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This year (2016) I accepted as much incident response work as I could. I spent about 300 hours responding to security incidents and data…

Physarum molds have no neurons, but they can solve mazes and make decisions. And by merging together, they can share memories.

You can finally get an answer on those strange Windows error codes through Microsoft’s troubleshooting site, Fix Windows Update Errors.

Update: There is a nice discussion on Hacker News about this blog post. As a developer I think it is important to stay up to date with new…

From design firm Blind Ltd, the user interface graphics they did for Rogue One. They had some graphics from the original Star Wars to play off of, but this is still really nice work. Blind also did onscreen interfa

BLIND is a creative agency specialising in user interface design and moving image solutions for major feature films productions

ARI Legacy Sleepers manufactures high-end custom sleepers for semi trucks.

We are going to use GitHub Archive, GHTorrent, population statistics and BigQuery to find the answer.

Anchormen, chairs, dogs, flowers, and comets are things: If I have one anchorman and add another, I have two anchormen. My chair did not exist until it was assembled into that form. And if a comet hits Paraguay, it is no longer a comet. Helium, gravy, wood, music, and joy are stuff: If some helium escapes my balloon, it seems wrong to say that I’ve lost a thing. If I divide my gravy into two portions, it’s still gravy. And if I chop my cabin into firewood, the amount of wood in the world does not seem to have changed....

Hi folks, I’m writing today about plotting geojson files with Matplotlib’s Basemap.  In a previous post I laid out how to plot shapefiles using Basemap. geojson is an open file format for represent…

In “Sensation Seeking, Sports Cars, and Hedge Funds” Three business school researchers analyze a huge data-set of previous and current hedge-funds that have been hand-matched with the v…

Ryan McGeehan, who specializes in helping companies recover from data-breaches, reflects on the worst year of data breaches (so far) and has some sound practical advice on how to reduce your risk a…

Monitoring is the hidden hero inside container infrastructure. Much like driving a car, we don’t think about what’s happening under the hood until something goes wrong. We want to pivot away from being reactive with our infrastructure and container problems and move to a more proactive state of operation using monitoring insights to keep us up…

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UK design firm Blind successfully makes old aesthetics feel fresh

Recent technological advancements have led to a number of cost-effective video surveillance solutions. IP cameras (devices that can capture and stream video over an...

A commenter named dwb left this comment: The “technological change” that killed coal jobs is the 1-2-3 punch of cheap natural gas, low electricity demand, and Obama’s war on fossil fuels. At least he doesn't blame trade.  Even so, this is basically false---except for very recently, coal jobs have been lost to automation. Here's employment in the coal industry: It's even worse than

The Day After was a horrifying portrait of nuclear war, and remains the highest rated television movie in history.