This is my second article about some curious fansubbing techniques that I found when watching anime. Want to know what they are? Read on to find out!

An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can lead to big differences in eye size. Gene expression is the process by which the ...

Civil liberties campaigners have joined US politicians and the BBC in saying Friday's hearing should not be secret.

From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

Since the update, the soundbar is unresponsive and can't be reset.   Seems like quite a few people with the issue

Diffusion language models offer unique benefits over autoregressive models due to their potential for parallelized generation and controllability, yet they lag in likelihood modeling and are...

An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts

Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the…

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

Transit agencies keep choosing hydrogen buses due to cognitive biases like anchoring, operational tunnel vision, and reliance on misleading narratives.

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt

I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.




Update: since this article was written, a new version of Akira ransomware has appeared that…