Imminent termination of the <em>RV Nathaniel B. Palmer</em> shocks polar scientists

Something fundamental has shifted in how power works, and most of our institutions haven't noticed. We're living through what might be called "leverage arbitrage divergence"—a growing gap between...

EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag

As Denmark began its EU Presidency on July 1, 2025, the Chat Control proposal came back to the lawmakers' table on the very first day.

It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.

I've written before about my 1976 KIM-1 and code I wrote for a similar one long ago. But I hadn't done much with the KIM-1 and strongly be...

After a doping scandal upended the sport, professional cycling is pursuing dual challenges of keeping cycling honest and convincing a skeptical audience it is.

The investigation under the Digital Services Act into the Chinese e-commerce platform began in October 2024.

UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we…

Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch

Square tiles used in graphic design

Discover movies through an interactive visualization. Explore tens of thousands of films in a unique force-directed voronoi diagram interface.

GRPO training code which scales to 32xH100s for long horizon terminal/coding tasks. Base agent is now the top Qwen3 agent on Stanford's TerminalBench leaderboard. - Danau5tin/terminal-bench-rl

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online.

We successfully exploited two discontinued network devices at DistrictCon’s inaugural Junkyard competition in February, winning runner-up for Most Innovative Exploitation Technique. Our exploit chains demonstrate why end-of-life hardware poses persistent…

Amazon’s recent announcement of their spec-driven AI tool, Kiro, inspired me to write a blog post on a completely unrelated topic: formal specifications. In particular, I wanted to write abou…

Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk in an $85 billion deal, to create the nation's first coast-to-coast freight rail operator.