In 2022, a Melbourne start-up announced they’d taught neurons in a dish to play Pong. Now, they’re selling a "biological computer" made of thousands of human neurons.

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.

A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my colleague and friend, Roman Dobrokhotov. The Bulgarians…

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Optimization is hard. And sometimes, the compiler makes it even harder.

It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game launched. I am constantly forgetting major moments in development…

DataFrames for the new era

To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

Python's help() function accepts more than functions, modules, and objects. The help() function can lookup help for symbols, keywords, and topics!

A more detailed explanation of an old Martin Gardner puzzle.

For years, a towing company cut the lines at the DMV in exchange for deep discounts on towed cars, according to an internal DMV report, showing the agency’s oversight failures.

Tesla reported 8,600 sales in three days, triggering $43 million in government EV rebates. A single Toronto Tesla location claimed over 1,200 sales, raising concerns about possible rebate misuse. Transport Canada is investigating potential irregularities…

GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, is one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.

Brazil could be the next market to get iOS sideloading.

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass…

With memory safety becoming more important in the world of computer science, I offer a brief opinion piece on why I choose to implement codecs in C.

Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer