Assassin's Creed 2, Far Cry 3, and the most recent Prince of Persia game are all having their online features decommissioned.

So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…

How to integrate a trackpoint in a mechanical keyboard - alonswartz/trackpoint

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On August 6th, 1961, a former US spy plane, which had been turned into a passenger plane crashed in Budapest, killing 30 people. But how did it end up in Hungary, and why did it crash?

The state-of-the-art image restoration model without nonlinear activation functions. - megvii-research/NAFNet

I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control. Now, here, in 2022, desktop computers no longer exist and all computing is done via handheld mobile telephone. Time to update this dinosaur.
These thousands of words and…

What's it like to be responsible for a billion people's digital security? Just ask the company's Morse researchers.

The evolutionary marvel mates in love trains, can swim in the ocean, and even uses jazz hands as a defensive tactic.

Protein structure prediction is a hard problem, but even harder ones remain

Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS - matanolabs/matano

The Central Pangean Mountains were a great mountain chain in the middle part of the supercontinent Pangaea that stretches across the continent from northeast to southwest during the Carboniferous, Permian Triassic periods.

Best thing we can do to JavaScript is retire it: JSON creator Douglas Crockford

Update: a version of this post appeared on Slate.com. I seem to have touched a nerve with my rant about the conventional teaching of music theory and how poorly it serves practicing musicians. I th…

Portable electronics lab, mobile hack rig, etc. The problem My oldest kid got a very noisy police toy and rather than just removing the batteries I d…