NPM flooded with 748 packages that store movies
Meet npmjs.com, a video and eBook hosting platform — not our words, but it seems that’s what goes in the mind of some users (and attackers) recently seen misusing the platform to store media like multi-gig movies, videos, and eBooks.
‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
When Dr Art Van Zee finally understood the scale of the disaster looming over his corner of rural Virginia, he naively imagined the drug industry would be just as alarmed. So the longest serving doctor in the struggling former mining town of St Charles set out in the early 2000s to tell pharmaceutical executives, federal […]
The company that sells your lost airplane luggage
This story was originally published on July 11, 2020. Imagine this: An airline loses your checked bag. After an extensive search, customer support comes up empty-handed. They compensate you and life goes on. But life goes on for your suitcase, too. Written off as “unclaimed,” it sits in a musty collection depot for 3 months. […]
The Nigerian professor who makes more money welding
By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Zaria Kabir Abu Bilal is not your regular Nigerian university professor – he has a second job working as a welder in the northern city of Zaria. Welding is widely seen as a menial job across Nigeria and he has shocked many – especially his colleagues – by opening up […]
Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024
Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext. It is a low-bandwidth text standard that used to be sent via the hidden black border on TV signals. BBC Micro and Master computers had a Teletext character generator chip and mode, which they actually booted into by default. Therefore, […]
‘Eno’ Review: A portrait of Brian Eno that is different each time you watch it
Even next to David Bowie, with his alien regalia and mutating persona, it was Brian Eno who always seemed like the supreme spaceman of the pop-music universe. In 1972, when he first came onto the scene as the 24-year-old synthesizer wizard of Roxy Music, he sported a look that was pure glam, except that he […]
The Plot Against Einstein
By Eric Niderost When Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California, in early 1933, he was to take up his duties as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology for about three months. CalTech President Robert Millikan had made all the arrangements for the world famous theoretical physicist, but Einstein discovered there was a small […]
Hacker News’ favorite Xkcd comics
Ever wondered what is Hacker News’ favorite xkcd comic? Wonder no more! Here is how I answered this important question. (By favorite, I mean the most cited.) There’s a publicly available dataset on BigQuery — Google’s big data analytics platform. From https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combinator/hacker-news: This dataset contains all stories and comments from Hacker News from its launch […]
Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm
/ Google has started testing an ARM64 version of Chrome that will dramatically improve performance on Arm-based Windows devices. a]:text-gray-13″>If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>An ARM64 native version of Chrome on Windows 11.
The right way to sauce pasta (2016)
“I’ll have a glass of the grappa, please,” I said to the bartender at the Italian restaurant down the street from my house. Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt “You are the first person I have ever seen order that,” she exclaimed in response. I asked her how long she’d been working there, figuring it […]