A programming error accidentally — and permanently — shut down the entire Solana blockchain-based platform OptiFi, wiping out $661,000 worth of USDC.

And why big tech wants them

Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.

Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most…

This is a lightly edited trannoscript of my keynote over at NANOG 83, so please accept my apologies if some of the wording is not (yet) as clear as it should be! The original video, including Q&A can be found on NANOG’s Youtube channel
Hello, and welcome to…

1999 open Emacs bugs, that is: Made it past that magical 2K roadblock, so according to my education in financial analytics, there are no technical barriers until we reach 500.

Posted by Richard C. Gerkin, Google Research, and Alexander B. Wiltschko, Google Did you ever try to measure a smell? …Until you can measure their ...

At IKEA we are building a knowledge graph to improve the overall experience of our customers in the physical and digital space. I like to…

“Loab” is creepypasta for the AI generation, and nobody understands where she came from.

PM Kishida says the organization has not influenced policymaking

👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today.

I want to start you off with a story about good intentions with bad outcomes.

Hopefully, everybody has seen the Disney Pixar movie Monster’s Inc. by now. In the movie, the monster…

At the 2022 Code Conference, Tim Cook responded to a journalist asking about RCS text messaging by suggesting they buy an iPhone.

Germany has been offering ultracheap monthly 9-euro tickets for all local public transportation in an effort to ease the burden of inflation and high energy costs.

This release makes Fresh even more powerful with automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools integration and more.

Whenever a 2nd edition of a book is published, people ask “I already have the 1st edition. Do I need to get the 2nd?” It’s a legitimate question and I’ve asked it myself. Reading a 2nd edition after the 1st is not trivial: It’s a commitment of both additional…

Supercomputing and accelerator centers struggle with surging gas and electricity prices

Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis.

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now researchers from the University of Gothenburg and elsewhere are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional…

Go from blinking cursor to deployed serverless app in 66 seconds. Experience the next wave of cloud computing with Fermyon.