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

: IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes

An unofficial PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed created through the process of static recompilation. - hedge-dev/UnleashedRecomp

Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years,

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Experience the golden age of telegraphy with this authentic 1875 telegraph simulator. Practice Morse code, send messages between cities, and connect with other operators.

Perlin noise for procedural generation. Learn to create realistic mountains, cliffs, and caves with parameters like persistence, lacunarity, and Fractal Brownian Motion.

GrapheneOS network location implementation is now available in the Stable channel after several rounds of fixes and improvements for it.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114076777599414646

We had to fix an upstream Android system_server crash bug it…