It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The obvious solution: a video doorbell! I looked around and ended up buying … Read more
Last week, Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression, or JAWBONE Act. The bipartisan legislation creates a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce or attempt to coerce broadcasters, … Read more
26 May 2026 3 min read Gwendolyn Rak is an assistant editor at IEEE Spectrum covering consumer electronics and careers. Leontien Talboom led a year-long project to develop better guidelines on accessing and preserving floppy disk data. ELEANOR PARMENTER/CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY … Read more
what their algorithm was, and as it turned out they had developed similar techniques, based on carefully adjusting the angle at which the bicycle is leaning. Based on the reports of the humans, the two-neuron network controller was implemented, and … Read more
The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of health based on the shape, size and texture of feces. So did the Egyptians, the Greeks and nearly every ancient culture. Even today, your doctor may ask when you last had a … Read more
More than a decade ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I went through a period of deep uncertainty. I had tried the previous year and hadn’t gotten in anywhere. I wanted to try again, but I had a … Read more
Posted by matz on 17 Oct 2025 Dear Ruby community, RubyGems and Bundler are essential official clients for rubygems.org and the Ruby ecosystem, bundled with the Ruby language for many years and functioning as part of the standard library. Despite … Read more
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three … Read more
Executive Summary In recent months, SentinelOne has observed and defended against a spectrum of attacks from financially motivated crimeware to tailored campaigns by advanced nation-state actors. These incidents were real intrusion attempts against a U.S.-based cybersecurity company by adversaries, but … Read more
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to deliver promised savings, and made it difficult for users to cancel … Read more