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It is well understood that concurrency makes programming problems harder; the high level of concurrency inherent in kernel development is one of the reasons why kernel work can be challenging. Things can get even worse, though, if concurrent access happens in places where the code is not expecting it. The long story accompanying this short patch from Christian Brauner is illustrative of the kind of problem that can arise when assumptions about concurrency prove to be incorrect.

On doing glue work, a critical role that is too often considered expendable.

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

The BBC has launched social.bbc.

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is growing frustrated with AMD fTPM hardware random number generator bugs on recent Ryzen systems plaguing the kernel and has expressed a desire in disabling its use.

American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.

Invited beta participants from select countries can test new PS5 features.

In which I rewrite my toy pygit client in Go to see how suitable Go is for simple scripts.

NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.

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The chamber's version of this year's National Defense Authorization Act would order up a third-party assessment of establishing a cyber-specific military service.

"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."

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Intel management has told investors that the company's turnaround will take time, and that it is aiming to match TSMC's chip-manufacturing prowess by 2026.

"This is quite unique, what we are doing here."

The Voyagers were launched nearly half a century ago.

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The App Store review process is very strict to ensure that apps comply with Apple’s guidelines. And soon, this whole...

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules Wednesday requiring companies that it regulates to quickly disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents and share the details of their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance with the commission on an annual basis.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. In 1973, Roy Amara hired a team at Stanford Research Institute to investigate how scientists were using ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet that was only four years old at the time. They found that scientists were not only using the network for work but also for personal matters (one scientist realized he forgot his razor at an overseas conference and used ARPANET to request it bac

Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

So far this year, the “Big Five” most valuable U.S. tech companies have made just five known startup acquisitions, per Crunchbase data.

CardioComm, a Canadian company which provides heart-monitoring technology to hospitals and consumers, has revealed that it has been forced to take its systems offline following a cyberattack.