Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which…

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My current record is 44 metres – there’s definitely a special technique

We investigate the unusual way memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction and how this interaction shapes software performance.

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector started commercial operations today (29th December 2023).

Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.

No good deed goes unpunished (at least in Europe) Those who know me know I wrote my first code in the early 80s, and though I never made a career...

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.

For years doctors in the US made little attempt to save the lives of premature babies, but there was one place distressed parents could turn for help - a sideshow on Coney Island.

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.

With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working.

When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile", we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analyzing compiler performance, and feeding an AI model the data until we had…

Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.

Researchers highlight suspicious activity

The THAT machine is designed to encourage you to go beyond digital

<em>Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association</em> is an open access journal covering a broad range of topics in agricultural and applied economics.

Koka Language Specification

This namespace provides access to the functions and constants necessary to activate and control event monitoring. As programs execute, events occur that might be of interest to tools that monitor e...

The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. The list skews toward innovative learning resources and tech career tips, but there is a little of everything. Data was scraped 2020-09-1 from the public favourites lists. This is…