Finally got it working after making some adjustments on the internal pots. This is my Star Prentice vintage acoustic coupler modem that is connected to my AppleII. It can run up to 300 Baud and connects via RS232. The model is 103-232. The apple 2 can interface…

Israel's voter registration database - comprising close to 6.5 million people - was exposed to the internet because of an elementary coding flaw in an election

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.

‎Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary app for Mac and iPad that makes it fun to learn and experiment with code. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Learn to Code” lessons to master the basics of coding, or experiment with a wide range of challenges…

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is an architectural paradigm where behavior is composed by reacting to events.

Animated SVGs just make sense. There are lots of articles explaining why you should be using SVG...

After about a year of development, the MATE Desktop team have finally released MATE 1.24. A big thank you to all contributors who helped to make this happen.

What's new in MATE 1.24
This release cont

1. It’s February in Las Vegas, and because I have managed to step on my glasses and break them, as I do at least once a year, I have gone to the LensCrafters at the Boulevard Mall, a faux deco artifact of midcentury Vegas that, like so many malls in America…

I sat down to talk with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin about their project to copyright every possible melody, and why that's a good thing.

The TedX talk:
https://youtu.be/sJtm0MoOgiU

VSauce "Will We Ever Run Out of New Music"
https://youtu.be/DAcjV60RnRw…

Facts are friends not food

A federal judge ordered the Navy to release documents related to the sinking of USS Thresher (SSN-593), the nation’s worst nuclear submarine disaster.

Apple’s mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world. As the service grows, it’s becoming a greater challenge to rivals like PayPal and attracting the attention of competition watchdogs.

Huawei can covertly access mobile networks via back doors meant for law enforcement, the U.S. has told allies in a bid to show the Chinese firm poses a security threat.

For students, the lessons were painful.

Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead…