The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said today that it has raided and shut down the operations of the REvil ransomware gang.

We’ve been using a Sony Vaio VGN-P588E for the past few months as our primary personal laptop. This thing’s great; it’s got a small but not uncomfortable keyboard. It’s got a trackpoint, which we absolutely need to keep our hands healthy. Crucially, it’s…

The subpoenas demand that Facebook, Google, Reddit and Twitter turn over more information about what they did and didn't do in the lead-up to Jan. 6.

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C++20 is here and has been supported in MSVC since 16.11, but today’s post is not about how you can use it, but rather how we used it to effectively eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs by hoisting a check into compile-time. Let’s get right into it!…

Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology.

A quantum phenomenon predicted in 1959, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, also applies to gravity.

Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed

Interesting news has just come out about a possible cause for multiple sclerosis. That has been a huge area of research over the years, with all kinds of hypotheses being advanced (genetic, environmental, immunological, infectious agents, and combinations…

@Flotonix @roguetrick @Reddit It seems to only give the blocked messgae on firefox. Works with other browsers.

MMAP Databases = 💩

For centuries, book-makers, printers, furniture-makers and, now, programmers have worked to answer: how do you find what you need in a book?

I started 2022 with a mini batch at the Recurse Center. I did a full batch in Fall 2020, and hanging out with people working on their side projects full time seems like a fun way to kick off the year.

If innovative reactor designs can't pass muster with the federal government, the U.S. nuclear industry is in trouble.