One of the more intriguing mysteries is the real identity of the programmer or programmers behind the Jia Tan identity. I’m of the opinion that it’s more than one developer, we’ll get into ...

She is based in Los Angeles. Got a tip? Contact her at amrita.khalid@theverge.com. Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor? The long-term plan to gain access ...

On Saturday, the original maintainer of the XZ Utils project, Lasse Collins, disclosed that another maintainer of the project—known by the name “Jia Tan”—had inserted the malicious code.

A GitHub user identified as Jia Tan — who may not be a real or an individual person — spent roughly two years building their ...

In the decade that followed, the Vietnamese Communist government’s new-found espousal of the free market and capitalism had a profound influence on the country’s visual art production ...

For a decade, one writer tried to unravel the story of Dorje Chang, whose artwork sold for millions and who claimed to be the ...

The ban comes just months after the XY Utils incident, where an overworked project maintainer of the XY Utils open source library took on help from a developer using the name Jia Tan, who ...

"We never found Jia Tan, but we did find tons of long-tail issues in SSH." Not in the SSH protocol, mind you, but in a bunch of server-side deployments and implementations of it in wireless access ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

The xz-utils package failed its tests on Gentoo builds. One of the xz maintainers, [Jia Tan], weighed in on that Gentoo bug, suggesting that it was a GCC bug causing the Valgrind errors.

By Cori Murray “Sorry… Forget this is New York, not Beijing,” laughed Jia Zhang-Ke, a titan of Chinese cinema’s post-1990 “Sixth Generation” of directors, to a packed house inside ...