I'll be looking for a new job soon, readers! And this has been cause for some reflection. In Emeryville, CA, there is an "international...

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Performance comparison of parallel ray tracing in functional programming languages - athas/raytracers

The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.

Natural-gas prices have bounced back from the 25-year low reached late last month, but analysts and traders don’t expect them to go much higher. At least until it is time to turn on the heat.

Google's Open Usage Commons for the Istio project falls short of expectations

The popular anti-cheat BattlEye is widely used by modern online games such as Escape from Tarkov and is considered an industry standard anti-cheat by many. In this article I will demonstrate a method I have been utilizing for the past year, which enables…

JOP: a Java Processor Core for FPGA

Ivan Kirigin of Tango.vc interviews Trevor Blackwell, the cofounder of Y Combinator and Anybots. Trevor has invested in dozens of robotics startups through Y...

I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ”machine learning” field that leads to…

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Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and leading cybersecurity experts today urged the Supreme Court to rein in the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)—and protect

The importance of testing in modern software development is really hard to overstate. Delivering a successful product is not something you do once and forget about, but is rather a continuous and recurring process. With every line of code that changes,…

How did the city of elegant classicism give birth to an explosive modernism, threatening to destroy its very traditions?

Online abuse of trust is one of the topics I’ve studied deeply, including significant work toward an unfinished PhD, and over two years working on a spam and abuse team at Google. These days my main work is on 2D graphics, but seeing patterns of misinformation…

We hear a lot about how AMD is now a big challenger to Intel, but it still lags far behind Chipzilla when it comes to company valuation. Lisa Su’s firm has a market cap of $62.5 billion, almost a quarter…