Apple has blocked a long-time developer from his Apple ID after he failed to redeem what support suggested was a dodgy $500 ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

SSH was a welcome replacement for Telnet when it emerged in the mid-1990s, since it encrypted the connection to conceal it ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

The recent fund-raising by the FSF will help sort out "the books" and pay salaries. Earlier this week the FSF issued a statement and said it had added another new member to the Board. This means that ...

Trapped in a hell he helped make, a lone hacker aboard a space station far from home sneaks and fights his way through horrible mutants and killer robots in order to take down the monstrous artificial ...

On the Fediverse, when someone starts to follow me, I look into their account and what they have posted. If there is no history, I ignore them, otherwise I try to get an impression of the kind of ...

“Grand Rapids,” by Natasha Stagg, is an unassuming portrait of a Midwestern teenager’s grief and transformation. By Meghan O’Gieblyn Need something to read (or watch) this New Year’s week? This quiz ...

Welcome to Electronic Design's coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. This year's show looks to be heavy on artificial intelligence (AI) again, but there's a lot more. Our editors will add to ...

Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways. By Sadie Stein Fiction by George Saunders, ...