A former Goldman Sachs programmer was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for stealing code from the company's high-frequency trading platform. Sergey Aleynikov was a programmer at the large ...

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From the computer programming question-and-answer site Stack Overflow, we learn of the unfortunate story of a programmer who tattooed a "fork bomb," a type of self ...

The crime, it seems, was the uploading of public code to a public repository, Github. The code, which was publicly available here but now seems to be locked, is considered Flash Network’s proprietary ...

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix ...

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Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...

There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911 ...