<p><em>The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to…

This week is a twofer! We have the long-awaited Wayland fractional scaling support, and the equally long-awaited ultimate fix for Plasma’s multi-screen woes! Let’s take them one at a ti…

Spear-tip techniques may have made their way from Japan more than 16,000 years ago

CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY TO MASSACHUSETTS!

@MIT’s faculty votes to adopt the “MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”!

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing…

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Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅

It's time for this myth to die.

Populous for Windows CE/Dreamcast. Special thanks to Comby Laurent and LemonHaze - LemonHaze420/DCPopulous

First Commodore 64 Christmas Demo, 1982
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Christmas screens for the Commodore 64, done completely with character graphics and sprites. Christmas trees in snow by Trip Denton of Philadelphia. All other screens by H. Rex Boucher, also of Philadelphia. Pop…

While working on this blog post I had a privilege of interacting with all neural search frameworks key developers / leadership: Malte Piestch (Haystack), Amin Ahmad (Vectara), Florian Hönicke (Jina…

With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US — intravenous injections of viruses called phages — and convinced the medical system to save his life.

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by Bill Atkinson, as told to Leo Laporte In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD, and I spent most of the night sitting on a concrete park bench outside my home in Los Gatos, California.   I gazed up at a hundred billion…

When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.