Programmer Steve Losh has written a lengthy explanation of what separates good documentation from bad, and how to go about planning and writing documentation that will actually help people. His overarching point is that documentation should be used to teach, not to dump excessive amounts of unstructured information onto a user. Losh takes many of…

Mikrotik RouterOS versions 5.x and 6.x suffer from an sshd remote pre-authentication heap corruption vulnerability. Included is a 50 meg Mikrotik package that includes all research items…….

A new minifig blazes a new trail for females in Legoland by being the first woman figure with “scientist” as a career…….

sciencehabit writes “Ebola, HIV, influenza, MERS. Plenty of animal viruses cause devastating diseases in humans. But nature might have many more in store. In a new study, U.S. researchers estimate that there are more than 320,000 unknown viruses lurking in mammals alone (abstract). Identifying all the viruses in mammals would be a huge boon to…

Massive impact killed megafauna and pushed humans into agriculture……

The open group has reached a significant milestone in its certification program for enterprise architects…….

Ebook add-ons to arrive in time for new Kindle Paperwhite in October……

Nokia is Microsoft’s best chance at selling phones, but what it really needs is a more sophisticated OS…….

The professional social network is preparing to offload approximately $1 billion of its shares…….

The on-demand car service could be on track toward an IPO now that it has a CFO onboard…….