of World War II, U.S. submarines were plagued by faulty ordnance.

Pentagon fears Chinese interference in Taiwan's semiconductor giant

This document describes the 6-stage, single issue Ariane CPU which implements the 64-bit RISC-V instruction set. It fully implements I, M and C extensions as specified in Volume I: User-Level ISA V 2.1 as well as the draft privilege extension 1.10. It implements…

A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news

A first look at how Java 14’s data records will change the way you code

In time Australia's AAA credit rating will be at risk.