Meta has promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots' sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails.

Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people

Interviewed by Hansen Hsu and Marc Weber on 2023-11-28 in Mountain View, CA
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Caroline Rose, née Rufolo, was born (1947) and raised in Queens, New York. She suffered rheumatic fever as a child and alternated between home school and…

Everything, On the Main Thread, All at Once
Arrays are in every web developer's toolbox, and there are a dozen ways to iterate over them. Choose wrong, though, and all of that processing time will happen synchronously in one long, blocking task. The thing…

``Pasta alla Cacio e pepe'' is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the...

Together with some friends, I decided earlier this year to particpate in the Carbage run 2025 Winter edition. This is a 6-day journey in winter all the way through Sweden to the polar circle, and back down to Helsinki in a group of roughly 400 cars.

One…

Here's how Apple took the iPhone 16 Pro's video capture and playback to another level with 4K 120fps slow-mo recording, spatial audio and new Audio Mix editing tools.

and how we upgraded 150+ services at once

OSAKA -- Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures to their deaths

Most accurate pendulum clock on the planet. A project to lock a pendulum master clock to atomic clock.

Explaining multiple techniques for rendering outlines and highlights for real-time applications. This includes vertex object-space as well as screen-space methods. This can be used to render outlines in Unity or Unreal. Outlines can be used for gameplay reasons…

swc4j (SWC for Java) is an ultra-fast JavaScript and TypeScript compilation and bundling tool on JVM. - caoccao/swc4j

Is 1970s distributed systems theory finally meeting 2020s kernel development?

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — As of Tuesday, Kodak has finished upgrading its film production and finishing facilities to keep up with demand. As Chief Technical Officer Terry Taber says, a five-week sh…

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

a bunch of weird and random technical stuff

Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effectively to rapidly build and deploy your…