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…

We’ve hosted over 100K technical interviews at interviewing.io. Here are the companies whose engineers are really good at technical interviews.

Lebanon is bursting with crypto mining shops, traders and online mentors to fulfill the surging demand from people desperately looking to gain financial freedom and much-needed US dollars.

Today we're launching Edge Functions. Edge Functions let you execute Typescript code close to your users, no matter where they're located.

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The most useless second monitor possible

Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß  of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit ...

Go tooling and design help mitigate supply chain attacks at various stages.

I’ve done some crazy things in my life, but as I’ve said, the absolute craziest was deciding to open a bookstore. Running a small business is always difficult, running a small business during a pandemic is damn near impossible but a small town book store…

When discussing scams and social engineering attacks, it's easy for security experts to imply the victims of these attacks should have known better. And, as much as we may like to think we'd handle these situations so much better, that's just not true.