Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom

A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.

You know that mildly jarring experience whenever that well-known celebrity shows up in an entirely different context -- e.g. a musician making a horror

This paper introduces a novel Bayesian learning model to explain the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on their core optimization metric of next token prediction. We develop a...

Can't switch off from work? Envy those 'lazy' strikers? In this 1932 essay, Bertrand Russell, socialist and winner of some minor award called the Nobel Prize in Literature, presents the case for idleness. One can also download and/ or listen to an audio version…

The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors.

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that Tyson Foods has dumped millions of pounds of toxins into America waterways.

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha noscript after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows.

A recent test of the emergency alert system found only 1 percent got it via AM.

The Archegos founder who erased his fortune in a blink — and helped bring down Credit Suisse — heads to trial next week with his faith unshaken.

Verified Rust for low-level systems code. Contribute to verus-lang/verus development by creating an account on GitHub.

We are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. Becoming a parent showed me how tempting, and how dangerous, that exchange can be.

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Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand and beneath it lies an equally sprawling network of lava caves.

Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long-time Industrial Designer at Atari coin-operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away. I’ve known Mike since 2016, and whils…