George Leslie orchestrated an estimated 80% of all bank robberies in the US in the late 1800s, all while living a strange double life.

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For reasons rooted in the values of contemporary culture, the concept of shame had until recently all but vanished from discussions of emotional disarray. Now it is regarded by many psychologists as the preeminent cause of emotional distress in our time

Given the ongoing decay of our institutions and their utter failure to address the climate crisis it is not far fetched to ask whether we are headed for some kind of societal collapse. A highly...

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. - Self Hosted Compiler Upgrade Guide · ziglang/zig Wiki

This is a tracking issue for when we can completely replace stage1 with self-hosted in official builds of Zig. add debug info to the LLVM backend initial implementation #11085 #11095 #11096 #11097 ...

The solution to improving online privacy was not to create a 2nd internet.

A study of the effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human metabolism as well as
their microbiomes reveals how these can induce individual-specific, microbiome-dependent
changes to glycemic responses, warranting follow-up clinical studies to understand
long…

The story behind the brick with a real computer inside.

CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. B…

Art, psychology, and computer graphics of nonlinear perspective projection

OpenGEM is a non-multitasking 16-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS. It is an extended distribution of FreeGEM that includes features of the original Digital Research GEM. OpenGEM is intended to provide a simple to install and use GUI system and windowing…

Sometimes risk mitigation works. It doesn’t feel that way because when risk mitigation works, nothing happens. But not all risks lead to catastrophe, as long as people tasked with mitigating those risks keep their eyes on the goal. For example, it’s possible…

Today we're announcing Vault, a Postgres extension for managing secrets and encryption inside your database.

One of the challenges of realizing smart dust concepts, as well as nano- and microrobotics in general, is a lack of equally small on-chip power sources for ubiquitous anytime anywhere operation. Now, researchers have created an on-chip micro-Swiss-roll battery…

Retro shaders on top of any Windows app. Available for Windows