Someone's trash is another person's web server.

Socket detected multiple compromised CrowdStrike npm packages, continuing the "Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack that has now impacted nearly 500 packag...

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it…

An open letter, or something

Cats and Dogs, living together!

Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us.

The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

For many people, Corning is synonymous with PYREX — and Pyrex. But how does PYREX vs. Pyrex compare? What are the differences? Find out here.

You've probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream cipher 😱?
Today I learned there are more “Latin capital letter A”
Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet....

The unlikely story of the African frogs that made themselves at home in a corner of Wales.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic scheme that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, as if the data were in plaintext. After all computations are...

Map of San Francisco parking cops and their recent tickets

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they w...