Websites are scanning for open ports on your PC to help fight fraud, but this data also flows into a massive, global tracking database.

Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"

Four million airplane parts made in 30 countries go into the making of an Airbus A380. Here’s how Airbus gathers the A380 parts together for assembly.

The theory of relativity describes black holes as being spherical, smooth and simple. Quantum theory describes them as being extremely complex and full of information. New research now proposes a surprising solution to this apparent duality.

Do you want to see accurate Jurassic Park dinosaurs? We provide a modern scientific perspective on these often criticized portrayals.

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Cingulata (pronounced "tchingulata") is a compiler toolchain and RTE for running C++ programs over encrypted data by means of fully homomorphic encryption techniques. - CEA-LIST/Cingulata

How a sidekick noscripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution…

A 65-year-old man in Flanders says he is "losing sleep" because he has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for nearly a decade, sometimes several times a day.

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Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether! - EnergizedProtection/block

Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal - JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for executing SQL queries in a relational database management system via the World Wide Web of the Internet. In accordance with the present invention, Web users can request information from RDBMS software…