Let’s talk about graphs, Hamiltonian cycles, NP-problems and backtracking search.

As has often been pointed out, the stable-kernel releases are meant to be
stable; that means they should be even more averse to ABI breaks than
mainline releases, if that is possible. This may be a hard promise to keep
for the next set of stable kernels…

A practical look at 2G GSM security after three decades

Owners are turning to hacked software from Eastern Europe as farm equipment companies won't license it to them directly.

How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity

Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is exceptionally radioactive. A team of chemists has overcome…

The Python steering council has, after some discussion, accepted the
controversial proposal to add a
pattern-matching primitive to the language.
"We acknowledge that
Pattern Matching is an extensive change to Python and that reaching
consensus across the…

Root cause analysis (RCA) is an important part of fixing any bug. After all, you can’t solve a problem without getting to the heart of it. But RCA isn’t always simple, especially at a scale like Fa…

Dear Community, On behalf of the Haxe Foundation, we are proud to announce the official release of Haxe 4.2.0! It is available along with the changelog at https://haxe.org/download/version/4.2.0/ Here are the most notable features made into this release:…

Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking

Mark Huberty & Clare Corthell, Lyft Mapping

Now we know that the mysterious ‘Queen’s consent’ is more than just a procedural formality, it must be scrapped, says Adam Tucker, a lecturer in constitutional law

FYI, this coming week we plan to move SDL development from Mercurial and Bugzilla to GitHub. On Wednesday we’ll bring down the public services and I’ll send out an update when the transition is complete, with instructions on how to access the new repository.…

Beverly Hills Cop-yright: Multiple cops in Beverly Hills have started playing music while citizens are filming them, seemingly in an attempt to trigger Instagram's copyright filters vice.com/en/article/bvx…

In the previous parts of this series we studied the core of the CPython interpreter and saw how the most fundamental aspects of Python are...

Non-fungible token (NFT) is a term used to describe a unique digital asset whose ownership is tracked on a blockchain, such as Ethereum. Assets that can be represented as NFTs range from digital goods, such as items that exist within virtual worlds, to claims…