American city governments face a looming Covid-related budget disaster. And resulting austerity measures are likely to make the economy worse, not better.

Just yesterday, I turned off iCloud on all my Apple devices. I then took a moment to savour my liberation from Apple's walled garden. It has been over two years since I first dabbled in hosting my own blog server to finally disabling my iCloud account. There…

In Sitka, where people have lived for thousands of years, I’ve seen glaciers shrink, summer droughts and deadly landslides – and our elected officials are doing nothing

The popular podcast host is a political liberal by all metrics. So what explains the contempt he provokes in liberal circles?

In this blog post, we’ll show you a cross-API web app bug that slips through the cracks today, explain why it’s nobody’s fault, and show you how we diff API behaviors to catch bugs (while generating API specs along the way!!).

A local boy pointed out the spot in northwest Argentina where researchers discovered the previously unrecorded site Cerro Quemado

The case described by some as a "David versus Goliath battle" has stirred up debate in Singapore.

Patricia T O'Conner: Tawk of the Town - You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English by E J White

The case hinged on 988 signatures collected by two circulators who were not registered to vote in the towns they circulated petitions in.

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

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