Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University, and has written extensively about the civil rights movement. Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret... READ MORE

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Even the biggest future blockbuster drugs can be prematurely abandoned.

How Claude turned around its failing vending machine business

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you…

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

The Xbox brand effectively died this year. But can it be resurrected as a PC platform?

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Framing our phones as glossy portraits of the world comes at a cost: we spend more time gazing instead of gaining utility.

Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale - arximboldi/immer

Jens Alfke’s Weblog

Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.

Despite how widely used the ESP32 is, its Bluetooth stack remains closed source. Let’s dive into the low-level workings of a proprietary Bluetooth peripheral. Whether you are interested in reverse ...

Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

Rex is a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF. - rex-rs/rex

A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.

Dialtone Console - P3 server for retro AOL 3.0 clients