A six-month program involving thousands of workers across 70 companies in Britain will be the latest effort to assess the effects of a shorter workweek.

iOS 26 for iPhone with a new design, more helpful Apple Intelligence, polls and backgrounds in Messages, and features that make every day effortless.

Newsom wants to spend $100 million to make insulin affordable to millions with diabetes under a new generic drug label, CalRx. What will it cost?

An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization

CITIGROUP plans to hire more than 4,000 tech staff to help move its institutional clients online in the wake of the pandemic. Read more at The Business Times.

Twitch engineering developed a scalable, HA live streaming solution to enable broadcasters on their platform live stream their gameplay with minimum latency. They have hundreds of thousands of concurrent live broadcasters on their platform. The streams have…

A greedy game engine for greedy programmers! Contribute to jhigginbotham64/Starlight.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here's why such a machine could end up being massive waste of money.

The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit. Contribute to sensity-ai/dot development by creating an account on GitHub.

From this week we're switching to working Monday-Thursday for all team members at Beacon. Here I'll explain why we've decided to make this change, how it's going to work for us, and what it'll mean for our customers.

Sorry, this post will read like a “dear diary” entry rather than some life-changing HN-worthy guidance.
Back in November 2020, almost on a whim I started work on a new parser for the Ruby programming language. It was almost exactly a year after I had started…

Europe has reached a deal to make USB-C a common charger for all phones and electronic devices, with the aim to reduce e-waste and inconvenience.

Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A smouldering wreck. Yubikey? A charred chunk of gristle. This…

The concerned.tech letter is now up to 1400 signatories and the website has been deployed. Signatories now include folks such James Gosling, Mat Velosso, Martin Fowler, Simon Willison, David SH Rosenthal, Dave Andersen and 25 computer science professors.…