On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package for executing commands as superuser (or an alternative user). When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time,...

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PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5) is here.

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month.

Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.

The government grant is less than originally expected because the chip giant is also receiving separate funding for defense-related projects.

Disclaimer 2024-12-02 Since this rant is going viral again (again (again)), some disclaimers:
I wrote this six years ago to “”“win”“” an ugly Twitter fight. I’m glad I anonymized the inciting tweet and hope I’m the only person still getting grief over this.…

What kinds of random distributions are good for the sorts of graphics work we do in game development?

The toxin is in more foods than you might think, including carrots, parsley, limes, and lemons.

Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...

John Ioannidis discusses his famous 2005 paper "Why most published research finding are false" and assesses how much progress we've made since then.

Has the research environment significantly improved?

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After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

Demystifying git submodules by showing exactly how they work.

🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. - steel-dev/steel...

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

I really don’t know where Apple goes from here or how they fix this without rolling back several changes. Ios18 is glitchy, crashes, it’s very flakey. I have a 15 pro, and I immensely regret...

On finally having to upgrade my iPhone

A sparse summary