The 'Problematic Paper Screener' (PPS, WCRI'22, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04895) flagged 12k+ questionable articles featuring tortured phrases, such as 'glucose bigotry' instead of 'glucose intolerance.' It daily screens the literature for 'fingerprints'…

When Adblock Plus extension updates, it opens a webpage to sell users a "premium" version of the extension. But before showing the actual content of that webpage, there is a 8-second progress bar.

This is a fake progress bar, it measures nothing, no work…

Functional programming language based on pure de Bruijn indexed lambda calculus.

I was browsing the internet the other day and came across a link to the first website on the Web: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Go ahead, click it. Believe it or not, it still works perfectly in modern browsers a thousand years later!

Google is making some changes in Google Maps that will increase user privacy.

“Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.

SkySafe Miscellaneous Reverse Engineering Blog. Contribute to skysafe/reblog development by creating an account on GitHub.

Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Re...

LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services

In response to “warehousing” and THE CITY’s coverage, measure cues up inspections of hazardous conditions in empty units.

Threads has been promising to join the fediverse since the product launched. Now it looks like it’s starting to roll out. A lot of people are really concerned about this and are threatening to defederate from Threads if/when it arrives. I don’t get it.

After 5,000 photos, Martin Bond has decided to conclude his project, which showcased the city's mundane and extraordinary moments

A ramjet engine utilizing rotating detonation combustion could offer major efficiencies for future high-speed air vehicle designs.

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

[Link: ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor | https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003151/bytedance-china-openai-microsoft-competitor-llm | The Verge]
In today’s issue of Command Line, I reported that ByteDance has been violating…

I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.

Today I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers.