Stories by shawndumas

Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?

Swapped: font smoothing project

How Are People Really Using Their LinkedIn Profiles?

Looking at Toxoplasmosis

We have 100 invites to Spotify, and we’re giving them away right now

Creative piracy: the movies are free, it's the DVD cases that cost money

Apple loses against Kodak as it gets initial win against HTC

Id Software's John Carmack sticks up for Call of Duty

History of Unix and Linux

Address space layout randomization (ASLR)

Android 3.2 rolling out to some Xooms, SDK released

Seven under-the-radar Lion features you might have missed

The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam?

Mozilla's BrowserID aims to simplify authentication on the Web

Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats

iOS 4.3.4 jailbroken with PwnageTool on iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad 1

US military strategy: we'll halt hackers with "cyber hygiene"

Automated shoulder surfing makes it easier to steal passwords (video)

What a Modern Car Should Be – 1902 Déjà Vu

Android reaches 130 million devices, growing by 550,000 a day