The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

The National Archives and Records Administration does more than just preserve documents: It’s the scaffolding of the American political system.

I've made my own web-based coding environment for working on little projects.
A few years ago I found Glitch.
It's great: a web-based coding environment that makes it really easy to quickly start edit

Foundation models have become general-purpose assistants, exhibiting diverse capabilities across numerous domains through training on web-scale data. It remains challenging to precisely...

Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience…

Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS. Contribute to noperator/yknotify development by creating an account on GitHub.

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February. 13, meet the groups fighting…

Here is a rough approximation of float multiplication (source): float rough_float_multiply(float a, float b) { constexpr uint32_t bias = 0x3f76d000; return bit_cast<float>(bit_cast<uint32_…

Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout, nutrition and weight tracker - wger-project/wger

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the volcanoes become ...

Nature - The deadly cancer is often not found until it has spread to other parts of the body.

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly…

Sources inside FEMA say DOGE representative Kyle Schutt gained access to FEMA’s proprietary software controlling payments.

I majorly use two tools for my coding workflow and one of them is GVim (on Windows). It’s my primary choice for editing text for ten years now and...

Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to…

Chaos in Washington, DC, is forcing some to move to new platforms.

Update: Thank you everyone for all the heartfelt and encouraging emails in response to this post. I can’t reply to all of them, but I do read every single one. <3
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I…

Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally’s controversial and confidential order.