Wtf? The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was entirely full of null characters. How does this happen?

Learn how to measure the impact of the Python GIL on application latency using eBPF

Well, they do, or at least they did once.  I am thinking of a recent recording by Nikolaus Matthes, namely Markus Passion, which fills 3 compact discs and sounds remarkably like a Passion from Bach’s time.  It could even be by Bach.  The text is from the…

Nature - The already-built rover could now be scrapped for parts.

The End Poem is a freehand poem written by Julian Gough that appears when the player finishes Minecraft. It has been in the public domain since 2022.

A Blogpost series about Model Architectures Part 1: What happened to BERT and T5? Thoughts on Transformer Encoders, PrefixLM and Denoising objectives

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Separate teams find evidence of phosphine and ammonia, potential biomarkers on planet whose surface reaches 450C

/imagine one day randomly finding yourself in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from home. Your own country is suddenly at war, and all you have is a backpack hanging off your back.
That’s a weird situation to be in. But you have to figure something…

Bob Newhart, whose stammering, deadpan unflappability carried him to stardom as a standup comedian and later in television and movies, has died. He was 94.

Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to record sound. It was a Frenchman who invented sound recording in 1857.

Accidental blowouts in oil and gas wells can result in large and prolonged methane emissions, which are often unreported when happening in remote places. The rapid advancement of space-based methods for detecting and quantifying methane plumes provides an…

SearchGov is a configurable search engine built by the government, for the government, with the government. 

Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

The breads, puddings, and tarts of your grandparents' generation were made with a completely different banana.

The Nationwide Vision-Zero Map

What were the binding constraints on a Roman Industrial Revolution?