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Looking ahead to 2023, in addition to continuing to develop the educational arm of the charity, we aim to grow the collection further with a goal of rea...

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat…

Hiding files on a Mac can be a simple and effective way to safeguard your information, and here are the step-by-step instructions to achieve that. The fas...

I was recently asked about some software recommendations for a newly setup system to maintain the optimal state of the machine throughout its lifetime and po...

This page contains the list of technologies I use, both hardware & software. I have a single machine, Macbook Air M1, 2020 with specs as follows: ...

[Update: after this post was published, Eric Heath of AncestryDNA emailed us with concerns about the post’s content, considering the recent update to the site’s terms of service. As Hea…

Too often, media tracking apps feel like work. There’s too much effort involved in adding and browsing items, which makes them feel more like task managers than an inviting place that helps you decide how you want to spend your precious free time. Apps in this category seem to take one of a couple of

Teaming up with Erkin Karamemet of Dinamo, the studio recalls the bare-bones aesthetics of the early internet for its new identity.

From boarding school dramas to bisexual disaster comedies, the gang’s all here.

Hear me out.

Ezarik, best known on the internet as iJustine, is a megastar tech YouTuber with over 7 million subscribers. (She also has another 1.8 and 1.6 million more on Twitter and Instagram, respectively.) A year ago, she made waves by sharing her experience battling thoracic outlet syndrome.

Discord usernames are changing to remove four-digit discriminators. Display Names are being added so how you appear to other users stays the same. Read on for more info.

Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.

How to create an iOS Scriptable widget that displays the bird visitors in your backyard.

I’ve stayed on the sidelines of much of the LLM debate, but I’m willing to stake out my skepticism on this “world changing” technology. As I think back over the arch of my online life, I see these foundational models as the latest in a series of events where amazing technology was going to change the world. But each time individual value is diluted for corporate money grabs. Going way back in time, my first real formative experience on the internet was Geocities. When a friend showed me that I could write an HTML file and make it show up on the internet I was hooked. It was magic to me that I could make something the whole world could see. I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of how to make these sites.

iPadOS 17 will reportedly include a handful of notable changes for iPad users. Rumors suggest the update will bring enhancements...

Visual artist Marc Horowitz discusses the value of multitasking, finding clarity through sobriety, and why it's beneficial to stop thinking of your creative practice as a competition.

Imagining the possibilities with the return of a native landscape orientation to the iPhone.

“Accelerated Mobile Pages” succeeded in speeding up publishers’ mistrust of the search giant.

FSCI's statement on banning of Free Software apps like Element and Briar

Here’s how, in seven steps, I built my first browser extension with GitHub Copilot—and my three major takeaways about learning and pair programming in the age of AI.

Call it ‘queerbaiting’ if you must, but nightlife needs to face up to the problem.

Are you using Git a lot from the command line? Isn’t it annoying that you have to open a browser and click your way to the GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps repo website to create a pull request or do something else that can’t be done in your shell?To solve that problem, I have a […]

Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto discusses the factors that influenced the making of his first new record in nearly a decade, how your creative inclinations change over time, and the ways in which geography can influence what you make.

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

Workers say now is the time to do the impossible.

“If we turn this career into a gig, into a hobby, the people who are going to be able to do it are the people who have generational wealth and privilege and are just doing this for fun.”