It’s been a decade since I blogged about the benefits of avoiding news. In that time I mostly followed the advice I gave. I kicked my addiction to The Daily Show in late 2016 after it switche…

Scientific Reports - Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-brain interface

Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC

An FHE compiler for C++. Contribute to google/fully-homomorphic-encryption development by creating an account on GitHub.

The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.

Ran into a spectacularly awful Safari bug in the latest Safari (14.1.1 on macOS and iOS 14.6). Opening an IndexedDB database fails 100% of the time on the first try. 😩 If you refresh, it starts working. Bug report: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i… cc @webkit…

After a long and tough year, I've been looking forward to once again sharing my love of Python and open source software with other people, especially middle and high school

More than 250 alleged criminal figures were charged in Australia after an international sting by the AFP and FBI involving an encrypted app. But not one arrest was made on American soil.

Thanks to low-code tools and AI, 80% of tech will be built outside of IT teams, according to new predictions from Gartner.

How did CUE come about and what are its principles.

We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing for yourself a simple pleasure. A beautifully designed user experience has earned the…

Through all those years of journal entries, Lucy Maud Montgomery was always intelligent, often funny and never boring. I wanted to know what she’d say next...

The artwork of Tyler Hobbs, a practicing generative artist, creative coder, and painter, whose work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and has been...

There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but ...

Summary This post focuses on Bitdefender. But what I say here applies to other antivirus providers as well, in various ways. I am limiting the scope to Bitdefender merely to keep it relatively brie…

Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants could face more scrutiny and potential sanctions in the European Union after the bloc's top court backed national privacy watchdogs to pursue them, even when they are not the lead regulators.

Blocking out ads drastically improves the reading experience, but even more can be done. In this post we'll look at using a filter list to remove newsletter signup forms and another annoyances.

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