In the middle of the 1980s, Apple found itself with several options regarding the future of its computing platforms. The Apple II was the company’s bread and butter. The Apple III was pitched as an evolution of that platform, but was clearly doomed due to…

PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash, on Tuesday.

For those who didn't know Simon, he's responsible for PostgreSQL Binary Replication and many big data features. He and I worked together at Greenplum 2006-2008. Postgres…

This is not the proper way to stop piracy.
This is a gateway to censorship. - fuckpiracyshield

Cockpit is an interesting project for web-based Linux administration that has received relative [...]

Economists say the rising stock market is giving an added boost to consumer spending through what is known as the "wealth effect."

This year so far in NYC, car chases are down about 10% over the same period last year, according to police data.

In the 1960s, the CIA made a failed attempt to use bugged cats as spies. Secret Agent Kit E. Katt                            &n…

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First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.

Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic.

The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became optional.”

John Barnett died earlier this month in what the coroner called an apparent suicide, just before he was set to resume testifying in a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing.

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm that the universe appears to be expanding at different speeds.

Local residents who at first suspected gold or uranium deposits had been found are being won over by the initiative to protect nature and economically develop the areas involved

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