Time for another potentially-controversial subject: recursive locks, also known as re-entrant locks or recursive mutexes.

Personhood appears to be simpler than we thought

His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in 2011 discovered the paper had been based on fabricated research — and…

Review of Accounting Studies - We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the “iceberg,” we exploit Arthur...

“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.

Nature - Superior accomplishments and considerations of gender equity in academy membership might be contributing to the difference.

Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed. - robinmoisson/staticrypt

In this post I take a look at a brand new device that enables your trusty old 8-bit C64 computer to play MP3's!

Headphone jack, SIM tray, and now buttons?

A pay benchmark for data analysts, data scientists, analytics engineers and data engineers across hundreds of companies

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the trannoscript.

Google Chrome's new platform for extensions, Manifest V3, threatens to limit the functionality of ad blockers. Firefox has found a way around this problem. Read how.

A new report from The Register today claims that Google is “paying Apple a portion of search revenue” that comes...

Hello! We've just shipped a Beta update to Steam and Steam Deck that includes a new feature: Local Network Game Transfers.

This allows Steam users to install games directly from one PC to another over a local network, without having to download and install…

Quietly and systematically, the author’s entire catalogue has been reworked in a bid for ‘relevancy’

Unlogged tables in Postgres can give you a big performance improvement but beware of the drawbacks. Here are some tips on how to safely give it a try.

Microsoft said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence to 5 questions per session and 50 questions per day.

3D printed mouse replacement with Raspberry Pi Pico and PMW3360