Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling light on interwar Britain.  

The march on performance with desktop platforms has unique challenges compared to other platforms. Peak single thread throughput is often considered the Holy Grail, with a fast follow up of good multi-core and all-core performance given the nature of how…

Can get your coders to free my last name from icloud jail? Been locked out for 6+ months because of an uncapitalized t in TRUE, my surname but also a computer command. Now that I a layman have explained problem to you a giant computer company, could u fix?…

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Can get your coders to free my last name from icloud jail?
Been locked out for 6+ months because of an uncapitalized t in TRUE, my surname but also a computer command.

Now that I a layman have explained problem to you a giant computer company, could u fix?…

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I recently came across a Transformer Read-Only Storage (TROS) module that stored microcode in an IBM System/360 mainframe computer. This unu...

A former graduate student reflects on how Isadore Singer, who died on February 11, brought together mathematicians, physicists and anyone else interested in the deeper connections between diverse fields.

In his latest novel, the gaze of an inhuman narrator gives us a new perspective on human life, a vision that is at once deeply ordinary and profoundly strange.

To build a successful community, you have to be aligned on the why behind it. Turns out, there's a lot of wrong answers to this question!

Own your data, all of it.

A tongue-in-cheek game called Electric Zine Maker saved me from pandemic burnout – and gave me a new community