Social cooling refers to the idea that if “you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.” And the massive amounts of data being collected, especially online, is exaggerating…

The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.

Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

with David Santiano, Deyin Mia Zhang, Xinran Azena Fan, and Yunru Casey Pan, NYU Shanghai; Barak Chamo, New York; Paolo Salvagione…

I crawled Parler’s data and analyzed the frequency of hashtags that called for hate and violence.

The problems with "vendoring" in packages—bundling dependencies rather than
getting them from other packages—seems to crop up frequently these days.
We looked at Debian's concerns about
packaging Kubernetes and its myriad of Go
dependencies back in October.…

Last time, we briefly mentioned the high-level differences between Stockfish and Leela Chess. To recap, Stockfish evaluates about 100 million positions per second using rudimentary heuristics, wher…

A proposed rule would target institutes that receive Chinese funds for exchange and cultural programs.

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The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds.

When you base your life on credit and your loving days are done checks you signed with love and kisses later come back signed insufficient funds —Funkadelic, Can You Get to That Thanks to Ward Cunningham, the metaphor technical debt…

The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.

Play through all the major events of 2020: the Australia wildfires, COVID-19, quarantine, the rise of TikTok, the USA elections, etc.

Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis

Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The…