A quick and dirty denoscription of how the device basically functions. I'll be animating a proper walkthrough when I get the opportunity. Full construction tut...

Western Digital's SMR disks won't work for ZFS, but they're okay for most NASes.

Regular readers will know that I'm very active in the CA / PKI space and even
deliver a 2-day advanced training course
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on the topic. Over the last year or so I've been watching…

The find could be a big clue about the nature of fast radio bursts.

It’s an ATM to die for. A conveyor belt of cash-strapped New Yorkers — most of them unemployed and some from as far as Queens — queue up every day at an ATM on East 22nd Street. They wait

Music and science come together in this amazing video to create an electric live-performance of Toto's "Africa," made entirely with Tesla coils.

Using a flawed automated system, Michigan falsely charged thousands with unemployment fraud and took millions from them.

They can be a source of clean, renewable energy, sustainable food, and more

Peter Thiel's Palantir was given access to NHS patient records that contain citizen's contact details, gender, race, religion, occupation, physical and mental health condition, as well as past criminal offenses.

They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but funding went to studying other threats, and coronavirus research withered.

In July 2018, Google was fined €4.34 billion for limiting search on Android phones. Almost two years later, its rivals claim little has changed and the company is as dominant as ever

After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they…

Hummingbird compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for faster inference. - microsoft/hummingbird

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be desc…