Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than

I tried to make the perfect moral choice every time. It eroded my humanity.

The Standard Model is a sweeping equation that has correctly predicted the results of virtually every experiment ever conducted, as Quanta explores in a new video.

Mike Johns was on his way to the airport when the Waymo robotaxi began circling a parking lot non-stop

#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has informed us they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on "JavaScript". Next: they’ll file their Answer and we’ll start discovery to show how "JavaScript" is widely recognized as a generic term and not controlled by…

Streets GL is a OpenStreetMap 3D renderer that allows to explore the whole world in great detail

github: https://github.com/Ocean-Moist/rohlang3 I’ve long been obsessed with minimalistic languages that still manage to have expressive power. My usual approach: start with a bare-bones combinator calculus (like SK), then keep adding “one more extension”…

[CC BY-NC-SA] A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development - 2DGD-F0TH/2DGD_F0TH

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang…

We describe how Cloudflare uses a custom Lisp-like programming language and formal verifier (written in Racket and Rosette) to prevent logical contradictions in our authoritative DNS nameserver’s behavior.

At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines…

It was six months after my trek through the cloud forests of Peru when I learned I'm not supposed to hike in jeans.

At least it's what I was told, on a different mountain range and continent, by a Seattleite guide who volunteered to lead a group of hikers…

Summary of the things that have happened in the Servo project since January 2023 when Igalia started to maintain it.

There’s this old video from 2009 that’s been going viral on Twitter recently.

Debouncing switches and contacts is surprisingly subtle. This page shows actual bounce characteristics of a number of switches and gives code to debounce them.