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...

"Infinity is mind numbingly weird. How is it even legal to use it in calculus?"

"After sitting through two years of AP Calculus, I still feel like I don’t know anything about it."

"What do you mean that historically, integrals came before derivatives? Seriously…

Nature - A class of drugs that quash hunger have shown striking results in trials and in practice. But can they help all people with obesity — and conquer weight stigma?

In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the i…

Researchers who discovered the backdoor Linux malware say it may have been around for more than three years — and it targets 30+ plug-in bugs.

Inside the mind of Juan Tamariz, the godfather of close-up card magic.