From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.

The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts. But the iPhone Air proves otherwise. Apple has somehow built its…

There is another lesson from the numbers: CEOs are paid less than the value they bring to their companies. More concretely, CEOs capture only about 68–73 percent of the value they bring to their firms. For purposes of comparison, one recent estimate suggests…

More communication is not necessarily better communication.

A teenage boy suspected of involvement in the 2023 cyberattacks that disrupted the two largest Las Vegas casino companies has surrendered to authorities,

An implementation of parallelizable GRUs and LSTMs for CS179 in CUDA.

After years as a parent and homeowner, I sympathize more with my virtual citizens.

How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it

Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.

The rise of AI-powered coding has created an unexpected market: cleaning up the technical debt from prompt-generated software. Here's why 'Vibe Coding cleanup' is becoming a legitimate service category and what it means for the future of software development.

AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.

Blog by Walid Dib featuring learning insights into game development with Godot, and building startups in the Middle East.

An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer. Also available on web site: online catalogs, secure online ordering, excerpts from new books. Sign up for email notification of new releases in your field.

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Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

I asked three different commercially available LLMs the same question: Which TLDs have the same name as valid HTML5 elements? This is a pretty simple question to answer. Take two lists and compare them. I know this question is possible to answer because…

How do you identify books in another language that are rich in vocabulary you would like to learn? Here we discuss mathematical methods for solving this problem.