On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s lecture hall to give his fellow doctors advice, which could be summed up in three little words: wash your hands!

The urine test could help detect brain cancer earlier than traditional scans, improving patient survival.

Fortunately, David Warren kept working on his crash-proof flight data recorder

There are a number of things that people theoretically know how to do, but which aren’t possible because of how software gets made. Some of these are almost forgotten, but there are at least …

In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up...

Nature - Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Thursday it has revoked approvals for around 1,700 pieces of network equipment and communications devices manufactured by a nearly 400 companies, including China’s Huawei and Korea’s Samsung Electronics. The…

I met John Paragon, Jambi the genie on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, at the improvisational comedy group The Groundlings, where both our careers started. He was sly and wickedly funny. We became best friends instantly. In a group of exceptionally talented and […]

This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Apple forgot password endpoint that allowed me to takeover an iCloud account. The vulnerability is completely patched by Apple security team and it no longer works. Apple Security Team rewarded me $18,000…

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Most malware tries to steal stuff. Vigilante, by contrast, takes aim at piracy.

Originally an opal mining town, many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat.