The UK government finally gave into demands to release controversial NHS data-sharing deals – which up to this point had been kept secret – after tech justice organisation Foxglove and openDemocracy threatened legal action that was due to kick off today.…

I co-founded @reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging. It is long overdue to do the right thing. I’m doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.

A team of researchers from CMU and Technion recently introduced a new system, Penrose, that can turn complex mathematical notations into various styles of simple diagrams. The novel system rapidly attracted attention on social media as a promising visualization…

3-D illustration of blood vessels with plaque buildup. (iStockphoto) Disrupted nightly sleep and clogged arteries tend to sneak up on us as we age. And while both disorders may seem unrelated, a new UC Berkeley study helps explain why they are, in ...

Yesterday, author Alex Berenson reported via Twitter that Amazon had spiked his new book about COVID-19 and the lockdowns. Berenson is a former New York Times reporter, author of other books, fiction and non-fiction,

(Reuters) - The U.S. state attorneys general investigating Alphabet Inc’s Google for potential antitrust violations are leaning toward pushing for a breakup of its ad technology business as part of an expected suit, CNBC reported on Friday, citing sources.

One of the problems with FOSS (free and open source software) is a lot of them use some Google proprietary bits, some examples being [ProtonMail...

Buffalo police lied about attacking an elderly man. The video exposed them.

Google2Csv a simple google scraper that saves the results on a csv/xlsx/jsonl file - psalias2006/Google2Csv

An overview of the Crystal programming language and performance comparison between Crystal and Ruby.

Live Syphon Camera. Contribute to v002/v002-Camera-Live development by creating an account on GitHub.

The other day, I tweeted. “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to *not* meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.” This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly …

Super-slow-motion video demonstrations supporting the book "The Illustrated Principles of Pool and Billiards."

So it would be really nice if we could do browser-based end-to-end encrypted video calling, like we do between devices like a desktop app or a mobile app. We want this so that Zoom itself, or an outside party influencing Zoom or their infrastructure, cannot…

Apple has announced today that it is launching an open source project designed for developers of password managers. The goal is to make it easier for developers to “create strong passwords that are compatible with popular websites. Apple’s iCloud Keychain…

Note: this is written about normal times. With the pandemic closing schools and daycares a lot of parents have far less time than usual, and while we're lucky that this has not affected us it's not what I'm looking at this here. When I compare my life before…

The popular desktop Linux distribution, Linux Mint, wants nothing to do with Ubuntu's Snap software installation system.