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The classic UNIX magic poster by Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences and featured a white bearded wizard with UNIX related things around him,...
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…
Fake image-generating app allowed man to download 1.1TB of Disney-owned data.
The open source "Jarvis" chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.
The Settings app has taken over, but Control Panels aren’t going anywhere yet.
Winamp released its source code with a license that drew a lot of attention. That’s when other apps’ code was found inside.
With soldered RAM and eMMC storage, this is not “a consumer-ready experience.”…
In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.
The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.
If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.
Ig Nobel-winning research could one day be used to treat people with blocked airways or clogged lungs.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2110.01834: Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition
Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.
Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool