Stories of idiosyncratic and demanding composers and bandleaders abound in mid-century jazz—of pioneers who pushed their musicians to new heights and in entirely new directions through seeming sheer force of will. Miles Davis’ name inevitably comes up in…

MIT researchers have made solar panels thinner than human hair that provide 18 times more power per kilogram than today’s glass and silicon-based solar panels. These solar cells are in fact one-hundredth the weight of conventional PV.

A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores and calendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have open alternativ...

It turns out the hand-written Assembly code providing an optimized string comparison 'strcmp' function for the Motorola 68000 (m68k) processor architecture has 'always been broken' and only now uncovered at the end of 2022.

While the embers of staging environments are still smoldering, like a phoenix, preview environments have risen from their ashes.

Some see tentative agreement as historic win, others as a failure

France’s data privacy regulator has fined tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros – the watchdog's largest fine of 2022 – for making it easier for users of its search engine to accept advertising cookies…

thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.

My personal website.

The feds say cybercriminals are buying online ads to impersonate brands with the aim of stealing or extorting money from victims.

This story begins, as they so often do, when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM an…

In the last days I tried to integrate multiple OpenID Connect Providers into my Applications (currently mostly Alphalerts and some dev projects)
So far, I only got Google to work, and even this is currently limited to 100 Users. In this blog post, I want…