Recent testing revealed that Arch Linux, Pop!_OS, and even Nobara Linux, which is maintained by a single developer, all outstripped Windows for the performance crown on Windows-native games. The testing was run at the high-end of quality settings, and Valve's…

Governments can access records related to push notifications from mobile apps by requesting that data from Apple and Google, according to details in court records and a US senator.

One month after a major round of layoffs impacted roughly 100 Bungie employees of 1,200, those remaining at the Destiny developer say the cuts, as well as other cost-cutting measures, came alongside an apparent scramble by studio leadership to avoid a total…

How Snap, Inc. hired me by promising a huge equity grant and then pulled the rug out from under my feet.

We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …

Monet was always more than just an eye. He was a painter of heart and brain, feeling and memory. Late in life, when...

The C++ library has long been organized around stream classes, at least when it comes to reading and parsing strings. But streams can be surprisingly slow. For example, if you want to parse numbers, then this C++ routine is close to being the worst possible…

A “Floppy RAID” might sound like the noscript of a frustrating niche adult movie, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a homebrew project by Daniel Blade Olson* which cobbles together five 3.5” floppy drives into a redundant disk array. RAID means either extra speed…

If you feel like your income hasn't kept up with rising prices, you're not alone. These tips can help.

For interviews, it's not what you've done, it's how you explain what you've done. It's that fundamental difference which makes storytelling a critical interview skill.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has unveiled plans for what could potentially become the world's largest nuclear-powered containership.

A new report outlines the dismal state of England’s physical and 'social' infrastructure – from public services in health and education to the parks, cinemas and train stations that prop up

In my previous post, I walked through the task of formally deducing one lemma from another in Lean 4. The deduction was deliberately chosen to be short and only showcased a small number of Lean tac…

The sperm whale communication system, consisting of groups of clicks called codas, has been primarily analyzed in terms of the number of clicks and their inter-click timing. This paper brings a new dimension to the study of sperm whale communication — spectral…

Recently, I took a look at Nintendo’s MMC line of mappers, and some other boards. All boards for the NES’ western releases had to be manufactured by Nintendo...

A bill introduced in the House and Senate would prevent hedge funds from owning single-family houses in the United States.