Software is full of circular dependencies if you look deep enough. Compilers
written in the language they compile are the most obvious example, but not the
only one. To compile a kernel, you need a running kernel. Linkers, build
systems, shells. Even text…

The cabinet must quickly ban bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. That writes director Pieter Hasekamp of the Central Planning Bureau (CPB) in an essay in the Financieele Dagblad. A cryptocurrency crash is inevitable, he says. That is why the Netherlands…

J. Kenji López-Alt rose to prominence from origins as a recipe developer and food scientist. But, as local restaurateurs attest, since he moved to Seattle last winter he’s also become Seattle’s most powerful food influencer. Just don’t call him that...

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased over tenfold over the past several decades and appears predominantly associated with paternal transmission. Although genetics is anticipated to be a component of ASD etiology, environmental epigenetics…

Software is full of circular dependencies if you look deep enough. Compilers
written in the language they compile are the most obvious example, but not the
only one. To compile a kernel, you need a running kernel. Linkers, build
systems, shells. Even text…

“I was completely inside (the whale); it was completely black,” said Michael Packard as people compare the New England man to Jonah and the whale.

In the late 1890s, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving tried to bridge the divide between silver and gold with a series of educational paper certificates

The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

Using police accident reports for Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and exploiting the introduction of the augmented reality game Pokémon GO as a natural experiment,

American and Chinese businesses have left their European counterparts in the dust

Although all Flipper Zero parts are produced in high-quality factories, it's
impossible to start the production of such a complex product instantly. All the
parts must go through several stages of improvements and fixes to become perfect
and finally go into…

The end of the British Empire in the mid-twentieth century was accompanied by a large-scale rearrangement of sensitive colonial records worldwide. A great number of these records were destroyed and...

We're excited to announce our new Replicated home office reimbursement program that we've recently launched for all employees.

Welcome to the May 2021 Multicore OCaml monthly report! This month’s update along with the previous updates have been compiled by @avsm, @ctk21, @kayceesrk and @shakthimaan. Firstly, all of our upstream activity on the OCaml compiler is now reported as part…

We don’t expect tents to serve the same purpose as brick-and-mortar houses—so why do we expect containers to function like VMs?