1. When Your Digital Life Vanishes (www.newyorker.com)

A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void.

3. Revocation of X.509 Certificates (blog.apnic.net)

'Revocation is broken' is a catchphrase in the world of certificates and Certificate Authorities. Certification infrastructure may not have been designed for the Internet of today.

7. The Secret Life of NaN (anniecherkaev.com)

The floating point standard defines a special value called Not-a-Number (NaN) which is used to represent, well, values that aren’t numbers. Double precision ...

22. The Last of the Lost Generation (porticoquarterly.com)

Malcolm Cowley was one of the most important literary critics and editors of the twentieth century. In a dozen books and over a thousand articles, he helped shape the canon…

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