Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas failed after CEO Shan Hanes caused $47 million in wire transfers to be sent to scammers running a pig butchering scheme.

Euclid proved that √2 (the square root of 2) is an irrational number. He used a proof by contradiction. First Euclid assumed √2 was a rational number.

An esoteric, graphical functional language

For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

Rising global concentrations of environmental micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) drive concerns for human exposure and health outcomes. Applying pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) methods to isolate and quantify MNPs from human ...

(Not an anti-AI post — Copilot is great, I use it all the time.)

The Google Play Security Reward Program is being discontinued. It encouraged researchers to find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps.

The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.

Euphemisms are like underwear: best changed frequently. What work are they doing in our language and why do they expire?

An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of Fus...

A distributed lock pattern with Redis

Designing my own watch Last month a very special package arrived from Switzerland, containing my custom made wrist watch. I decided to sell all my big brand watches and have them replaced by something unique, tailored to my personal preferences. This is the…

SIMD in game development Often in game development we talk about SIMD. It is the holy grail of CPU performance, often out of reach. The conventional wisdom is that it is difficult to achieve real gains from SIMD.
It is tempting to build a math library around…

Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton.

I calculated -915,000. Every headline said -818,000. I finally gave up and posted 818,000 but noted a discrepancy. I believe it’s 915,000.