The Simulation Argument posed by Bostrom suggests that we may be living inside a sophisticated computer simulation. If posthuman civilizations eventually have both the capability and desire to generate such Bostrom-like simulations, then the number of simulated…

Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation It's been one step forward, two back for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. Even as the company rebutted criticism of its efficacy claims last week, a bigger problem loomed for the vaccine…

The novel pandemic betacoronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected at least 120 million people since its identification as the cause of a December 2019 viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. Despite the unprecedented…

The vaccine was able to target the desired immune cells and could become the first stage of a multi-step vaccine strategy to combat HIV.

Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported "breach" at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary, "Hemingway," dramatizes one of the great revolutions in the history of American literature.

Secure Vault for Customer PII/PHI/PCI/KYC Records. Contribute to securitybunker/databunker development by creating an account on GitHub.

Crosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.

UPDATED with IBM's response: Believe it or not, SCO's ancient and long disproved copyright claims that Linux was copied from Unix are returning in a new lawsuit by Xinuos vs IBM and Red Hat.

Every breached website added to Have I Been Pwned appears here on the Who’s Been Pwned page. As of today, there are 938 breached sites listed.

Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism

The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021.

You may not know this Canadian documentarian, but Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas sure did.

I wouldn’t call what’s happening a meltdown exactly, maybe more of a collective moment of clarity. Right now on Reddit’s r/teslamotors forum there’s an intense and very serious conversation about the now-$10,000 level 2 driver assist package that Tesla calls…

In an email conversation, Ray Ozzie and I talked about all the writing tools of the 80s that didn't transiiton to the web.

A creator case study