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Jan Swillens, de directeur van de Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD), adviseert grote organisaties niet met een smartphone of tablet op tafel te vergaderen. Het risico op spionage is dan te groot, zegt hij in een maandag verschenen interview…

Written while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy poses questions about human reason that remain urgent today

The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.

// this is OK std::string to_string(int i); std::string to_string(bool b); std::string si = to_string(0); std::string sb = to_string(true); // this is not OK int from_string(std::string_view s); bool from_string(std::string_view s); int i = from_string("7");…

Researchers are closely studying northern and southern resident orcas for clues to their survival. Their newest tool: underwater cameras attached to the whales' skin.

Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.

We are updating our hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust. 

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Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control…

In less than a decade, 3D-printed firearms have become functional and can be made quite simply in your kitchen

The President of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has announced they received $108 million from Amazon for 4 million amateur radio TCP/IP addresses

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Your car sits idle over 95% of the time. Your guest bedroom is occupied one week out of every 52. Your kids use the yard less than 40 minutes a week. Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item - like a house or a car…

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 was awarded jointly to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"