noyb launched further action against Google’s AAID. The somewhat hidden ID allows Google and all apps on the phone to track a user and combine information about online and mobile behaviour.

French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.

The country's top nuclear official says a power outage at its Natanz site was "nuclear terrorism".

In this oddly paced "educational" video, I explain how I created a paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 that consists of only printable ASCII bytes, but is also a valid DOS executable. This involves making a C compiler that targets the printable subset of x86 (without…

In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.

Monitor your network and internet speed with Docker & Prometheus - geerlingguy/internet-monitoring

New York, NY (April 06, 2021) — A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the world’s first human tracheal transplant—an achievement that has the potential to save the lives of thousands of patients around the world who have tracheal birth defects, untreatable…

Author's Note After Release
I'm really blown away by the reception of this article. It has spread far wider
than I could have ever imagined. The many comments and discussions it has
prompted that essentially confirm what I believe is truth by not just fellow…

Main MiSTer binary and Wiki. Contribute to MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Space Force sent "red alerts" to OneWeb and SpaceX.

Technology doesn’t always turn out the way we’d expect.

A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure present in many common applications. Its purpose is answering the question: "is this item in the set?" very fast and not using a lot of space. The answers can be NO, or MAYBE YES. They work using hash functions…

Historical German units

systemd inhibitor locks are a really great way to have some control over the system state changes (shutdown, reboot, idle, suspend, etc.). The common use case for this is if you need to ensure that some pre-shutdown/suspend handling takes place before the…

Tokyo sees little risk from treated water, but locals fear consumer backlash

Introduction to the most famous equation in finance

Writer Ted Chiang (author of the fantastic Exhalation) was recently a guest on the Ezra Klein Show. The conversation ranged widely — I enjoyed his thoughts on superheroes — but his comments on capitalism and technology seem particularly relevant right now