“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address. What could possibly go wrong? I am a radical optimist and detail-obsessed knowledge…

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Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...

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The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed…

How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an &#821…

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A concise text on quantum mechanics, intended for a general mathematical audience including CS, engineering, math, and physics undergrads, as well as anyone interested in a brief intro/overview of ...

Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno is introducing legislation to penalize U.S. companies that hire overseas while at the same time developing work programs stateside.

Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer ...

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Tesla's board has proposed a $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk in what would be the largest corporate pay package in history, underscoring the hold Musk has over the carmaker as it attempts to transform into an AI and robotics powerhouse.

In a paper published today in Science, we introduce Deep Loop Shaping, a novel AI method that will unlock next-generation gravitational-wave science. Deep Loop Shaping reduces noise and improves...