Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

What kind of OS is CuerdOS? 'CuerdOS' is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed by a team in Spain. The codename for the latest major update is 'Skycatcher'. It's the name of a Cessna aircraft.

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

The Fedora Project is working on a change that could speed up your system’s boot time and save disk space. Starting with Fedora Linux 43, the project plans to compress the initial ramdisk (initrd) ...

Many people like ASCII format. USDC binary(Crate format) is compact, but not human friendly. As of 2025, zstd is commonly used compression algorithm for generic data ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...