DuckDuckGo apps and extensions are now blocking Google Sign-in pop-ups on all its apps and browser extensions, removing what it perceives as an annoyance and a privacy risk for its users.

In the snow and cold, I wear three pairs of socks, and I get sick easily. But the delivery apps don’t seem to care about our safety

From business to politics to science, the few get more. What do we do about it?

The group trying to monetize AI porn generation, Unstable Diffusion, raised more than $56,000 on Kickstarter from 867 backers. Now, as Kickstarter changes its thinking about what kind of AI-based projects it will allow, the crowdfunding platform has shut…

Every December, I try to make a little wintery demo to exercise one of 8bitworkshop’s platforms. This year, I chose the Atari 800 to test out the new native TypeScript emulator in 8bitworkshop. You...

Beijing condemns new U.S. law that steps up military aid to Taipei

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An introduction to ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon Macs - below/HelloSilicon

Donald Knuth’s Annual Christmas Tree Lectures are back! 🌲✨

This year Dr. Knuth will present on Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans. Three fascinating concepts, which seem at first to be entirely unrelated to each other, are in fact in one-to…

@mtaibbi: 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bu...…

After decades of promises, AI has finally leveled up. What does that mean for us?

A disturbing trend in consumer electronics has been a steady disappearance of replaceable batteries on our devices. Finding a mobile phone with a swapable battery is a struggle, and many other devi…

It finally happened!

Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →