“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

Social media company wins emergency arbitration ruling on book, Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

In the early 1930s, Pascual Jordan attempted to formalise the algebraic properties of Hermitian matrices. In particular: Hermitian matrices form a real vector space: we can add and subtract Hermiti…

A millennium ago, the Chimú built a new way oflife in the vast city of Chan Chan

HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...

Nature Communications - Emulating the concept of natural photosynthesis has long been a focus of chemists in an effort to harness solar light as an energy source using water as an electron donor...

✨Daniel Joyce used the techniques described in this post to port ls to rust via an objdump. You can see the code here: https://github.com/DanielJoyce/ls-rs. Keen, to see more examples - get in contact if you ship something!

Damien Guard nerd sniped me and…

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ...

Raspberry Pi last year announced the RP2350 second-generation micro-controller that debuted within their $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single board computer

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods

Cloudflare is now using a wall of waves in our Lisbon, Portugal office to create entropy and strengthen Internet security, turning liquid chaos into secure, unpredictable encryption.

 The only rule of a tale is that everything gets used, even apparently superfluous details – though you’re allowed...

zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems. - zlib-ng/zlib-ng

As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously…