A few weeks before the release of my first book, a memoir about my mother’s murder, I had to take a polygraph exam. The two things were not in fact related, but that was easy to forget once I found…

Rust is great, and I hope it is used more. However, I hope it won't be used for everything, and here's why.

OpenAI whistleblowers filed a complaint with the SEC where they allege the AI company is silencing employees from sharing concerns about its AI technology.

Electric vehicle industry says spring data shows installations are keeping pace with rising battery sales

Long before the days of celebrity voices calling out directions while you drive, paper-based attempts at mobile mapping generated an intriguing array of proto-GPS systems, including this quirky pair of manual and automated moving map displays. As early as…

A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and…

Full python interactive 3D Gaussian Splatting viewer for real-time editing and analyzing. - Florian-Barthel/splatviz

Recent studies show it wasn’t the climate that did them in.

L402 is an http-based payment flow for MCP, AI Agents, and more.

As a tribute to Cleopatra, whose glorious destiny ended in tragic snake circumstances, we are proud to release Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language model specialised in code generation, available under an Apache 2.0 license.

A new way to make games

In a previous post, I used a simple interpreter bug to demonstrate the research skill of manually reducing test cases. This time, I show off the excellent Shrinkray reducer to see how it can automate the same process. The tricky part when using automated…

A dozen things I have learned as I reflect on my long career

When we invented Private Browsing back in 2005, our aim was to provide users with an easy way to keep their browsing private from anyone who shared the same device.