The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.

An interactive exploration of how long things take.

A group of roughly 600 quality assurance (QA) workers at Activision under Microsoft have successfully voted to unionize with the Communication Workers of America (CWA), becoming Activision Quality Assurance United.

This week I finished the most recent book in my self-guided study of 20th century technology, namely The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by Jon Gertner. As the noscript implies, it’s a chronicle of research and development wing…

LLMs seem surprisingly good at many things. So much so that not a week goes by without someone coming up with yet another use-case for this technology, often to solve tasks quickly that traditionally …

I wrote a 3D rigid body physics engine datapack for Minecraft 1.20, and I'm also releasing the CBScript compiler that I used to make it.
Datapack: https://sethbling.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Downloads/DataPacks/physics_sandbox.zip
CBScript Code: https:/…

Defense department releases report calling deluge of reports and claims about government reverse-engineering tech ‘inaccurate’

Everything there is to know about Windows 1.0

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The PR adds the option to configure your own OIDC client in the self-hosted version. It expands on top of the conditional auth provider implementations added in #3225 and #...

Google fired an employee who protested against Project Nimbus, the company's $1.2 billion contract with Israel's government.

In an effort to understand a benchmark I wrote, I tested how Apple altered SQLite's implementation in macOS.

Grayskull-powered DevKits are available to two versions - e75 and e150

Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for?

Proton AG of ProtonMail can provide FBI with your account recovery email.

Once your recovery email is in the hands of 3-letters agencies they can then request other data about stuff you bought, things you watched or listened, and crypto transactions or investments.…

Scientific Reports - Structure and chronology of a star dune at Erg Chebbi, Morocco, reveals why star dunes are rarely recognised in the rock record

“There’s no reason for you to jack up your prices the way you did, except to screw us"

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

We introduce the Yi model family, a series of language and multimodal models that demonstrate strong multi-dimensional capabilities. The Yi model family is based on 6B and 34B pretrained language...

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.