If, like me, you have friends who’ve lived the ‘digital nomad’ life you probably understand that tinge of jealousy you get when you see Instagram stories about their weekend bike trip to a secluded beach or their Friday work drinks aboard a boat cruising through historic canals. After this long period of lockdowns and quarantine, the itch to travel and experience new things has gotten even stronger. Luckily, if you work in tech, the overwhelmingly high demand for talent means you don’t have to be an armchair traveler for much longer....

Huge valuations, impossible salaries, perks that are befitting royalty? Must be a bubble, right? Not so fast. While there’s a lot of talk about how things are getting out of hand, it seems that nobody is looking at the history of things. In order to be classified as a bubble, it seems to me that we’d need to have a gauge. Thus far, the only marker that anybody seems to be using is their own intuition....

18-year-old Luca Todesco has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in OS X that could be exploited to remotely gain access to a computer,reports PC World. Todesco’s exploit uses two bugs to corrupt memory found in the OS X kernel. This condition can be used to circumvent built-in safeguards against intrusions and grant the attacker access to a root shell. His exploit code works on OS X version 10.9.5 through 10.10.5. However, Apple has already fixed the issue inEl Capitan10....

Have you ever been in a situation where your car suddenly stops for no obvious reason? Ok, no worries, you are thinking, you can just push your car to the side of the road. But in the case of a Tesla or other electric vehicle, this is not always possible. Well, this happened to Alan Puccinelli, who shared his experience on Twitter. I recommend readingthe whole threadpublished a few hours after the event....

A totally necessary ‘analysis’ of Microsoft’s Xbox Live rebranding A scientific, mathematical, and literary dissection of the move to Xbox network Rebranding Xbox Live: the capital letter issue You notice this? It was Xbox Live and now it’s… Xbox network. Live to network. Look again: Wheredidthe capital letter go? Who took it? Does it count as kidnapping? Should I engage the authorities? Do I need to blink in morse code?...