User-space developers working with highly threaded applications would often
like to be able to use spinlocks to protect shared data structures from
concurrent access. There is a fundamental problem with user-space
spinlocks, though: there is no way to prevent…

Apple's new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599...

It took 13 years for the world population to go from 7 billion to 8 billion but it will take an estimated 14 years to add another billion amid slowing growth.

Passengers said the cabin seemed "noisier and colder than they were used to." That's when a crew member noticed a window seal flapping at the back of the aircraft.

More and more, people are building products as thin wrappers over other models, especially LLMs. This can cause major issues, and there is a better way.

Binance is preparing to stop accepting Russian rubles on Nov. 15 as the exchange is wrapping its services in Russia after selling business to CommEX.

Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found myself getting confused.

BREIN planned to send warnings to BitTorrent pirates without obtaining their identities. Two courts said 'no' so BREIN will proceed with worse.

The IT news portal Heise Online warns against using the new free Microsoft Outlook. There is a risk of losing access data to e-mail accounts.

Federal authorities accused the men of bribing employees from the city’s Department of...

We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg allegedly halted proposals aimed at improving Facebook and Instagram’s impact on teen mental health, according to internal communications revealed as part of unsealed…

The bicycle and the bow are both highly efficient, human-powered technologies that could substitute for two very harmful alternatives: the car and the firearm. Why do we promote one but not the other?

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code. Contribute to githubnext/monaspace development by creating an account on GitHub.

Platforms like Resy and Tock are searching for ways around algorithms that snatch up prime-time reservations and then re-sell them to desperate diners.

Epoch and unix timestamp converter for developers. Date and time function syntax reference for various programming languages.

In the latest round of corporate downsizing, several tech industry heavyweights announced...

Apple and Amazon are once again facing scrutiny for their 2018 agreement that saw Apple finally establish an official Amazon...

Change affected a "small subset" of users and has (thankfully) been reverted.

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