America is in toy overload, and it might just be ruining fun.

The deficiencies of the Unit Sphere and an exploration of Lie groups.

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2…

Discover how Google Quantum AI achieved a landmark quantum error correction breakthrough, paving the way to fault-tolerant computing.

Real-time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows

Malicious attacks on open-source software packages are a growing concern. The discovery of the XZ Utils backdoor intensified these concerns because of the potential widespread impact. This study,...

The AI algorithm helps researchers visualize ultrafast videos from any viewpoint, allowing for the study of how light propagates from multiple perspectives.  

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and they deported him to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died. This was a fascinating family history…

Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser

In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.

A cross platform lightweight single-header simple-to-use window abstraction library for creating graphical programs or libraries. - ColleagueRiley/RGFW

Yesterday John Graham-Cumming posted about
“Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question,”
and in the Hacker News discussion, among the
predictable “interview culture is flawed!!” complaints, there was some discussion of
whether binary search…

Musings about async await again and why I think virtual threads

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