When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.

At re:publica, Digital Minister Wildberger advocates for more sovereignty and calls for alternatives to digital payments and social media.

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...

Cute Framework is a simple, yet powerful C/C++ framework for building 2D games using the modern GPU pipeline. While C or C++ is fine, Swift is a modern language that many developers prefer for its safety and expressiveness. In this post, we will explore how…

In which I argue for the usefulness of the most hated part of speech

Odyc.js is a simple JavaScript library to create interactive narrative games, even without coding experience.

Last month I began the much anticipated AMD Strix Halo Linux benchmarking at Phoronix by testing the top-end Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 that features 16 cores / 32 threads and the very impressive Radeon 8060S integrated graphics.

Meta's AI app makes private chats public — often without users realizing. Mozilla is urging Meta to fix the design and protect user privacy.

Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.

Learn about rate limiting algorithms with interactive apps, including Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Fixed Window, and Sliding Window methods

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Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.

“We see this opportunity, this light,” said CEO Debbie Marr. “We took our chances.”

Learn how Dependabot can be co-opted to exploit some sensitive workflows, through the Confused Deputy Problem and branch name injections.

Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.The conjuring proceeds with hope.…

Sandia jumps into top five of brain-like supercompute with disk-free, DRAM-packed SpiNNaker 2