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- Moving Wikipedia from Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 29 comments
- If you're seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/ 31 comments
- Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia? http://www.geeknews.net/2008/06/21/who-needs-a-computer-science-degree-when-theres-wikipedia 39 comments
- Wikipedia edit from government computer added Muslim insult http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27203371 3 comments
- Intergalactic Computer Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network 4 comments
- Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:156.33.241.5 55 comments
- 2020s in computing (Wikipedia timeline) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_in_computing 9 comments computerscience
- Moving Wikipedia from computer to many, many bookshelves http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html 4 comments books
- CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/16/us-security-wikipedia-idusn1642896020070816 3 comments politics
- Wikipedia creator's computer and NFT of first edit up for auction https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-wikipedia-creator-nft-auction.html 3 comments cryptocurrency
- Wikipedia edit from government computer added Muslim insult http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27203371 3 comments worldnews
- Wanted: Better Wikipedia coverage of theoretical computer science http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=367 37 comments programming
- Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter http://www.physorg.com/news87276588.html 7 comments programming
- 2020s in computing (Wikipedia timeline) // Any missing major events from the world of FOSS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_2020%E2%80%93present 2 comments opensource
- Wikipedia (web version) images bricked my two computers (at home and at work) None 2 comments firefox
- Congressional computers continue to be used to vandalize Wikipedia - Wikinews https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/congressional_computers_continue_to_be_used_to_vandalize_wikipedia 12 comments politics
- Wikipedia defines Computer Science - with cool graphics for subdisciplines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/computer_science 70 comments programming
- One of Wikipedias open problems in theoretical computer science solved! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9619150 23 comments programming
- Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a UK Government computer http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hundreds-anonymous-wikipedia-edits-made-5006043 274 comments worldnews
- Government computers used to alter Wikipedia entries on high profile killings http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/11017597/government-computers-used-to-alter-wikipedia-entries-on-high-profile-killings.html 99 comments worldnews
- The Wikipedia article for ECC memory states that neutron flux is 3.5 times higher at the common cruising altitude for most aircraft than at sea level. Why do common personal computers not encounter errors on airlines? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/gd1a9z/the_wikipedia_article_for_ecc_memory_states_that/ 10 comments askscience
- Startup packs all 16GB of Wikipedia onto DNA strands to demonstrate new storage tech - Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, Catalog believes. https://www.cnet.com/news/startup-packs-all-16gb-wikipedia-onto-dna-strands-demonstrate-new-storage-tech/ 1029 comments technology
- Would you be interested in some video tutorials showing how to use Virtual Machines (and Linux in particular), how to connect to it from other computers remotely and how to install systems like Wikipedia and Git server/Gitlabs on it to make your workflow smoother? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/5jn67y/would_you_be_interested_in_some_video_tutorials/ 3 comments learnprogramming
- UK: "Dozens of MPs had negative aspects of their online biographies removed or altered prior to the election in a bid to make them more electable...these amendments to the MPs' Wikipedia articles were made on computers that had their IP addresses registered inside the Commons" http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/labour-tory-lib-dem-mps-had-details-expenses-deleted-wikipedia-pages-1502934 15 comments technology
- UK: "Dozens of MPs had negative aspects of their online biographies removed or altered prior to the election in a bid to make them more electable...these amendments to the MPs' Wikipedia articles were made on computers that had their IP addresses registered inside the Commons" http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/labour-tory-lib-dem-mps-had-details-expenses-deleted-wikipedia-pages-1502934 5 comments worldnews
- NYPD won’t punish cops for sanitizing Wikipedia police brutality entries: They might be reprimanded for using employer's computers for unrelated work. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-wont-punish-cops-for-sanitizing-wikipedia-police-brutality-entries/ 3 comments politics
- Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza. Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality... http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/03/8563947/edits-wikipedia-pages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza 6 comments politics
- Wikipedia: "In functional programming, a monad is a structure that represents computations defined as sequences of steps." Do people here feel this is an accurate summary of FP monads, given e.g. the Maybe and List monads? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monad_%28functional_programming%29 32 comments haskell
- US Congress computers banned from Wikipedia after anonymous user edits Donald Rumsfeld’s biography to describe him as an ‘alien lizard’ http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/us-congress-computers-banned-from-wikipedia-after-anonymous-user-edits-donald-rumsfelds-biography-to-describe-him-as-an-alien-lizard/story-fnjwmwrh-1227002234994 440 comments nottheonion
- If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwjqh4wv9so 131 comments math
- If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwjqh4wv9so 370 comments programming
- Scholarpedia: the peer reviewed wikipedia. Readable encyclopedia entries written by academics and curated by PhDs. Here's their computational neuroscience section. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/encyclopedia_of_computational_neuroscience 4 comments cogsci
- Historical figures ranked by Internet traffic: "We have developed computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources." http://www.whoisbigger.com/ 11 comments history
- The United States' alleged large-scale surveillance of global communications networks will badly harm the U.S. cloud computing industry, the founder of Wikipedia said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/net-us-wikipedia-spying-idusbre9a613a20131107 4 comments technology
- The United States' alleged large-scale surveillance of global communications networks will badly harm the U.S. cloud computing industry, the founder of Wikipedia said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/net-us-wikipedia-spying-idusbre9a613a20131107k 4 comments technology
- Tor is Peace, Software Freedom is Slavery, Wikipedia is Truth - Good lecture about computers and politics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGJjNXa7lJc 13 comments netsec
- The essay 'As We May Think' by Vannevar Bush predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including hypertext, personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/as_we_may_think 3 comments technology
- Defence Department computers in Ottawa have been used to vandalize information on a Wikipedia site critical of the Conservative government's decision to spend billions on a new stealth fighter. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/computers+used+alter+wikipedia/3335847/story.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Lego Digital Designer allows you to build custom Lego sets on your computer, and according to Wikipedia, order the pieces from their factory. http://ldd.lego.com/ 6 comments technology