I just want to share my thoughts on Kafka after using it for a few months, always from a practical point of view. I don’t know anything more than the basics ...

New 'nanocrystal metasurfaces' can convert infrared light into the visible spectrum

A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region is moving its videos to little-known service Odysee after some were taken down by the Google-owned…

A UNIX-style Operating System for the Waikato RISC Architecture Microprocessor (WRAMP) - halfer53/winix

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This paper is from Google and appeared at HotOS 2021 . There is also a very nice 10 minute video presentation for it. So Google found fail-s...

Flaws in card reader technology let a security firm consultant wreak havoc with point-of-sale systems and more.

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Detection Script to help identify why your PC is not Windows 11 Release Ready. Now Supporting Update Checks! - rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11

(With apologies to Derek Zoolander and Justin Steven.  And to whoever had to touch the HP-UX NTP setup at Queensland Police after I left. And to anyone who prefers the American spelling &#8220…

Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.

Some Austin cyclists are not happy about the robots using bike lanes, while others are optimistic that sharing their path will lead to good things down the road.

The CompCert formally-verified C compiler. Contribute to AbsInt/CompCert development by creating an account on GitHub.

From my last post on this site: One recurring theme: Bright kids of a certain age are just smart enough to jump to crazy conclusions rooted ...

Acousto-electric devices reveal new road to miniaturizing wireless tech

In partnership with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs gathered cases of China’s transnational repression of Uyghurs from public sources, including government documents, human rights reports, and reporting by credible…

Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...

I started a Twitter conversation last week about API endpoints that stream large amounts of data as an alternative to APIs that return 100 results at a time and require …