This blog post describes how electronic passports work, the threats within their threat model, and how they protect against those threats using cryptography. It also discusses the implications of using electronic passports for novel applications, such as…

Michael Hudson-Doyle, a member of Ubuntu's Foundations team, has announced the introduction of [...]

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the structure of the brain, offers advantages in parallel processing, memory storage, and energy efficiency. However, current semiconductor-based neuromorphic chips require rare-earth materials and costly fabrication processes…

European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.

The discovery and application of piezoelectric crystals such as quartz, lithium niobate, and lithium tantalate have not only profoundly influenced the direction of modern scientific and technological progress but also demonstrated the great potential of materials…

A new avenue for identifying greedy, badly-behaved bots

A brief trip into the depths of Anthropic's API

Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to…

Ubuntu prides itself on being among the most compatible Linux distributions. Compatibility is often a conscious trade-off against bleeding-edge performance. In Ubuntu 25.10, we have added support for packages that target specific silicon variants, meaning…

Corporate gambling is economic coercion, a way to shift tax burdens away from the wealthy to the poor. It's been here since the 1970s, and now it's corrupting sports and young men. Abolish it.

I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 as my portable computer for the last half a year and wanted to share a few short impressions. As always, I am not a professional laptop reviewer, so in this article you won’t find benchmarks, just subjective thoughts!

A fast, accurate and multilingual fuzzy search library for the frontend. - m31coding/fuzzy-search

If a pilot uses their ejector seat during flight, what is the autopilot programmed to do?
As a developer myself, I'd want to build in a way for the plane to try and save itself if possible (to save...

Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect