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…

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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…

Deep neural networks are often seen as different from other model classes by defying conventional notions of generalization. Popular examples of anomalous generalization behaviour include benign...