The app store model has been a central part of the smartphone revolution, bringing safe, trusted software to billions of people for the first time. Breaking it would be insane. The trouble is, it also means Apple (and Google) aren’t the pirates anymore -…

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It's hardly a return to the glory days of the 1960s, but IBM Z Series mainframes look like they are more than getting by with a little help from their open source friends. IBM's Ross Mauri talks ab...

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Joe Sullivan, who led Uber’s security team through the company’s most tumultuous period, was fired by the company’s newly installed chief executive in 2017.

We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.

Over the past couple weeks I've been trying to work out how I want to store my game configuration. At first I started playing with XML, which was nice because I could stream a file rather than loading the entire thing into memory but I turned away from XML…

The editor behind a new academic journal that only publishes unsurprising research hopes the journal will help fix a major problem in scientific research — a bias towards surprising, unexpected results.

Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate.

This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaffe. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud. Adobe has confirmed that…

Air conditioners are a convenient way to cool down offices and homes, but they use huge amounts of energy in the process. A team of scientists has been developing an alternative solution for those warm summer months called the Cold Tube, which works by absorbing…

We are devastated to report that Big Basin, as we have known it for generations, is gone. Early reports say wildfire has consumed much of its historic facilities and we await the fate of its trees.

Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high-school-type problems,’ one CEO said

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