My view on the state of social media in late 2023

A number of the submissions I receive here are in some way based around HTML. Bizarre as they may be, I generally excuse them: after all, just about any amateur can use some WYSWYG-editor to mangle HTML. And besides, HTML really isn't programming. But no…

Finish tech firm Nokia is suing tech giants Amazon and HP over allegations of patent infringement related to a common video compression standard. | Nokia accused Amazon of rebuffing its attempt to license technology used in Prime Video, Freevee and Twitch…

We are at a critical juncture in AI governance. To mitigate current and future harms from AI systems, we need to embrace openness, transparency, and broad access.

I’ve supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now.  To…

Editor’s note: This story is featured in the 2023 year in review. In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: Two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one…

Wrong deductions "withheld hard-earned pay from drivers," NY AG says.

We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.

Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy

AdSense is updating its revenue share-structure and moving to per-impression payments for publishers.

At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to an MIT study.

Cloudflare's R2 is an undiscovered gem and is redefining the economics of data storage

Apple patented GPU Dynamic Caching back in 2020.

A static website generator for Git repos written in Ruby.

We asked subway riders. They ratted out their furry friends.

Acute sleep loss increases dopamine release and rewires the brain, new study finds

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One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Here’s a closer look at the Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, which currently employs…

The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades, with shortages of food, fuel and medicine.