The Defense Department operates slot machines on US military bases overseas, raising tens of millions of dollars to fund recreation for troops—and creating risks for soldiers prone to gambling addiction.

Catriona walks us through the creation of the beloved cartoon’s scenery and backgrounds, from its dollhouse proportions and subtle doggy details, to its distinctly Brisbanite atmosphere.

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Stop vibe-coding blindly! Why reading AI-generated code is crucial in 2025. Avoid security flaws, architectural decay, and knowledge loss when using Claude Code or any other tool.

KDE Plasma on Wayland is tightening its grip on focus stealing, with developers preparing the system for stricter enforcement.

Between the early 1990s and 2015 the relationship between mental despair and age was hump-shaped in the United States: it rose to middle-age, then declined later in life. That relationship has now changed: mental despair declines monotonically with age due…

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"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new noscripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called "The World Wide Web". After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy…

A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy.

: Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Could shining light through the human head be the key to affordable deep brain imaging? Glasgow researchers think so.

An in-depth exploration of what happens when Rust and C memory allocators collide, featuring crash analysis.

Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...

AI tools were supposed to free up our time—but they’re increasing our cognitive load and making us less productive. Here’s what’s really happening (and how to use them without burning out).

A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.

The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it