Apps on Fly.io all get their own routable IPv4 addresses. Here's what that costs us.

The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.

Find out what the team building government’s new single sign-on solution learnt about prototyping, inclusion, apps and more during its digital identity alpha.

We are all familiar with vending machines dispensing sugary drinks and confections at various locations around our fine city, but did you know that some of the earliest vending machines were built into the bases of gas lamps?

A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has overcome a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave background.

Regular blogging by Terence Eden.

One of the tasks given me by the Python Software Foundation as part of the Developer in Residence job was to look at the state of CPython as an active software development project. What are people working on? Which standard libraries require most work? Who…

Thirteen-year-olds saw unprecedented declines in both reading and math between 2012 and 2020, according to scores released this morning from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Consistent with several years of previous data, the results…

“Optical accelerator” devices could one day soon turbocharge tailored applications

Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc's chief executive Sunday, and accused the company's top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, of either misleading Congress or possibly lying to it about Amazon's business practices.

Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.

A college professor is expected to do all kinds of things apart from research and teaching. Those duties include cooperating with the admissions office to bring in students and working with the a...

The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.

An analysis of current and potential kernel security mitigations Posted by Jann Horn, Project ...

The original KiCad domain name (kicad - pcb.org) was recently sold to an unnamed third party that is not affiliated with the KiCad Project or members of the KiCad Development Team. This sale was unexpected and may pose a risk to KiCad users. The new owners…

This blog post describes the optimizations enabled by -ffast-math when
compiling C or C++ code with GCC 11 for x86_64 Linux (other languages/operating
systems/CPU architectures may enable slightly different optimizations).