While looking at maps of rural New York State, roughly 70 miles northwest of Manhattan, near the border with New Jersey, I noticed a series of small communities called “Islands.” Pine Island, Maple…

Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.

Experts claim retail is dead, but the "vertical centers" and "food halls" in America’s densest city just keep coming.

How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software
engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done
mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before.

Uber, however, had an official…

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Thimerosal generates ethylmercury in aqueous solution and is widely used as preservative. We have investigated the toxicology of Thimerosal in normal human astrocytes, paying particular attention to mitochondrial function and the generation of specific ...

We didn’t think we needed a basic guide to diodes until we saw it was from [W2AEW], and then we knew we’d pick up some new things. Entitled “Diodes from Ideal to Real” the 1…

In a12-hour evolution on Saturday, the Boskalis semi-submersible heavy lift ship BOKA Vanguard succe...

For more than two centuries the huge profits and profound suffering of the Manila Galleons helped create global capitalism

Found a @facebook #security & #privacy issue. When the app is open it actively uses the camera. I found a bug in the app that lets you see the camera open behind your feed. Note that I had the camera pointed at the carpet. https://t.co/B8b9oE1nbl

A tourist discovered her Airbnb rental was actually in a public housing complex.

DRM comes for us all

Fractl created a fake marketing blog in less than an hour using publicly available AI tools. The implications for content on the web are frightening.

Found a @facebook #security & #privacy issue. When the app is open it actively uses the camera. I found a bug in the app that lets you see the camera open behind your feed. Note that I had the camera pointed at the carpet.

Many community-based Linux distributions have made the decision to switch
to systemd, and most of those decisions were accompanied by lengthy,
sometimes acrimonious mailing-list discussions. No distribution had a
harder time of it than Debian, though, where…

Vladimir Nabokov on Apostrophes

There’s almost always more than one way to get any particular job done. Suppose for instance you have a tank you fill up from a well, and you’d like to know when the time is right to re…