Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores everything as plain text markdown on your own machine. Think of it as a folder of Word documents that can link to each other. I run two vaults in Obsidian. A ...

Adobe Acrobat has largely catered to professionals with its recent AI features. Now, the company is turning its attention to students by making Acrobat more useful with the launch of a new AI tool ...

DCTRL, a Bitcoin hub and hacker space out of Vancouver, the fair-weather Canadian city, has announced the sunset of its downtown basement location, iconic among early adopters for its tinkerer mindset ...

After over a decade as a volunteer-run hackerspace sustaining Bitcoin innovation through events, the Bepsi machine, and community donations, DCTRL announces its physical closure as they prepare a new ...

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the ...

It’s not a news site. But there’s a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what’s happening in the world. But the most common Wikipedia genre represented each week is news.

One of the first modern coworking spaces, C-Base in Berlin, was launched 30 years ago by a group of computer engineers as a “hacker space” in which to share their tech and techniques. Similarly, many ...

Noisebridge, a "hackerspace" for crafters and coders alike, is struggling to keep their doors open. Anyone who walks through the gates of Noisebridge, a nondescript Mission District warehouse ...

Noisebridge, the Mission District hackerspace that has long run on a do-ocracy model, is scrambling to raise emergency funds to stay open. Volunteers say the collective has only a few months of runway ...

Knowledge has never been neutral. Whoever controls the archives controls perception, and whoever controls perception controls power. For decades, Wikipedia has held the throne; and empire of citations ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...