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DoorDash acquires Instacart in $17 billion delivery service merger

TECH · Engadget

The deal combines the two largest grocery delivery platforms in the US.

EasySMX S10 Lite review: A Switch 2 fidget toy with a weird removable faceplate

TECH · Engadget

EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation.

Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth

TECH · Ars Technica

Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.

Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

I step into the warm moist airamong the columns of the pines,their net of twigs and rootscomplex as any lines of code.The trees purify and anchor.Their branches balance my restlessness.Their calling…

What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies. Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds…

Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

TECH · Ars Technica

Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.

Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity.…

333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

TECH · Ars Technica

For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.