MIT political scientist Mariya Grinberg’s new book, “Trade in War,” examines why warring countries keep trading with each other.

Ask twenty different people what led to the fall of Rome, and you’ll get twenty different answers. Experts will give you an array of opinions, depending on their area of specialization or what thesis paper they’re writing. There is no single right answer.…

Strongly Happens Before? It started innocently enough. I just wanted to brush up on C++ memory orderings. It’s been a while since I last stared into the abyss of std::atomic, so I figured, why not revisit some good ol’ std::memory_order mayhem?

Nonprofits are offering cut-price apartments as a way of combating the housing affordability crisis.

The Dependency Manager for iOS & Mac projects.

Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.

This is SO messed up. 🫥

I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...

Insights into AI bots, models, and services.

I've been slowly removing Google apps from my life, and one of the last ones left is Authenticator. In this post I look at migrating codes out of Authenticator to a command-line OTP tool, and the steps involved.

Updates to the Bear license

The 300MW Thurrock Storage project, developed by Statera Energy, is now energised and delivering electricity flexibly to the network across London and the south east.

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The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

Agency leaders sound the alarm.

Funders test algorithms to spot promising science, raising hopes of faster reviews—and fears of bias

Concurrency breaks ordering by design, but sometimes we need both. Explore three methods to preserve order in concurrent Go applications, from standard ReplyTo channels to sophisticated permission passing, with benchmarks and real-world trade-offs.

International Association of Genocide Scholars joins growing number of experts warning that Israel has committed war crimes

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but their varying capabilities and costs pose challenges in practical applications. LLM routing addresses this by...