Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...

IF YOU have ever pored over the Wikipedia entry “Conspiracy theory”, you may think you know what it is like to go through the looking glass. But have you read all there is to know about UFOs in ...

As the C language, which forms the basis of critical global software like operating systems, faces security limitations, ...

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever. The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe ...