Passive radio signals sent by cellular stations could detect small boats and improve security at ports and harbors

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There are tools and there are toys. I bought myself a tool.

The modular, open-source grid storage system.

The at-home test is billed as a non-invasive alternative to hormonal birth control methods — and early tests have shown promising results.

Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following…

Python dataclasses are a really nice feature for constructing classes that primarily hold or work with data. They can be a good alternative to using dictionaries, since they allow you to add method…

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted.

A C++ expression -> x64 JIT. Contribute to BitFunnel/NativeJIT development by creating an account on GitHub.

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a fly with parasitic fungi bursting from their bodies.

Microsoft wants to avoid another CrowdStrike incident.

Research platform for analyzing systemic misalignment in AI alignment methods

Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time

[The wordpress markdown inclusion does a very bad job, it seems, there have been some idiotic formatting errors. I hope that these are fixed, now.] A years-long effort led by Kayvan Memarian and Pe…