OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, …

Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.

Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive

"Right now, we're just asking for prayers," Mayor Cherelle Parker said. She urged residents to stay away from the scene.

There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial sy…

Research published Tuesday is the first to connect the dots between a common herpes virus, head injury, and Alzheimer's.

A Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

A retro on some of the reasons we chose to build Tracebit in C#.

[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy…

Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inhe…

Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…

Longtime official retires after clash “over access to sensitive payment systems.”…

This fact sheet details an analysis of three firmware package versions of the Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor used by the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector.

Musk’s allies repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems, according to the Washington Post.

In 2013, inspired by GitHub's octocat, I too wanted a mascot. It wasn't something I exactly needed, but I thought would be interesting to have...

Viruses may play a surprising part

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia - hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries…

Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing