Brief: Our open source software highlight of the week is Session. It is a fork of another increasingly popular private messenger Signal. Session doesn’t even need your phone number to operate.






Session: A private messenger in true sense









Privacy…

Many people complain about their internet service, but Brandt Kuykendall did something about it. A resident of the small town of Dillon Beach, CA, he found the service to his town was too slow and expensive - so he started a DIY ISP in his garage. Subscribe:…

We study the consequences of a firm engaging in corporate social responsibility within the firm’s operations, rather than doing so outside the firm through char

Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.

The Best Karaoke Maker. Contribute to youkaclub/youka-desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.

The App Review Guidelines provide guidance and examples across a range of development topics, including user interface design, functionality, content, and the use of specific technologies. These guidelines are designed to help you prepare your apps for the…

A quarter of the population is in lockdown as Italy takes drastic action to control Covid-19.

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Vanessa Teague reported on a dataset of Medicare and PBS payments that was supposed to be anonymous but wasn’t

AMD processors from 2011 to 2019 impacted

A personal blog focused on software, Machine Learning and other passing fads.

Part of the ‘Estimating’ Risk-First Series, looking at the essential flaws in Scrums’ time-boxing of work.

A participant in a clinical trial on MDMA therapy accused her unlicensed therapist of sexual assault. Was it a one-off event or an institutional failing?

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs - freedomofpress/dangerzone

After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now landing in unstable. 1.10 would be a boring, weird number, eh?
Compared to the 1.8 series, the APT 2.0 series features several new…

The long read: Threats to humanity, and how we address them, define our time. Why are we still so complacent about facing up to existential risk?

Old-money families in Europe are seeking new-technology investments as they look to bolster their financial returns and, increasingly, remake their companies.