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As it turns out, money can buy happiness, just not in the ways you might think. This is “More of What You Love,” a collaboration between OZY and Ally Financial to highlight the people who are not only doing good business, but doing what they love and finding innovative ways to fund their passion projects. […]
Former CIA and NSA agent Joshua Adam Schulte has been charged with stealing data from the CIA and handing it over to an unnamed organization specializing in public disclosures of such sensitive info. The indictment, filed by the US Attorney’s Office on Monday, says that Schulte had been charged with 13 counts of illegal gathering […]
Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov, accused by US prosecutors of being the mastermind behind a large bot net has been extradited to the US from Spain and will appear in court Friday. In a statement Friday, the US Justice Department said Levashov is “alleged to have controlled and operated the Kelihos botnet which was used to […]
Prices for bitcoin and other digital currencies on Jan. 8 lost more than $ 100 billion in collective market value. The move can be traced to one address: A Long Island City apartment that is the home of Brandon Chez, a 31-year-old computer programmer behind website coinmarketcap.com.
Wikimedia Commons A programmer built a chatbot to act as an AI lawyer to fight parking tickets. The company is planning to launch the platform to let you sue anyone. As a young programmer, Joshua Browder built a chatbot to act as a kind of AI lawyer that would help people dispute parking tickets. Not only […]
Mark Lennihan/AP A Florida software engineer was sentenced to 16 months in prison on Friday. He was found guilty of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange avoid having banks and regulators look into its activities. Yuri Lebedev was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan to 16 months in prison on Friday, according […]
Coraline Ada Ehmke A month ago, well-known programmer Coraline Ada Ehmke was fired from her job at GitHub. When it happened, she knew she was going to want to publicly speak out about her frustrating time at the company, so she did something that people rarely do: she turned down the company’s severance package. To […]
Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this “game” now exists, and it’s thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia’s API. The Javascript project works on any desktop or mobile web browser, and it starts out looking like an ’80s Infocom video game box. (Always […]
Getty / Frederick M Brown YouTube has to start acting less like a tech platform and more like a TV network. The company has long served as the repository for every possible video on the planet, professional or otherwise. But given that the Alphabet-owned video site is making another push into original programming, it is […]
This was apparently the entirety of the development hardware Masahiro Sakurai used to start programming Kirby’s Dream Land. (credit: Source Gaming / Famitsu) Any programmer of a certain age likely has a horror story about some rinky-dink coding and workflow environment that forced them to hack together a working app under extreme hardware and software […]
