Collaborate Disseminate
Inside the obsessive circuit board culture at the heart of the world’s largest hacker conference. Continue reading A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source Linux operating system, apologized for his “lifetime of not understanding emotions” and “flippant attacks in emails.” Continue reading Creator of Linux Apologizes For Being a Jerk and Says He’s Working on ‘Understanding Emotions’
Observing the light from neutron stars provided a baseline to measure the effects of extra dimensions on the propagation of gravitational waves through space. Continue reading Gravitational Waves Show No Evidence of Extra Dimensions
The latest film in Jeremy Corbell’s ‘Extraordinary Beliefs’ series digs into the history of Skinwalker Ranch, an alleged hotbed of UFO activity formerly owned by Robert Bigelow. Continue reading ‘Hunt for the Skinwalker’ Is the First Video Released From UFO-Obsessed Billionaire’s Haunted Ranch
The terminology has been a point of contention in the tech community for nearly two decades and now it was just removed from one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Continue reading ‘Master/Slave’ Terminology Was Removed from Python Programming Language
Lawmakers exempted non-commercial and smaller platforms from the directive, but opponents of the law still worry that it will lead to greater censorship on the internet. Continue reading EU Passes Controversial Copyright Law With ‘Link Taxes’
In a passionate speech delivered at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the UN chief said we are “careening towards the abyss” and announced a 2019 climate summit. Continue reading UN Secretary-General Says We Have A Year and a Half to Avoid ‘Runaway’ Climate Change
Reddit’s data hoarding community is all too familiar with massive archival projects, but collecting all of YouTube’s metadata presents some unique challenges. Continue reading This Data Hoarder Is Downloading the Metadata of Roughly 10 Billion YouTube Videos
Researchers at Lancaster University have use an active acoustic side-channel attack to steal smartphone passwords for the first time. Continue reading Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker to Steal Unlock Passwords
Only a day after a software developer decided to revoke access to a popular open source program from any organization that collaborated with ICE, he was booted from the group and the license was changed back. Continue reading Open Source Devs Reverse Decision to Block ICE Contractors From Using Software