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France has passed a law protecting the “sensory heritage” of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside.

Microsoft is opening up old Win32 APIs long used for 32-bit Windows programming, letting coders use languages of their choice instead of the default C/C++ option.

Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.

The kernel project goes out of its way to facilitate building with older
toolchains. Building a kernel on a new system can be enough of a challenge
as it is; being forced to install a custom toolchain first would not
improve the situation. So the kernel…

management of Fedora Project updates

Recently, Juliana has gotten into Stardew Valley. Hard. Since I’m a huge fan myself, I'm doing a Game Design Perspective on the game to celebrate. I'll be looking at the game mechanics and how the interlocking layers make the game tick. In Stardew Valley…

Suspicious files contacting Russian servers are thought to have been found on devices given to schools.

Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.

We’re coming up on the tenth anniversary of LMDB, and I’ve been thinking back to the bad old days of cache tuning that we struggled with, before LMDB’s advent. As noted in the LMDB design doc tuning caches used to be a major pain point in administering OpenLDAP.…

Cryptocurrencies have given rise to an entire new criminal industry, but financial regulators and law-enforcement agencies remain asleep at the wheel

Joggers who jiggle should stop fooling themselves: the idea that you can be chubby but healthy is false, a study suggests.The debate has raged for years: is it

With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries man