Analysis of a 2022 GRUB2 fwsetup feature that causes a bootloop when loading a new config on an old GRUB2, and how it bit me two times

The European Union has signed a $11B deal to build a sovereign satellite constellation to rival Elon Musk's Starlink.

In 2024, we watched American life unfold beneath the golden arches—from Trump’s drive-through stunt to Luigi Mangione’s final hash brown.

OpenAI recently published a public writeup for an incident they had on December 11, and there are lots of good details in here! Here are some of my off-the-cuff observations: Saturation With thousa…

Universal Transformer Memory uses neural networks to determine which tokens in the LLM's context window are useful or redundant.

One in every fifty Taiwanese babies is a TSMC baby.

Solving AoC on the DS with Rust.

こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic…

The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of an enforceable undertaking received from Meta to settle civil penalty proceedings.

The jet is tens of millions of times larger than the supermassive black hole’s event horizon.

An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's son

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🧵So, here's an updated tl;dr on #Puppet as an #OpenSource project: a fork is absolutely coming now. There was a "town hall" today in which Perforce made it quite clear they are going to claim they want to work with the community while not…

The principles of programming language design for learning and teaching have been described and discussed for several decades. Most influential was the work of NiklausWirth, describing principles such as simplicity, modularity, orthogonality, and readability.…

GDP expanded in third quarter as long-running crisis begins to ease

This is a rewrite of the lead section, as I feel the previous one was overly long-winded, yet did not meaningfully summarize the most important points of the article in a way that enables readers t...

From my teenage days browsing skyscraper forums to standing atop the third tallest building in the world, I've witnessed how a single river divides two different architectural worlds that somehow form one incredible city.

multilspy is a lsp client library in Python intended to be used to build applications around language servers. - microsoft/multilspy

A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures