A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. It was definitely a first for me, and I was kindly granted permission to outline the events in this blog post. This investigation started scary but turned out be quite…

Technical competence matters for managers.

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There’s been a lot of hand-wringing over The Technical Interview lately. Many people realize that inverting a binary tree on a whiteboard has basically zero correlation to whether or not someone is actually a good software developer. The most effective programming…

Kangina is simple but effective.

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is the oldest surviving…

40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD’s kernel—we examine how.

Although it has an extraordinarily poor track record, killing off the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter entirely will prove difficult.

It’s all about owning an online community.

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Bright lights, big city.

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: Max Porter, with thanks. If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise: a third of England’s woodlands are owned by just a thousand landowner…

The group that surrounded the late Zappos boss comprised a dozen or so men and women drawing salary and commissions from his $840 million fortune. They helped sustain his drug habit, protected him from outsiders and lived off his largess.

Documents provided to the Intercept published after the company denied reports delivery workers lack access to bathrooms