📌 This is a cross-post from DEVCORE. The research was first published at Black Hat Europe 2024. Personally, I would like to thank splitline, the co-author of this research & article, whose help

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.

A deep dive into how browser cache partitioning has fundamentally changed web performance optimization, examining the trade-offs between privacy and performa...

Nature - Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.

The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

I think all technical writers, at some point or another, feel the urge to base their work on something more systematic than “it’s just the way folks documented stuff since forever”. Toolkits and frameworks provide content types, which is immensely valuable…

Richard Brautigan's poem " All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace " is somewhat well known in tech. circles but I couldn't find a comp...

Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school makers & student-led coding clubs where young people build the agency, the network, & the technical talent to think big & do big things in the world.

The plant features 12 reversible pump-turbine units, each with a capacity of 300 MW, including two variable-speed units, bringing the total installed capacity to 3.6 GW.

If you want to leave Facebook, here’s how to get your data and delete your account.

Nature - Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network, a tabular foundation model, provides accurate predictions on small data and outperforms all previous methods on datasets with up to 10,000 samples by a...

Guest Post: Investigating the least likely suspect in router configuration.

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron in our hand — ouch! — and if we’re good at sold…

Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

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Op-ed: TVs miss opportunity for real improvement by prioritizing corporate needs.