Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be. It’s not that the courses have gotten any easier, but academic cheating has, and most schools seem powerless to stop

Just over a year ago now, I finally opened the bakery I’d been dreaming of for years. It’s been a big change in my life, from spending all my time sat in front of a computer, to spending most of it making actual stuff. And stuff that makes people happy, at…

An implementation of model parallel GPT-2 and GPT-3-style models using the mesh-tensorflow library. - EleutherAI/gpt-neo

AMD is gaining strength.

Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour

Richard Stallman says he’s coming back to the FSF and he will hopefully lead the FSF again

Message passing has always been central to Erlang, and while reasonably
well-documented we’ve avoided going into too much detail to give us more
freedom when implementing it. There’s nothing preventing us from describing it
in a blog post though, so let’s…

Practical guide to vulkan graphics programming

Web accessibility has been on my mind lately. After talking to an experienced software engineer and attending a React.js Girls event…

A Tesla regulatory counsel told the California DMV that it will remain a hands-on system.

NASA completed an engine test firing of its moon rocket Thursday, after the first attempt in January ended prematurely.

WTF? @backblaze 's B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names and sizes of my files in my B2 bucket to facebook. I noticed because I saw "waiting for facebook .com" at the bottom while trying to download a backup... ?!?!?!? I even opted out of their tracking…

The New York City Department of Corrections spent $447,337 per inmate in fiscal 2020, a third more than a year ago and more than double the fiscal 2015 mark, according to a report released Wednesday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Confirmed: Internet has been cut in #Myanmar from 1 am Monday local time, the 36th consecutive night of military-imposed shutdowns 📉 Meanwhile: 📵 Mobile data disabled: 7 days 📶 Public wifi limited: 5 days ❌ Online platforms filtered since February 📰netbl…

This post is written by Hannah Wolfman-Jones but includes a response from civil-rights expert Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU. It addresses the inclusion of Richard M. Stallman as a co-author in the book System Override: How Bitcoin, Blockchain…