WTF? @backblaze 's B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names and sizes of my files in my B2 bucket to facebook. I noticed because I saw "waiting for facebook .com" at the bottom while trying to download a backup... ?!?!?!? I even opted out of their tracking…

The New York City Department of Corrections spent $447,337 per inmate in fiscal 2020, a third more than a year ago and more than double the fiscal 2015 mark, according to a report released Wednesday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Confirmed: Internet has been cut in #Myanmar from 1 am Monday local time, the 36th consecutive night of military-imposed shutdowns 📉 Meanwhile: 📵 Mobile data disabled: 7 days 📶 Public wifi limited: 5 days ❌ Online platforms filtered since February 📰netbl…

This post is written by Hannah Wolfman-Jones but includes a response from civil-rights expert Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU. It addresses the inclusion of Richard M. Stallman as a co-author in the book System Override: How Bitcoin, Blockchain…

Solitude is a privacy analysis tool that enables anyone to conduct their own privacy investigations. Whether a curious novice or a more advanced researcher, Solitude makes the process of evaluating...

By Reinier Haasjes, Senior System Administrator, Adyen

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in a large trial in Chile, Peru and the United States, the company said on Monday, paving the way for it to apply for U.S. approval.

A simple network of pipes based on the structures of a bird’s lung transforms back-and-forth flow into one-way flow.

The home page of a free online class in




distributed systems.

Even the predators are prey.

Carlton Tavern reopens six years after planning ruling that campaigners hope will prevent developers demolishing other sites

I posted about this the "must have tools" thread but I thought it might get missed there by someone buying Mitutoyo calipers from a questionable source. I bought a set on Amazon from a 3rd party...

myByways - the road less travelled by C.Y. Wong

The very top sliver of high-income Americans may underreport their income at levels far beyond what was suggested by prior IRS research, according to a new paper.

Japanese company's shares down almost 5% after plant fire

When thinking of Denial of Service (DoS), we often focus on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) where millions of zombie machines overload a service by launching a tsunami of data. However, by abusing the algorithms a web application uses, an attacker can…