Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (threadreaderapp.com)
HN by LinuxBender 3 hours ago 264 comments
Jeff Bezos likes to start fires then cosplay as a firefighter. His $10 billion climate change check is no different: Last year, Bezos ostensibly donated out of the good of his heart to Seattle's homeless shelters—while Amazon aggressively lobbied the city to drop a tax which would help the homeless (independent.co.uk)
RD by itsmyusersname 5 hours ago 609 comments
IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland (foxbusiness.com)
HN by TwoFactor 2 hours ago 140 comments
IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland (foxbusiness.com)
RD by inmyelement 11 hours ago 578 comments
Microsoft's Office App That Replaces Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Hits General Availability (venturebeat.com)
SD by msmash 6 hours ago 12 comments
Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) (changelog.com)
HN by Tomte 1 hour ago 25 comments
A new world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity using quantum dots (phys.org)
RD by cake_donut 7 hours ago 14 comments
Malaysian Firm Offers AI-Based Profiling of Chinese Visitors for Virus (reuters.com)
SD by msmash 6 hours ago 5 comments
Let's Encrypt has just turned on stricter validation requirements (community.letsencrypt.org)
HN by mmoez 1 hour ago 22 comments
America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill - We should be asking the government and corporate America how we got here. Instead, we just keep handing over our money. (vox.com)
RD by speckz 1 day ago 1382 comments
Ontario's New License Plates Have A Problem: You Can't Read Them (npr.org)
SD by msmash 7 hours ago 66 comments
Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months (krebsonsecurity.com)
HN by feross 1 hour ago 16 comments
The Computer Scientist Responsible For Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away (gizmodo.com)
RD by zmose 1 hour ago 11 comments
Europe Takes on China, US With Plan To Regulate Global Tech (bloomberg.com)
SD by msmash 8 hours ago 48 comments
Entire Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code is now in the public domain (github.com)
HN by rahuldottech 1 hour ago 10 comments
Hackers stuck a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed sign and successfully tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85 mph (businessinsider.com)
RD by KovaAtWork 2 hours ago 39 comments
Adobe Photoshop Completes 30 Years, Launches New AI-Powered Features (thenextweb.com)
SD by msmash 8 hours ago 17 comments
How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
HN by petercooper 5 hours ago 111 comments
Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize in a Big Step for Tech: Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so. (nytimes.com)
RD by Fuzier 18 hours ago 62 comments
Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb (electronupdate.blogspot.com)
HN by teucris 2 hours ago 83 comments
Brits build plasma-powered 100,000 MPH rocket engine halving Mars travel time (express.co.uk)
RD by caffiend2 11 hours ago 33 comments
Driver Stranded After Connected Rental Car Can't Call Home (arstechnica.com)
SD by BeauHD 13 hours ago 197 comments
Wearable Microphone Jamming (sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu)
HN by RandomGuyDTB 37 minutes ago 6 comments
Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council (theregister.co.uk)
RD by randomusefulbits 5 hours ago 3 comments
Researchers Combine Lasers and Terahertz Waves In Camera That Sees 'Unseen' Detail (phys.org)
SD by BeauHD 16 hours ago 21 comments
The Problem with Palm Oil (ethical.net)
HN by hispanic 2 hours ago 79 comments
US natural gas operator shuts down for 2 days after being infected by ransomware (arstechnica.com)
RD by MyNameIsGriffon 14 hours ago 26 comments
Why Are HIV Drugs Being Used To Treat the New Coronavirus? (gizmodo.com)
SD by BeauHD 19 hours ago 98 comments
Intro To Pattern Matching – Covers C# 9 (c-sharpcorner.com)
HN by alugili 2 hours ago 35 comments
In the 1970s, the CIA Created a Robot Dragonfly Spy. Now We Know How It Works. | Newly released documents show how the CIA created one of the world's first examples of insect robotics. (popularmechanics.com)
RD by MortWellian 10 hours ago 6 comments
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