Let's catch on some non-coronavirus research today with an interesting approach against a very bad disease, metastatic colon cancer. This new paper (from groups at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest) adds to our understanding of something that's been noticed for…

By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.

MineSweeper implemented in CSS + HTML using the Space Toggle trick (no JavaScript!) - propjockey/css-sweeper

A business model that seemed marginal before the coronavirus pandemic now looks like the future of restaurants, Anna Wiener writes.

A beautiful and accessible guitar component for React.

Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. Ion was built to address rapid development, decoupling, and efficiency challenges faced every day while engineering…

Also fake takeovers, betas and private-company fraud.

As universities are switching to 100% remote teaching in the coming semester, many undergraduate students should strongly consider getting a “DIY” CS degree: take the same courses you would at your own school, but on any one of the online Massive Open Online…

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week's epic hack against Twitter. These individuals said they were only customers of the person…

First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used in a phishing attack on another leading genealogy site.

Web framework + self-hosted deployment solution for Clojure

ssh keys are your auth. no email or password required. repos are private by default. the cli is the ui. huzzah!

Names, credit card data, addresses, and information on transactions as recent as yesterday are being sold online.

Gnuplot 5.4 has been released,
three years after the last major release of the free-software
graphing program.
In this article we will take a look at five major new capabilities in gnuplot.
First, we briefly visit voxel plotting, for visualizing 3D data.…

Well, I was writing just the other day about what we don't know about the T-cell response to coronavirus infection, and as of today we know quite a bit more. And from what I can see, we have encouraging news, mixed with some things that we're going to need…

Here are all of V. Rose's testimonia  of a work attributed to Aristotle called Magic ( ὁ Μαγικός λόγος, or τὸ μαγικόν?). The title either refers to the art practised by the Magi (the Zoroastrian priests from Persia), or it refers to the fact that the discussion…