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After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years…
I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. …
I've recently completed a project to compile publicly-available NFL play-by-play data. It took a while, but now it's ready. The resulting ...
Most PG&E ratepayers don't understand how much higher the rates they pay are than what it actually costs PG&E to generate and transmit the electricity to their house. When I looked into this recently I was shocked. The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes up from there …
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can…
If there is one thing that never ceases to amaze me it is that the hacker community tends to place itself outside and by their own perception above politics. This is evidenced in many ways including ‘safe spaces’ and moratoria on discussing anything political because it has no bearing on the more interesting bits of…
The problems with social media platforms in 'human' and 'data' terms. Deleting Facebook (Meta), WhatsApp, and Instagram will have a net positive effect.
I’ve kept it to myself for years, but now I believe the only way to fight the stigma of mental illness is to talk about my own.
If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription
Bose Corporation will remain private and independent; dividends will sustain and advance MIT’s mission.
Mandarin version by Misaka Clover | Japanese version The first time I came to Shanghai, in 2017, I was amazed by how developed the city was. My only other Asian experience was Mumbai, and compared to that, Shanghai was clean and organized. I was amazed by how you could pay for a laundrette with […]
The number one question that people ask once you tell them you’re considering early retirement is: What will you do with your time?
Bots have taken over
The Atlassian Customer Agreement governs our Cloud and Data Center product offerings under a single, simplified contract for all customers.
The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for “intelligence”) worship at the altar of youth. I don̵…
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
In March 2022, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 members of the museum’s security team.
We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion. I love Aaron. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it…
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
SANTA FE, NM (April 7, 2021) – Today, New Mexico became the second state in the nation to abolish qualified immunity when Governor Lujan Grisham signed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act into law. In addition to eliminating qualified immunity, this historic legislation will allow New Mexicans – including the wrongfully…
