(This is the first of a two-part series.  The second part can be found here.) I used to drink more caffeine than you do. That is almost certainly true.  From my college days (1985ff) through the en…

A new automated system will rely on biometrics to verify passengers who show up without a Real ID or passport.

In the coming decade, artificially intelligent agents with the ability to plan and execute complex tasks over long time horizons with little direct oversight from humans may be deployed across the...

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.

Bibliography for directory <code>math/humor</code>, most recent first: 4 <a class='icon-not' href='/doc/math/humor/index#see-alsos'>related tags</a>, 200 <a class='icon-not' href='/doc/math/humor/index#links'>annotations</a>, & 66 <a class='icon-not' hre…

Google has resumed work on JPEG XL support in Chromium after removing it three years ago. A developer says the current version is feature complete and under review.

a few days after , we found the love letters, hidden away among his things. one of them said,

my parents were not a love match. at 27 and 26, they were e...

🚀 Automatically detect and migrate GitHub Actions workflows to `ubuntu-slim` for cost-efficient CI - fchimpan/gh-slimify

Today we’re introducing the proposal for the MCP Apps Extension (SEP-1865) to standardize support for interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.
This extension addresses one of the most requested features from the MCP community and builds…

AI-powered wizard for generating comprehensive technical specs and development plans.

Define the Collatz map Col on the natural numbers by setting Col(n) to equal 3n+1 when n is odd and n/2 when n is even. The notorious Collatz conjecture asserts that all orbits of this map eventually attain the value 1. This remains open, even if one is willing…

by Ian Wright // Silicon Valley's startup culture believes it's changing the world for the better. But in reality its culture is deeply unethical since it institutionalises theft on a global scale.

_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...

A visit to Kent reveals more people struggling with rising food bills and turning to food banks already suffering higher demand and fewer donations

In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:

Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

posted by Matthew Flatt, Ryan Culpepper, Robby Findler, Gustavo Massaccesi, and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt With the version 9.0 release, Racket includes support for shared-memory threads that can take advantage of multicore hardware and operating-systems thread...

: Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize