Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, was a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image…

From time to time I read that Fortran is or can be faster then C for heavy calculations. Is that really true? I must admit that I hardly know Fortran, but the Fortran code I have seen so far did no...

Updated November 15, 2023: To simplify the user experience and make Copilot more accessible to everyone, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise will now simply become Microsoft Copilot. For more information: https://aka.ms/BingIgnite We are entering a new era…

Justin Trudeau said he was not trying to "provoke" India in the row over the killing of a Sikh leader.

Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project

The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger daughter or father’s sister’s younger daughter.

A broad genetic study has revised the prevailing narrative about how wine grapes spread around the world

This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).

Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.

Ariane Lavrilleux was held overnight over a report on Egypt using French intelligence to kill civilians.

Content styles, including numerals, ordinals, dosage, temperature, fractions and percentages

Neglect is the most prevalent form of maltreatment, but it has been understudied relative to abuse. Additionally, developmental outcomes associated with early maternal withdrawal have been understudi...

Volvo Cars said on Tuesday that it will end production of any remaining diesel models by early 2024 as it heads towards becoming an all-electric carmaker.

This week we (me & Anton Kovsharov) published Paperproof, a Gentzen-tree-like proof interface for Lean 4. In this post I'll review proof visualisations from ot...

Starting in Android 14, it may not be necessary to use a third-party app to turn your smartphone into a webcam for your PC, as that functionality is getting baked into the Android OS itself — though there’s a catch.

Brazil's 50,000-year-old stone tools discovered in excavations at Pedra Furada are probably the work of capuchin monkeys, not early humans.

Organized crime groups have about 175,000 members and authors say the best way to reduce violence is to cut membership