Biniamar is a small village of three hundred people at the eastern foot of the Sierra Tramuntana in Mallorca. Its name, like that of many...

A cornerstone of life online has been that platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. What happens if that immunity goes away?

The fintech startup hired Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to advise it on a direct listing or a private-market transaction involving employees’ shares.

Digitec Galaxus is blazing a trail. The Swiss online retailer now displays how often customers return products, how often products break during the warranty period and how long it takes for a warranty claim to be settled. With that, Galaxus and Digitec now…

The search giant's new antitrust case couldn't come at a worse time. The looming threat of AI leaves Google desperate to fend off competitors. That's exactly what you can't do under an antitrust case.

Many plowed that time savings into...more work

Airbyte launched the Free Connector Program, making all alpha and beta connectors on Airbyte Cloud free of charge. This article explains why Airbyte did that.

The public perceives OpenAI's ChatGPT as revolutionary, but the same techniques are being used and the same kind of work is going on at many research labs, says the deep learning pioneer.

Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention, but that’s what’s reportedly happening at Stanford University after a photo of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf” circulated on campus last…

In Rust in 2023, @nrc floated an idea of a Rust compiler rewrite.
As my hobby is writing Rust compiler frontends (1, 2), I have some (but not very many) thoughts here!
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The Arizona Legislature will exempt itself from state public records law and destroy all email correspondence sent or received by lawmakers or staff after 90 days under new rules adopted Wednesday by majority Republicans over vigorous opposition from minority…

The 8086 processor was introduced in 1978 and has greatly influenced modern computing through the x86 architecture. One unusual instructio...

We flew to the UK to learn more about the designer 3D-printing third thumbs. Is this the dawn of human body augmentation?

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Minimal, simple, efficient, statically typed, compiled, meta programmable, safe and extensible systems programming language with a Lua flavor.

Introduction Projects are fraught with uncertainty, so it is no surprise that the language and tools of probability are making their way into project management practice. A good example of this is …