Passage in Bamboo Annals describes a "five-colored light" in 10th century BCE.

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.

Expected behavior Docker's EULA and privacy policy make no mention of 3rd party tracking in their client side software. The expected behavior is no 3rd party tracking services embedded in D...

Computers, Machine Learning and non-machine learning

I’m a sucker for all things 8-bit. I had multiple Spectrum and C64 machines in my youth (still own a few today) and at that age, I was somewhat proficient at BASIC, Z80 and 6510 assembly code.

It is known that the x86 MOV instruction is Turing-complete (PDF) all by itself, and is even a compiler target . More usefully, x86 can...

Around 300 employees at the software company’s videogame unit ZeniMax have voted to organize with the Communications Workers of America.

US owners who had to get replacements are eligible.

Change in Name Popularity

If you deal with Web Performance, you've probably heard about HTTP resource prioritization. This is especially true since last year, as Chromium added so-called "Priority Hints" with the new fetchpriority attribute, which allow you to tweak said prioritizations.…

The company will also exit some real estate and cut back on office space, it disclosed

In a two-part documentary, FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films explore how the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group, was used on journalists,

A collaboratively curated list of awesome Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Resources - ARPSyndicate/awesome-intelligence

Censorship kept me from finishing a college essay behind bars. Now, prisons might keep readers from my memoir.

Funding

In total urllib3 received $26,615 USD in financial support
and distributed $18,622 USD to maintainers and community contributors.
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On fun, danger, and 70s airplane toys

After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.

I learned a thing long time ago, and it was: Once you print something, you can’t get it back. On the surface, this statement doesn’t make any sense. Scanners...