Nathan Story, a self-employed software engineer, built StateReference Ethics, a searchable database of Massachusetts ethics disclosures detailing officials' investments and conflicts of interest. Story previously created Woke Windows (2020-2021), a Boston police database aggregating internal affairs records, payroll data, and other public information to expose problematic officers and their salaries.
Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led the development of software for NASA's Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, has died at age 90. Her work on priority-driven software prevented a critical computer error during the 1969 landing and helped establish the field of software engineering. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 for her contributions to space exploration.