It’s easy for “maintaining” our public investments to become “upgrading” our public investments. Especially when there is money available. And especially when that money is borrowed.

U.S. officials are trying to determine what to do with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine after the Food and Drug Administration revoked authorization of the drug to treat COVID-19 patients.

In response to popular demand, Microsoft announced a new feature of the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2)—GPU acceleration—at the Build conference in May 2020. This feature opens the gate for many…

Eighty years ago a Portuguese consul gave visas to thousands fleeing the invading Nazis in France.

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Last year, MDN ran the 2019 Web Developer Needs Assessment (DNA) survey . The DNA survey drew responses from over 28,000 developers from aro...

Apple defends its App Store rules while critics raise questions.

Are we ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again? There are trends that suggest we might just have come full circle - and I like it.

By James Forshaw, Project Zero In my previous blog post I discussed an issue with the Windows Kernel’s handling of Restricted Tokens wh...

Database of crystal structures

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.

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A miniature, wireless, and magnetically powered neural stimulator may be the future of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, and disorders like epilepsy and chronic pain, a study...

Practical Python Programming (course by @dabeaz). Contribute to dabeaz-course/practical-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free – John 8:32 (and the lobby of CIA Headquarters, Langley Virginia) A few other versions of the talk are here and here Secret Hist…

Towards the end of his life, Charles Darwin was preoccupied with the question of whether worms think. Night after night, he would go out into the garden of Down House, armed with shovels, lamps and whistles, hoping to prove that these worms were cleverer…