A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years.

Their announcem...

Through a controlled evaluation of 180 agent configurations, we derive the first quantitative scaling principles for AI agent systems, revealing that multi-agent coordination dramatically improves performance on parallelizable tasks but degrades it on sequential…

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!

A beautiful, shareable bookshelf to track your reading journey.

Global Entry and PreCheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

It can happen to anyone.

Sam Hewitt, Human Interface Designer

A practical walk-through of a fixed-width uint128 implementation in modern C++.

A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.

Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.

This is one of those thoughts that just sits there and won’t leave me alone. I honestly think we peaked in the late 90s. Maybe I’m doing that whole nostalgia...

To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognizable under the electron microscope, they are treated with a staining agent. The standard staining agent for this is uranyl ...

Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when electricity is cheap and releases heat when needed.

So there's a thing we use at work which I call a ratchet.
In our codebase, there are "patterns" which we used to use all the time, but we decided to stop using them, but removing all of the existing instances at once is too much work. We want to remove all…