The TeX Live 2025 ISO is finally here! It’s available to you now in four ways:

Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

Here is part seven (the final part) of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five an…

A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots.

Aeschylus is credited first for the time-worn aphorism that in war, truth is the first casualty. But in the next major conflict, truth could find itself joined by virtually all information.  As a society at war, we face becoming blind, deaf and dumb once…

Bispecific antibodies incorporating a cross-reactive NTD-specific antibody are resilient to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

Nato countries could be forced to plan manoeuvres without US as Trump continues pivot away from bloc

This man had a passion for his work. I admire that a lot.

One of the most impressive games of the 80s was Sublogic’s Flight Simulator.

Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux …

The major investor in OpenAI has been looking to cut ties as the two companies start looking more like competitors.

Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered underneath the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.

This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading. …

It is said that life begins at the age of 40 — I hope it is true … After 23 years of working in IT and spending the last 12 years in a…

Download free open-source apps in APK format for Android, safe, ads-free and privacy friendly. Sourced from Github, Gitlab and beyond.

A deep dive into the performance of Python 3.14's tail-call interpreter: How the performance results were confounded by an LLVM regression, the surprising complexity of compiling interpreter loops, and some reflections on performance work, software engineering…

I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century".

The "compressed 21st century" comes from Dario's "Machine of Loving Grace" and if you haven’t…