Random notes from my unsuccessful attempt to get this weblog onto Mastodon.

Twitch, an Amazon-owned livestreaming service, announced Wednesday it is laying off 500 employees.

Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but…

After years of delays, victims of one of the U.K.’s worst miscarriages of justice are finally being exonerated — thanks to a TV drama.

Elixir is a dynamically-typed functional language running on the Erlang Virtual Machine, designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Its characteristics have earned it a surging adoption by hundreds of industrial actors and tens of thousands…

Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities…

Not long ago I was part of a discussion about using mechanical things to demonstrate computing concepts (such as building a learning Tic-Tac-Toe game out of matchboxes). This got my head spinning on …

There's no need for an AI device

Once you grok Emacs, you realize that it's a thermonuclear toaster that can also serve as the engine for... well, just about anything you want to do with text. When you think about how much your compu

Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There's little they can do to rein in the rip-offs.

Mike Hopkins, who oversees those units, sent a note to staffers informing them of the job cuts.

The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.

Meetup will soon be welcomed into the Bending Spoons portfolio of digital technology products. In this post, the Bending Spoons CEO, Luca Ferrari, discusses the acquisition.

Researchers are trying to figure out what is making more young adults sick, and how to identify those at high risk.

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