Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

Moore's Law makes it seem as if resource limitations are always a minor consideration. If there will be twice as much memory for the same price in 18 months, why bother to squeeze a factor of 2 from an application's memory requirements? If the CPU will be…

How I make it work (or not)

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Carlos Ghosn, the fallen automotive titan facing trial for financial crimes, fled to Lebanon to escape what he called Japan’s “rigged” justice system.

For the 150th weekly article on this site, and the last one before the end of the decade, let’s look back at how Swift has fundamentally changed the way apps for Apple’s platforms are built, and where things might be going from here.

IBM expects container platforms will continue to shrink to help reduce the overall attack surface and to run more efficiently on edge computing platforms.

His family hasn’t heard from him in seven months

It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) will no longer use an intellectual property licensing scheme, known as the “Double Irish, Dutch sandwich”, which allowed it to delay paying U.S. taxes, 2018 tax filings show.

What lesson can we learn from a failed space mission in 1960? The lesson that components matter!

Business Insider - The "front" between the calm air outside the fire zone and the storm cloud is so sharp that it can generate lightning — and that can start new fires.. Read more at businessinsider.sg

Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat

Update: I’ve updated the section on Cryptographic Doom at the end of the article after clarifications from the age author. That specific criticism was based on my misreading of the age spec. Age is…

a gcc-based cross-compiler for classic 68K and PPC Macintoshes - autc04/Retro68