You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past

Learn more about an often-overlooked bottleneck in scaled postgres systems: postmaster contention. This deep dive into a production issue highlights how this surfaces and explains the underlying causes.

(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?

Catherine (Whitequark)’s recent observations on poorly-engineered firmware reminded me of a few mistakes I’ve seen in vendors’ CPUs; some unimportant and others surprisingly bad. Since I’ve never seen these widely discussed, here’s some discussion and links…

Adobe Animate will no longer be available on Adobe.com starting March 1, 2026.

The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical compon [...]

You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.

BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.

Adobe Animate will no longer be available on Adobe.com starting March 1, 2026.

"🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot". Contribute to HKUDS/nanobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp. Contribute to vkazanov/elcity development by creating an account on GitHub.

A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".