The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.

Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
The four step plan includes
creating an adaptive interpreter…

ODROID-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device

Google, facing a U.S. antitrust lawsuit, is a major player in many businesses and minor in others. Here’s a look at its footprint in several areas.

Each year, millions of Americans fail to appear in court for low-level offenses, and warrants are then issued for their arrest. In two field studies in New York City, we make critical information salient by redesigning the summons form and providing text…

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We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …

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This is a guide to PySpark code style presenting common situations and the associated best practices based on the most frequent recurring topics across the PySpark repos we've encountered. ...

A comprehensive and user-friendly publishing toolchain for the AsciiDoc writing format. Converts AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats.

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s video streaming service Quibi is shutting down, said a person familiar with the situation,bringing down the curtain on the short-form video streaming service just six months after it launched. The closure is a stunning end to Katzenberg’s…

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And, almost incidentally, it resolves a five-decade fight for graphics supremacy.

Learn how to define your online persona, and find out different ways to increase your reach. This is the first part of my series about Gardening Your Twitter.

Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers. In technical terms, it’s the pièce de résistance for every network provider because the demands on bandwidth increase with data-intensive applications. Swisscom…

This post is a brief primer on BEAM, the virtual machine that executes user
code in the Erlang Runtime System (ERTS). It’s intended to help those new to
BEAM follow an upcoming series of posts about the JIT in OTP 24, leaving
implementation details for later.

Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.