After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US Army Air Force had plans to drop a third bomb on August 19, 1945—with more to come if necessary. Fat Man bomb casing at the USAF Museum

Development of Gazette and related projects. Gazette has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Elias Canetti described “The Book Against Death” as “the only book that I was born to write;” it was also a book he could not finish, or even properly start.

With macOS Sequoia this fall, using apps that need access to screen recording permissions will become a little bit more...

# RLHF is just barely RL

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the third (and last) major stage of training an LLM, after pretraining and supervised finetuning (SFT). My rant on RLHF is that it is just barely RL, in a way that I think is not…

Some conversations are difficult to have with members of older generations who grew up with different social norms. In particular, when you’re talking to people who grew up with PDP-11s with their completely flat memory, or Lisp machines or Burroughs Large…

Stare into the eyes of a stranger

GPS can be hacked, so airplanes and ships need a backup system. These quantum physicists think they have an answer.

We sat down with Kyle Wiens, the CEO of iFixit, to hear the story behind its failed partnership with Samsung.

If Deutsche Bahn trains are too unpunctual, they are not allowed to cross the Swiss border. This is happening more and more frequently.

⚡Find Nuclear Stations near you

This blog post takes a look at the years where eBPF was one of the kernel subsystems that grabbed the attention of a lot of security researchers. We will tell the story of how we discovered CVE-2023-2163, what our root-cause analysis process looked like,…