Reflexes start to decline in your 20s, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be competitive at first-person shooters any more. Keith Stuart shares some hard-won knowledge

One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?

There were many languages that pre-dated Fortran. This series is based on the white paper by Knuth and Pardo published in 1976, “The early development of programming languages”. In this paper the a…

This post documents my journey to find a cloud storage provider that is better than Microsoft OneDrive and migrating all my cloud files there.

Serving double life + 40 years without parole for nonviolent convictions. Widespread support for clemency. #FreeRoss

It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

Get answers for CLI commands from ChatGPT right from your terminal - abhagsain/ai-cli

Programming news, technology, and just useful information

Move for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production

Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects

Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger on crypto in 2018. Absolutely nailed it.

Turns out the old guys actually know what they’re talking about… who knew.

The merge window for the 6.1 release brought in basic support for writing kernel code in Rust
— with an emphasis on "basic". It is possible to create a "hello world"
module for 6.1, but not much can be done beyond that. There is, however, a
lot more Rust…

The FBI is concerned that the Chinese government could use TikTok to influence American users or control their devices. The company is working with the U.S. government towards a security agreement.

Qatar’s about-face on alcohol signaled that FIFA, soccer’s governing body, may no longer be in full control of its showcase championship.

A report by Elastic Security Labs found that 6.2% of malware ends up on macOS devices. However, almost 50% of this malware come from one source, a utility software suite called MacKeeper.

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files. This means that the vast majority of the BBC's...

Red meat has been linked to all sorts of adverse health outcomes. But a new study shows that the associations are weak or nonexistent.

Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.

In one of the most bizarre spectacles in agriculture history, nicotine-addicted Judas goats once led sheep to slaughter down livestock’s version of the green mile. The aptly named Judas goats, rewarded with a single cigarette for every herd of sheep deceitfully…