Nature Communications - Engineering quantum states requires precise manipulations at the atomic level. Here, the authors use deep reinforcement learning to manipulate Ag adatoms on Ag surfaces,...

Wytham Abbey: one of the most stunning stately homes in in Britain, situated just outside Oxford.
Past residents include Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Together with the gardens, estate was on sale for £15m last year.
Three guesses…

Lets say you want to have a mutex for every item in a list with 10k elements. It feels a bit wasteful to use a std::mutex for each of those elements. In Linux std::mutex is 40 bytes, in Windows it&…

A shape-shifting event is currently occurring in the cultural film landscape and it’s not a positive one.

CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders. AlmaLinux has recently been gaining traction among the…

In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.

Intel recently announced a big driver update for their Arc GPUs on Windows, because their DirectX 9 performance wasn't as good as it could have been. Turns out, they're using code from the open source DXVK which is part of Steam Play Proton.

Why you (probably) don't need live chat on your website.

I know it is a common stereotype for an old guy to complain about how good the kids have it today. I, however, will take a little different approach: We have it so much better today when it comes t…

A report on the rare minerals revealed under the melting ice in Greenland. Forms for applying for an “investor visa” in Italy. Video of His Excellency Dr. Matar Hamed Al Neyadi, UAE ambassador to Kuwait, inaugurating a corner for Al Fou‘ah Dates Company.…

A comprehensive guide to MikroTik internals, including IPC, hand-rolled cryptography, and a novel post-authentication jailbreak

1.0.0-beta.13.2 (2022-12-07)

Bug Fixes

exceptions for handlers already defined (7811511)

Full Changelog
v1.0.0-beta.13.1...v1.0.0-beta.13.2

PHP 8.2 is a major update of the PHP language. Readonly classes, null, false, and true as stand-alone types, deprecated dynamic properties, performance improvements and more

The federal government will invest in alternative methods to build cell-network equipment.

Germophobes, brace yourselves. A team of CU Boulder engineers has revealed how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air when a public restroom toilet is

I’m in the middle of updating this denoscription of how a Boris workshop runs, having just done a few of them back to back at the beginning of 2025.

The age of “boring AI” will be anything but

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…