The "leap second" crash -- which hit several web operations on Saturday evening -- can be traced to a single glitch in the Linux operating system. Here's the inside story on what happened. When Saturday night's leap second glitch hit Reddit, Jason Harvey didn't realize it was the leap second glitch. He thought it was some sort of internet slowdown related to the massive Amazon cloud outage that br
The controversial pioneer of free software resigned from MIT over his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein and Marvin Minsky. Stallman won’t be the last. A few days ago I got a tweet directed to me: If I find another copy of the Blue Cover version of Hackers could I get you to autograph it again? The one I currently have was signed by you and Richard Stallman at LinuxWorld in 1999, and I'm afraid I'm going
The Elbo chair is the culmination of a collaboration between human and machine. The Elbo chair is unusual piece of furniture. Not for its looks---though the legs, back, and arms bear an uncanny resemblance to bones---but for how it came to be. Arthur Harsuvanakit and Brittany Presten of Autodesk’s generative design lab created the chair, but they didn’t design it. Yes, they wanted the Elbo to refe
After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics. The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet we've built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a re
High-end, custom-built "field programmable gate arrays" will run Bing, Office 365, and Azure. It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future. Ballmer, the big, bald, boisterous CEO of Microsoft, sat in the lecture room on the ground floor of Building 99, home base for the company’s blue-sky R&D lab just outside Seattle. The tables curved
Instead of just supporting her husband’s career, Margaret Hamilton invented the modern concept of software. Margaret Hamilton wasn’t supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon. It was 1960, not a time when women were encouraged to seek out high-powered technical work. Hamilton, a 24-year-old with an undergrad degree in mathematics, had gotten a job as a programmer a
Is Bitcoin's Creator this Unknown Australian Genius? Probably Not (Updated) Documents leaked to WIRED suggested that Bitcoin’s creator was Craig Wright, but they may be a hoax. Editor's note, 4/30/2019: In the days following publication of this story, WIRED published an update that identified inconsistencies in the evidence supporting the notion that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright later
Facebook is apparently testing a product called Facebook at Work, designed to let people, well, use Facebook at work. According to anonymous sources speaking with The Financial Times, the new service would be completely separate from Facebook's consumer product. The FT says the service would allow users to message their colleagues, connect with other people in their professional network, and colla
ANALYSIS: Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with its own version of it Twitter beta-tested a spine. On Friday, it emerged that the U.S. government recently got a court order demanding that Twitter turn over information about a number of people connected to WikiLeaks, including founder Julian Assa
The Domain Name System depends on hierarchical organization and authority. It was first successfully tested 25 years ago today. 1983: Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the automated, distributed Domain Name System. DNS will lay the foundation for the massive expansion, popularization and commercialization of the internet. The fledgling internet […] The Domain Name Sy
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