Airline executives and labor leaders point to inadequate technology systems as one reason why a brutal winter storm turned into a debacle. One main culprit: SkySolver, a crew scheduling tool, which was overwhelmed by the task.

This is a 16mm film noscriptd "Critical Program Reading"
I applied some color correction as this is very faded. Mostly this worked well but there are some magenta backgrounds that are... intense!

Little information is known about this film. Credits are very…

Pwning the source prompts of Notion AI, 7 techniques for Reverse Prompt Engineering... and why everyone is *wrong* about prompt injection

I was recently rewarded a total of $107,500 by Google for responsibly disclosing security issues in the Google Home smart speaker that allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a "backdoor" account on the device, enabling them to send commands…

The never-ending FTX saga sees a new twist every day, and the latest transfer of funds to scoop out whatever is left in those crypto wallets is worrying for the community.

Waze beta paints dangerous and unfamiliar roads red.

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal the year’s most riveting findings about our close relatives and ancestors

Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new here, make sure to check out our announcement…

Unless you’re an anthropologist, it’s likely that everything you know about American prehistory is wrong. Science journalist Mann’s survey of the current knowledge is a bracing corrective.

Studies will soon show whether electroceuticals outperform pharmaceuticals

Note: I link to a bunch of paywalled studies in this essay. Please do not use sci-hub to access them for free and do not use this trick (a) to easily redirect papers to sci-hub.

For the clearest example of deliberate data manipulation, see how Walker edits…

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

The blockchain heavily tied to the disgraced founder of FTX has been badly wounded by his unmasking. Here are the headwinds facing the formerly hot project and its SOL token.

A denoscription of my password management solution based on passage, a fork of pass that uses age, and YubiKeys. Its main feature is resisting post-compromise exfiltration.

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other…

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A Japanese research group has become the first to reveal that the checkerboard-like arrangement of cells in the inner ear's organ of Corti is vital for hearing. The discovery gives new insight into how ...

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