Stories by alister

Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them?

Brian Kernighan (Coined Word “Unix”) Interviews Ken Thompson (Co-Invented Unix)

Drones Become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN)

How Differential Steering Works (1937)

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation (2003) [pdf]

A human has been injected with gene-editing tools to cure his disabling disease

Ghostery Celebrates GDPR Day by Revealing Hundreds of User Email Addresses

ISO blocks NSA's IoT encryption systems amid tales of backdoors and bullying

Pitfalls of India's biometric ID scheme already used by 1 billion Indians

The mysterious “laff box” invention of American sound engineer Charley Douglass

Edward Snowden's app to protect your laptop

Drug that doctors can track remotely approved by FDA

Nobody is learning Braille anymore: only 13% of blind students read it now

Hackers slipped malware into popular PC software CCleaner

Amazon recalls eclipse glasses

Thieves drain 2fa-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol

Cosmic ray added 4096 votes to electronic voting machine in Belgium in 2003

Research suggests appendix has purpose after all: reserve of emergency bacteria

Giving children computers basically does the opposite of what you expect

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for molecular machines

1
2