The controversial jailed antivirus software mogul John McAfee followed up his virus-fighting work with one of the first social networks, a competitor to AOL Instant Messenger. Really.

In 1981, Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, published a thought experiment in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: what if the codes to launch nuclear wa…

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From the Starlink ToS

Stolen data appears to have included personal identification records and notes about therapy sessions.

How the IC and EM tracks are different, and why I switched back.

Thirty five years ago I became an Amiga user. One of the first, actually. This is a meandering and reminiscent post of sorts, written to mark the Amiga’s 35th birthday and the 35 years I have known and loved the … Continue reading →

Google’s dominance of the search engine landscape could be under threat with reports that Apple is ramping up its own search engine.

Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of contributors to the Fedora Project: our latest release, Fedora 33, is here! This is a big release with a lot of change, but I believe all that work will also make it a comfortable one…

During the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in humans a D614G substitution in the spike (S) protein emerged and became the predominant circulating variant (S-614G) of the COVID-19 pandemic1. However, whether the increasing prevalence of the S-614G variant represents…

The U.S. National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place so-called back doors into commercial technology products, in a controversial practice that critics say damages both U.S.…

The PAL-V Liberty has gained approval to drive on European roads, making it the first flying car to receive such permission from the European Union. With this clearance, the PAL-V Liberty is not just a concept anymore—it’s a road-legal vehicle ready to change…

Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy

Stripe Climate allows you to remove carbon as you grow your business

Ten years ago this fall, Google gave us a glimpse of a new device unlike any it had ever built before—a computer-controlled car.…