Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Drama About C++ Paper’s Title

Reddit’s moderators drew some criticism after “locking” a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked discussion) had led to a submission for Slashdot’s queue of potential (but unpublished) stories, w… Continue reading Unpublished Slashdot Submission Dragged Into Reddit Drama About C++ Paper’s Title

MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game ‘ChipWits’ from 1984 is Now Open Source

Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits “helped kindle his interest in coding,” according to an online biography. (“By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics… Continue reading MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game ‘ChipWits’ from 1984 is Now Open Source

America’s DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports – and Seizing Their Cash

America’s Justice Department “has ordered all consensual searches by drug enforcement agents conducted at the nation’s airports stopped,” reports Georgia’s local TV station Atlanta News First — after their series of investigations “uncovered how … Continue reading America’s DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports – and Seizing Their Cash