What is a day, a month, a year? Science, religion and art coalesce in an invaluable 15th-century book of hours.

Graphing TLA+ state spaces for fun and profit.

Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband

The AI-powered DuckAssist is coming to DuckDuckGo.

Apple Inc. introduced a long-promised high-yield savings account with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., looking to attract US financial clients with an attractive rate and the ease of its Wallet app.

is there a canonical source for "the argument for AGI ruin" somewhere, preferably laid out as an explicit argument with premises and a conclusion?

On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.

Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.

The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become villains, but either way they are absolutely the protagonists.…

Note: Proton 8.0 requires a GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3.

Now playable:

Forspoken
Samurai Maiden
Dead Space (2023)
Creativerse
Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
Atelier M...

The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that Volkswagen, BMW, Nissan, Rivian, Hyundai and Volvo Cars electric vehicles will lose access to a $7,500 tax credit under new rules for battery sourcing. The Treasury said the new requirements effective on Tuesday will…

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This article was written in March 2023. At the time of writing, the encoders we used were still in active development. As codec standards and encoders evolve, some of the information may become out…

Two people have been arrested by the FBI on allegations they helped operate an illegal police station for the government of China in lower Manhattan. The two are charged with conspiring to act as agents for the Chinese government. The FBI said “Harry” Lu…