Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has released the ISC Computer Science (Subject Code - 868) for the Year 2027 evaluation cycle. It is designed specifically to make ...

Is Linux Kernel 7.2 really 43 million lines? We verified the count with wc, cloc, tokei, and scc tools and explain why the ...

PixelSmash is a vulnerability in the FFmpeg framework that can be exploited via crafted media files for remote code execution ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act ...

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

Although most people have fast internet access nowadays, sending large files and amounts of data remains a problem. This is because free e-mail services such as Outlook.com or Gmail limit the data ...

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research from astrophysicists at the University of Lancashire. Binary stars are common ...

The 79-year-old president held a conspicuous cheat sheet written in marker during his Tuesday press conference, but still stumbled while trying to read through his talking points Aaron ...

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