So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…

Supply chain attacks exploit fundamental trust assumptions in modern software development, from typosquatting to compromised build pipelines, while new defensive tools are emerging to make these trust relationships explicit and verifiable.

IRS halts Direct File, the Biden-era tax-preparation software pilot, and points to other free services

In two separate studies, Virginia Tech researchers identified age-related molecular changes in the brain and adjusted them to improve memory.

When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

After more than 200 years of sharing wit and wisdom, the 2026 Farmers' Almanac will be our last edition. But our story stays alive in you.

A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.

Changing the case of text can change the size of the corresponding QR code. This is one of the reasons Bitcoin moved from Base58 to bech32 encoding.

Video lectures, notes, and exercises in all areas of applied cryptography

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web.
In October last year I wrote “will developers care about frameworks in the future?” predicting that LLMs would abstract…

Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.

Exploring the internals of our new product, a modern Jupyter notebook built for fast startup and real-time collaboration.

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....

Building auraphone - using CBCentralManager on ios and BluetoothManager on android to make each phone broadcasts as a peripheral but also connects as central. Rooms full of phones running the app gossip.

OpenTelemetry standardizes instrumentation and pipelines so you can swap observability vendors, mix open source with commercial tools, and run hybrid data stacks without rewriting code or paying exit taxes.