If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that I have an inordinate fondness for the early days of this here World Wide Web. I have become disenchanted with social media, the infinite scroll, and not just Web 3.0, but even Web 2.0. React.js and other frameworks. Gimmie that good old HTML re Read more ›
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- JJ Wetherholt hit two home runs and had three RBI as the St. Louis Cardinals avoided a series sweep with a 12-10 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Read more ›
We are happy to announce that 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet intiative, across three different funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund, NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity. We congratulate the developers and engineers involved with these projects, and thank them for their forthcoming contribution to an open, resilient and human-centered internet. The selection covers the entire technology stack from trustworthy open hardware, to services & applications p... Read more ›
Data keeps growing exponentially, driving demand for better memory storage solutions. Synthetic DNA is a strong candidate to answer this need, given its high information density, durability and relevance as the molecule of life. Read more ›
ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) represented the first major functional expansion of the PDF format since 2008. While much industry discussion around the development of PDF 2.0 emphasized clarifications and cleanup, the more consequential story is the set of genuinely new capabilities introduced into the format. Read more ›
Seven summer reads from Western alumni, faculty and staff include IsThis a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin and My Person by Tea Mutonji. Read more ›
Granting the importance of this pioneering research, how can it best be promoted? The method of direct endowment will not work, for if you pay a man (sic) a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not been wasted. In promising work of the highest class, however, results do not come in this regular fashion, in fact years may pass without any tangible results being obtained, and the position of the paid work... Read more ›
Nine open source experts are joining the Sovereign Tech Agency at UN Open Source Week 2026 in New York. They maintain some of the world's most widely used open technologies, and they're bringing practitioner perspectives to an international forum on sustaining and securing open source infrastructure. For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency is bringing a delegation of open source maintainers to in New York. The people who actually build and maintain critical digital infrastructure are r... Read more ›
Provenance-enhanced statements of the form "according to $X$, $\varphi$" are pervasive in contemporary knowledge graphs, especially in domains where graph content primarily represents claims, interpretations, and hypotheses (\emph{capta}) rather than observer-independent facts (\emph{data}). Current provenance models can record who asserted what, but they typically treat provenance as semantically neutral, leaving underspecified how attributed c... Read more ›
Technology is automating much of what information management professionals have traditionally done: classifying, tagging, labeling, maintaining. That's not a threat if we're willing to evolve. The ability to absorb change, identify new opportunities, and play the human in the loop is going to define who thrives and who gets left behind. Read more ›
Why data sovereignty is now a board-level concern, and what technology leaders need to understand about jurisdictional risk, cloud architecture, and operational control. Read more ›
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software used i... Read more ›
By now, many of you have probably seen Linus Tech Tips’ “Linux is Easy, right?” video? The TL;DW version is that yes, things are mostly pretty easy, and the tasks they’re having trouble are becoming become less and less common over time… but pain points remain for the “prosumer/technology enthusiast” crowd: folks who are moderately … Continue reading Network shares: still talking about them in 2026 → Read more ›
In September 2026, Harriet Hellman contacted the Music Library to inquire about donating old sheet music that had been passed down through the family of her late husband, Samuel. In Harriet’s telling he had wanted to send it to Queens College because he had apparently read a story a decade or so ago in the New York Times about donating to the QC library (Note: I cannot find evidence of such an article). The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
The AI era is reshaping how data is created, stored and managed. As personal digital assets and creative content continue to expand, a growing number of users are upgrading their private storage devices to enhance data security, operational efficiency and long-term value. To help users upgrade their storage at a lower cost, TerraMaster, a global innovator of storage solutions, has launched an early limited-time promotion for Prime Day 2026. Running from June 17 to June 26, the event features ... Read more ›
This study compared isolate-level pathogen profiles, antimicrobial susceptibility, clinical characteristics, and mortality predictors between sepsis patients with and without coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and developed cohort-specific nomograms for in-hospital mortality. This retrospective intensive care unit (ICU) cohort included 608 adults with sepsis: 158 in group COVID-19 and 450 in group non–COVID-19. All patients were assessed for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (... Read more ›
Viewers have grown suspicious of anything that looks too polished, said Gael Aitor, the creative director of Grownkid, a social club for 18- to 24-year-olds. His event invitations are pixelated in the manner of his favorite childhood computer games, and often feature a “nasty” shade of green. Even the White House is sending out chaotic, lo-fi memes, he pointed out. The clean look that once signified sophistication now reeks of venture capital funding, or worse, artificial intelligence. “The w... Read more ›
Artificial intelligence is transforming phishing and DNS abuse, erasing the linguistic clues that once exposed scams. As attacks become personalised, automated and multilingual, governance frameworks are struggling to keep pace with a rapidly expanding threat surface. Read more ›
Parallelized DNA synthesis across a dense array of sites is crucial to high-throughput synthetic biology and diagnostics and could potentially be used for DNA-based data storage. Phosphoramidite synthesis can achieve substantial parallelism but relies on harmful solvents and centralized facilities. Enzymatic DNA synthesis in mild aqueous solution is safer and could be more accessible, but parallel demonstrations remain modest at an early stage. Here we show that a complementary metal–oxide–se... Read more ›