I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when...

A jury in San Jose, California, said on Tuesday that Google misused customers' cell phone data and must pay more than $314.6 million to Android smartphone users in the state, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs.

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A command line tool for reading OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite database. - GitHub - osmzoso/pbf2sqlite: A command line tool for reading OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite datab...

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‘Wind Knitting Factory’, is a wind-powered knitting machine. With this eco-friendly fashion machine, sustainable scarves are knitted.

Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec.

He had the air of a timeless movie bad guy in movies like “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill.” “I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black-and-white movies,” he said.

The statistically improbable restaurant is the unexpected awesome eatery, revealing something about the local population. Find them with data!

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article where I developed a hash calculator on an FPGA. Specifically, I implemented an SHA-256 calculator. This module computes the hash of a string (up to 25 bytes) in 68 clock cycles. The design leverages the parallelism of FPGAs…

We introduce Hibiki, a decoder-only model for simultaneous speech translation. Hibiki leverages a multistream language model to synchronously process source and target speech, and jointly produces...

Shao et al. revealed the underlying physical mechanisms of the formation of trapped
air bubbles and the growth of intermittent bubble layers. The bubble and clear ice
regions are dependent on the freezing rate, and messages can be stored by manipulating
bubble…

This was originally noscriptd “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

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Deprecates all existing std.io readers and writers in favor of the newly provided std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer which are non-generic and have the buffer above the vtable...

One of the main barriers to a wider adoption of open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be run. In this post, we show how to write agents as HTML files, which can just be opened and…

The greenback is down more than 7% this year, and Morgan Stanley predicts it could fall another 10%.