Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out.

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us?

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.

Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in "misleading and aggressive" sales practices for two of its most popular smartphone games.

President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers

AVIF v1.2.0 includes support for sample transforms

It should have been a relatively cool year; it was anything but

Paradoxically, cleaner emissions from ships and power plants are playing a role

America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens and early 20s could leave campuses empty

Carney says Canada's relationship with China has become "more predictable" than that with the US, as his country searches for trade certainty.

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

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M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) [Back to the homebrew computers page] The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch. From the schematic and PCB to the chipset! It is not based on existing designs, but rather on my experience with…