The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) are alleged to have to asked the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to create 'backdoors' into GNU/Linux through which they could access.

It’s Time to Fully Embrace Decentralized Protocols for the Protection and Dignity of Our Users.

WhatsApp is updating its Terms and Privacy Policy, resulting in many people fleeing the platform. The new changes take effect later this year.

“When people look to hire a truck, they feel that if it looks fancy and newly painted, then it’s probably in better condition and they trust it more.”

The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy.

Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.

Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.

It's relevant to economics, epidemiology, traffic, and the spread of misinformation.

London’s hospitals are less than two weeks from being overwhelmed by covid even under the ‘best’ case scenario, according to an official briefing given to the capital’s most senior doctors this afternoon.

How should you structure a larger engineering organization, one with dozens (or hundreds) of engineers? There are many tradeoffs to consider, and no single right answer. But, there are some structures that work better than others.

Reproduce parallax effect for an user whose point of view is tracked by a camera - VincentLefevre/3D-parallax

Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs), also known as Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) can be used as practically unique identifiers in systems. GUIDs have many advantages. You can safely generate identifiers in a distributed setting, compared to a central…

Twitter appears to have removed the president's last two tweets

This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.

With this week marking three years since Spectre and Meltdown were made public in ushering in a wave of CPU security disclosures that followed and mitigations that often resulted in measurable performance hits, here is a look at how the performance costs…

an exploration in reading and understanding code

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