Generative AI is fast becoming an everyday tool across almost every field and industry. Teaching children about it should include an understanding of how it works, how to think critically about its risks and limitations, and how to use it effectively. In…

Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island

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Reports claim YouTube no longer plays in the background on Samsung Internet and Brave, breaking a popular screen-off audio workaround.

SpaceX revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training, a shift that ​could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions. Ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year, ‌SpaceX is in talks to merge with Musk’s AI company…

Exposed servers are being used for LLMjacking

Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?

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Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.

Opinion: Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

How I added Immich to my already robust photo management system to make it ridiculously robust.

In the biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, who first exposed the rampant, murderous corruption that had infiltrated Italian society

This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I’m sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing the crazy times we’re exper…

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

TLDR: I made a CLI tool that can resolve an IP address to a country, US state and even a city. https://github.com/jimaek/geolocation-tool

It works well and confirms ipinfo's findings.



Recently, I read how ipinfo finally proved what most technical people…

Cash comes as Mark Thomson takes the reins at CERN

It’s difficult to say with certainty what the most popular noscripts or genres were in the early years of computer games. Many of the games were sold directly by mail-order, or through tiny single-pro…

One old dragon that’s reared its head again in this “age of AI” is the very wrongheaded notion that productivity == code. Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev tea…

Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specificall…