John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is taking aim now at solving AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.

This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.

Astrée is a static program analyzer that proves the absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior in safety-critical applications written or generated in C or C++

The name "critical zone" may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it's the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth's land surface responsible for sustaining life. A relatively small portion ...

Today I added support for sendmsg() and recvmsg() to my Blink virtual machine. Suddenly it's now able to run GUI programs. This might make it possible for us to run Linux desktop executables on other OSes and the web using WASM. https://t.co/ram0UF2Csf

Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near it lid, show close ups of the double-seam that hold…

Kids' channels are highest earners on YouTube, even as parents continue to debate the limits of screen time for children

Rémy Rakic is helping us enable the adoption of memory safe software through work to improve Rust compile times. We asked him to provide his perspective on the work in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Rémy!
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Raters from across the country flew into the Bay Area to deliver a petition on Feb. 1 demanding that Google offer its search engine raters the same minimum wage and benefits that it promises its extended workforce.

How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation

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Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command. - initialcommit-com/git-sim

The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year. Amazon also contends with the need to recalibrate after a pandemic-era upsurge.

The US job market is expected to have remained strong in January, adding 185,000 jobs. That's about on par with America's average monthly job growth over the past decade, but it would represent a slowdown from the strong post-pandemic gains of the past couple…

Over the past month, Google has been outgunned by malvertisers with new tricks.

Karina Montoya explores DOJ's complaint that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of digital advertising technologies.

Exploring the quirks of the Page Visibility API across platforms and browsers.