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This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream…
An economic justice organization uses InFlow SNA software to reveal a slumlord conspiracy
Today's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. T...
Almost two years ago I noticed a strange multitouch problem in Mobile Safari with one of my games. This problem was new; it was introduced with the iOS 4.2.1 update and wasn't present on older iOS versions.
On 8 May 2012 The Netherlands adopted crucial legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet in The Netherlands. It is the first country in Europe to implement net neutrality in the law. In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection and wiretapping by providers. Dig
Wolfram|Alpha analyzes your Facebook data for free. Compute statistics: posting activity, most liked post, words most used, friends' geography, age and genders... more than a dozen reports.
This morning, HN user sw007 reached out the community to explain why he/she hates Hacker News . sw007 is not the first to notice the vile demeanor of the site but it was his/her post that got me thinking about how to improve the community I love.
As Congress and the President rush to re-authorize the dangerous FISA Amendments Act (FAA)—the law shamefully passed after pressure to legalize certain portions of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program—EFF has been sounding the alarm that Americans’ communications are still being...
I suppose I can't just leave my last post standing there as-is. I'll start by listing a bunch of things I consider facts about the GNOME project. I don't want to talk about solutions here, I just want to list them, because I don't think they are common knowledge. People certainly don't seem to talk...
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music Posted by timothy on Sunday February 26, @04:43PM from the estate-of-john-cage-winces-with-envy dept. New submitter eeplox writes “I make natu…
