Research on ransomware, its scale, who it affects, and how much money it makes: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/16/ransomware/
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Shower thought: presumably keyword length affects naming habits? Are programmers more willing to write verboseFunctionName if the keyword is `fn` rather than `function`?
Air to ground and satellite connections for in-flight WiFi: https://onezero.medium.com/what-makes-it-possible-to-browse-the-internet-at-35-000-feet-1afaea83eb5
(It's expensive, affects the plane's shape and fuel efficiency, and the fastest is still only 100 Mbps!)
Cute article on how backspace (referred to as "rubout") interacts with parsing in a lisp interpreter, and how that affects the behaviour of literals: