Let’s take a brief trip back to our school years and recall some lessons in mathematics and physics. Do you remember what the number π equals? And what is π squared? That’s a strange question too. Of course, it’s 9.87. And do you remember the value of the acceleration due to gravity, g? Of course, that number was drilled into our memory so thoroughly that it’s impossible to forget: 9.81 m/s². Naturally, it can vary, but for solving basic school problems, we typically used this value.

Imagine this: an OpenSSH backdoor is discovered, maintainers rush to push out a fixed release package, security researchers trade technical details on mailing lists to analyze the backdoor code. Speculation abounds on the attribution and motives of the attacker, and the tech media pounces on the story. A near miss

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In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.

The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

A world lost under 34 million years of ice recently discovered by scientists

The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.

This was a road trip hours long & weeks in the making. Thanks to several of my friends & acquaintances posting about it on Bluesky, I had heard that the lege...

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.

I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The 'as-close-to-possible'

How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987. The Berlin Wall still stands, the World Wide Web is just text, and software is distributed through USENET newsgroups in […]

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