Is a process named triald stealing lots of CPU? Or maybe ~/Library/Trial is huge, or filling your backups? Maybe it’s all just one of Apple’s Experiments.

Why are we only hearing about a huge security flaw now?

Pointers are a fact of life for developers working in numerous languages.
It is often convenient to be able to associate a small
amount — a few bits at most — of ancillary information with a pointer.
This can often be done within the pointer value itself…

How many times have you told yourself that you’ll use the weekend to relax, only to find yourself stressed out and even more exhausted come…

This fresh new design trend has been picking up steam with the rising popularity of colorful inflated 3D graphics in web illustrations and with the latest Virtual Reality projects like “Horizon Worlds”. Let’s see if there is room for Claymorphism on the UI…

You can't fool me, young man. It's C all the way down!

Corruption is a truly global crisis and the wealth addiction that feeds it is hiding in plain sight

Much has been said about China leapfrogging ahead of the West in mobile payments and other mobile-first technologies. However, the downside to skipping the PC stage (and hence the open web) is often overlooked. Below, I highlight two unintended consequences…

In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding. In laypeople’s terms, this means that many academic studies considerably overestimate…

As sanctions and the wider impact of the Ukraine war cuts opportunities

More wheat stats. My personal favorite Misleading Wheat Stat is "Ukraine/Russia grow 25% of world wheat exports." Why's it misleading? It's technically true, but doesn't mean what people think! Missing wheat from the war is actually less than 1% of global…

It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…

People sometimes ask us whether Wave uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. An important part of the cryptocurrency narrative is that it can help financial inclusion—after all, it’s a way to put your money on a computer, with no legacy banks or regulators…

From 2006 until 2008, Apple sold one of the coolest Macs ever: the black MacBook. The black MacBook was sold alongside the more popular — and less expensive — white MacBook. The price difference between the white and black models is often brought up when…