xAI’s new Grok feature is creating a flood of deepfakes.

Telcos want it both ways, urging SCOTUS to block federal rules and state laws.

On the outskirts of Helsinki, a pioneering factory is harvesting natural, scalable proteins all from fermented bacteria. Could this be the future of food?

An experiment in javanoscript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France.…

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From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Study co-led by Mass General Brigham found that one in four patients with severe brain injury who appeared unresponsive responded to instructions covertly. Understanding this phenomenon can help guide decisions about life-sustaining treatment, goals of care…

The new version of the Underground map created by Maxwell Roberts has proved to be a hit.

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known writing system in the world, which documents millennia…

Haxe-based language for defining 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns.

Efficient filtering of polygonal shapes with closed-form solutions based on Green’s theorem with piecewise-polynomial filters (e.g. box/bilinear/bicubic).

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