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Citing national security concerns, the federal government has ordered TikTok to shutter its Canadian operations — but users will still be able to access the popular video app.

Scott Smith is a kind of living Battlezone encyclopaedia. Obviously, I had to speak to him.

A lisp dialect based on pattern matching and term rewriting - abuseofnotation/termlisp

"He has broken my trust too many times", the chancellor said of his Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

Viewing my binary file with ImHex. The pattern language pane, on the right,...

The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year.

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside neutron stars.

The number of births of Japanese children in the first half of 2024 has continued its alarming downward trend, with only 329,998 babies born between January and June.

Collection of side projects, conference talks and blog posts experimenting with frontend technologies and human-computer interaction

Screens sprayed with coffee after techies find Microsoft's latest OS in unexpected places

You may be familiar with the truffle oil scam, but everything else you think you know about truffles is probably a lie too.

In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple return value from another API.

Let's start with when you should use named tuples. Usually…

A personal perspective on the complex role English plays in Japan.

Nvidia Corp. became the largest company in the world on Tuesday, surpassing Apple Inc. and underscoring just how dominant artificial intelligence has become on Wall Street.

A new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage

Recent work suggests that large language models may implicitly learn world models. How should we assess this possibility? We formalize this question for the case where the underlying reality is...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.