I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...

As a rule, it’s a good idea to be particularly suspicious of defenses of censorship that — coincidentally — materially benefit the people espousing them. In this case, the argument in favor of cens…

While AM radio will still be available in commercial vehicles, Ford will not offer it in new gas-powered and EV vehicles beginning in 2024.

a tiny web experiment

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Here's the original simulation by bergmanjoe: https://www.tiktok.com/@bergmanjoe/video/7109098512058436907…

Directed by Dominique Filhol

Based on the story by Arthur C. Clarke

With Paul Bandey, Lennard Ridsdale, Rotem Jackman, Yves Yan and Lama Gyurme.

Awards
- BEST ADAPTATION OF A BOOK at the 25th Sedona International Film Festival, Sedona, USA, 2019
- …

For Scientific American, Jen Christiansen tracks down where the iconic image on the cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures came from. Designer Peter Saville found the image, a stacked graph of successive radio signals from pulsar CP 1919, in a

The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message.

Following a lively debate amongst CS engineers, Ian Miell offers tips on how to respond to your advantage when someone claims your favoured tool is not declarative and therefore verboten.

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.

The roller-coaster that is generative AI keeps chugging on, and for those of us sitting in the audience, it is more than entertaining.

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book by Isaac Asimov

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is clearing the way for California rules that will phase out the sale of diesel-powered trucks. The rules require companies to sell more electric trucks of varying sizes all the way up to massive vehicles weighing…

Safari 16.4 rolled out last week, and for us it's been a nightmare. We make the browser-based game creation app Construct. Early versions of Safari 16.4 broke opening projects, previewing projects, and all existing content published with Construct, all in…

Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Press release 10/2023 3 April 2023 Finland will become a Member of NATO on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. President of the...

Citing energy needs, Tokyo won legal exception to rules binding Group of Seven nations.