Animals can adapt quickly to survive adverse environmental conditions. Evidence is mounting to show that plants can, too. An article details how plants are rapidly adapting to the adverse effects of climate change, and how they are passing down these adaptations…

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not…

Andddd Twitter just announced to employees via email that it is closing offices until next Monday and disabling badge access for folks.

The criminal complaint against two alleged operators of Z-Library suggests that security wasn't high on their list of priorities

Bankruptcy filings released Thursday morning detailing billions in loans to Bankman-Fried, including to an entity he controlled. Here’s where at least some of that money likely went.

"From my larger group of 50 people, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance. Elon set up meetings with a few who plan to quit."

I don't blame people quitting. They've been offered intimidation, ever-changing policies the last minute, long hours, and…

A new study by researchers at the University of Melbourne has analyzed adverse effects reported by users of the hallucinogenic tea, ayahuasca.

Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.

Textbooks can be prohibitively expensive.

It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.

Scientific Reports - Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called "Zeppelin" in May 2020. He'd been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things,…

How a misunderstood platform has completely taken over the world.

Levy shares how she wrote the five-page document that underpins much of early-stage venture capital today.

Reflexes start to decline in your 20s, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be competitive at first-person shooters any more. Keith Stuart shares some hard-won knowledge

One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?

There were many languages that pre-dated Fortran. This series is based on the white paper by Knuth and Pardo published in 1976, “The early development of programming languages”. In this paper the a…