ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is a new hardware feature introduced in ARMv8.5-A architecture, aiming to detect memory corruption vulnerabilities. The low overhead of MTE makes it an...

Jonathan Haidt talks to Noema about “The Anxious Generation” and how technology is upending democracy.

The European Union debates a new law that could force platforms to scan all private messages for signs of child abuse. Its most prominent advocate is the actor Ashton Kutcher.

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Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for

In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality:
Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.…

Earning a decent, reliable income as a social-media creator is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about sponsorship deals. A possible TikTok ban is adding to anxiety over job stability.

A century after George Mallory’s disappearance on Everest, why do his words, “Because it’s there,” remain an indelible explanation for the human obsession with high places?

What if the internet were public interest technology? Is that too wildly speculative? I think not. I am not talking about a utopian project here — a public interest internet would be a glorious imperfect mess and it would be far from problem-free. But while…

Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.

The Democratic California governor told POLITICO of his plans hours after Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy argued Congress should compel tech companies to include warning labels similar to cigarettes and alcohol.

The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley

YaFSDP: Yet another Fully Sharded Data Parallel. Contribute to yandex/YaFSDP development by creating an account on GitHub.

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.