The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.

Quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest and coolest phenomena in physics, but it's absolutely not a method for sending messages faster than light, for subtle and complicated reasons.

This is not something I was expecting or ever imagining I would write; I’ve just heard. This is a tremendous loss for us all. Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREngOur dear friend and treasured …

Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania

I spent the last week looking for a memory leak in Postgres’s WAL Sender process. I spent a few days getting more acquainted with Valgrind and gcc/clang sanitizers, but ultimately got nowhere useful with them. Finally, I stumbled on the memleak program from…

To attract new talent, employers often offer new hires higher wages than existing employees. But today, a combination of regulatory changes and technological advances have dramatically increased pay transparency in many sectors, making employees increasingly…

The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) has drawn up a draft bill that will make end-to-end encryption mandatory for messengers and cloud services in the future.

The world’s first large methanol-enabled container vessel has been named "Ane Mærsk" at a ceremony in the shipyard of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) in Ulsan, South Korea.

Overlay networks based on WebRTC. Contribute to pojntfx/weron development by creating an account on GitHub.

The DeepMind founder has a track record of insane AI breakthroughs. Can he do it within the Google mothership?

As Weller Book Works celebrates its 90th anniversary — a millennia in bookstore years — on Aug. 17, its owners Tony and Catherine Weller look back on their bookstore’s history, how the store is doing now and their plans for the future.

We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.

The radical new machine might be built faster and cost less than an equivalent conventional atom smasher, boosters say

Your skin heals from cuts and scrapes on its own − what if concrete could do that too?

Japan’s Mazda was once the world’s only automaker to use Wankel rotary engine tech in its cars. In late 2023 it released its first model in more than a decade to run on a rotary engine. Why the focus on this older technology in the emerging age of the electric…

xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Big turnaround from Dell's previous pro-WFH stance.

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