"aggressive pan-europäische Kampagne" gegen ACTA bezeichnet, die von einer demokratisch nicht legitimierten Internetgemeinde getragen werde.

In Island fand ein einzigartiges politisches Experiment statt: Vier Jahre lang regierten Anarchisten die Hauptstadt Reykjavik. Und diese Amateure haben Erstaunliches vollbracht.

Short stories are the lifeblood of science fiction and fantasy — novels get all the buzz and the parties, but short fiction is where the wildest ideas and coolest characters come out. And here are 15 or so anthologies that will show you just how superb science fiction and fantasy storytelling can get.

Node.js is a rapidly growing technology that has been overtaking the world of server-side programming with surprising speed. MongoDB is a technology that’s revolutionizing database usage. Together, the two tools are a potent combination, thanks to the fact that they both employ JavaScript and JSON.

Last week's judgment by the European court of justice allowing anyone to demand that a search engine should remove unwanted information from its index – even if it is accurate, lawful, and publicly available elsewhere – is a dangerous step in the wrong direction.

RT @sfslim: Read “Agency”, a brilliant short story from @quinnnorton about technology working a little too well (7 min read)

At RedMonk, we have been arguing for many years that the developer has evolved from virtual serf to de facto kingmaker. Accepting that, at least for the sake of argument, it is worth asking whether one of the unintended consequences of this transition may be a return to Unix-style philosophies.

As our technological and sociological realities change, so too do our jobs. But just what, exactly, will we be doing 15 years from now? Here are some completely unexpected jobs you've almost certainly never heard of—but likely will soon.

That infinite space "between" what we humans feel as time is where computers spend all their time. It's an entirely different timescale. To computers, we humans work on a completely different time scale, practically geologic time. Which is completely mind-bending. The faster computers get, the bigger this time disparity grows.

Wer kennt es nicht, das Problem mit den Datenträgern? Über die Jahre sammeln sich alte Festplatten an, die man nicht einfach in den Müll werfen will, weil man nicht mehr so genau was drauf ist, ob die Verschlüsselung ordentlich genug war oder ob sie überhaupt noch anlaufen, um das zu prüfen. Auf der Suche nach einer Vernichtungsmethode, die nicht nur unzweifelhaft zuverlässig ist, sondern auch einen hohen Entertainment-Faktor aufweist, bin ich vor einer Weile bei Thermit gelandet. Das Pulver lässt sich problemlos und völlig legal im Baumarktbedarf ordern, es wird u.a. zum Schienenschweissen verwendet. Heute war es dann endlich soweit, auf einem geeigneten Freigelände (mit Betonplatten-Untergrund) fand sich eine kleine Hackergemeinde zum Entfachen eines Kompatktinfernos zusammen.

Current computing is based on binary logic -- zeroes and ones -- also called Boolean computing, but a new type of computing architecture stores information in the frequencies and phases of periodic signals and could work more like the human brain using a fraction of the energy necessary for today's computers, according to a team of engineers.

The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas – even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn Greenwald, in an extract from his new book about the Snowden affair, No Place to Hide

There no longer is a meaningful distinction between the digital world and the physical world. Your public transit rides, your love notes, your working notes and your letters home from your journeys are now part of the global mesh of electronic communications. The inability to live and love, to experiment and err, without oversight, is wrong because it's wrong, not because it doesn't catch bad guys.