Just 50 years after the Roman Empire grew to its largest size, a mysterious and crippling pandemic known as the Antonine plague brought it to its knees. Research on climate change and in other areas is shedding light into how the plague, which preceded centuries…

Learn how we discovered what was slowing down large database queries, and what we did to make Postgres queries 1000x faster.

Automate production logistics - logging, trannoscription, organization, and rough cut assembly. Scale video operations without adding costs.

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Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastr…

We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.

Plane, like any other open-source B2B software, offers both a Cloud hosted edition and a self-managed one. While our Cloud users far outnumber our self-hosted users, it's nice to see for an early-stage start-up like ours an estimated 50,000+ active self-managed…

This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we s…

Chemists have a familiarity with many elements and many compounds, from having worked with them or studied them in the literature. You get a feel for what's "normal" and for what's unusual, and there are quite a few degrees of the latter. Take compounds of…

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

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A bug in iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing photos that were deleted years ago for some iPhone users, according to...

Water from Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of U.S. demand for the metal, according to a new Pitt study.

As founder-friendly as VCs claim to be, they remain investment professionals. Many first-time founders are oblivious to this nuance, and are in for a rude awakening when they start their raise.

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Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.