Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.

We analyze the knowledge acquired by AlphaZero, a neural network engine that learns
chess solely by playing against itself yet becomes capable of o...

I used Ghidra twice, so that means I'm officially an expert in reverse engineering

The traditional technique called edo-kiriko is primarily used for drinking glasses, but one company has used it to make watch dials, too.

Palm Cove (also commonly known as Cannon Lake) is Intel’s 10 nm die shrink of the Skylake core. In Intel’s “Tick Tock” strategy of alternating major microarchitecture change…

Eskom has run out of cash to buy diesel and the company says it will not overspend as in the past. This means extreme load shedding is on the cards.

Berkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox. It is a complicating factor arising in…

I’ve been using Apache Kafka for about a year now and I’ve wanted a desktop client from the beginning. I couldn’t find one I liked – the best I’ve found is Confluent’s Cloud UI, but that’s neither a desktop app, nor is it a great experience1 – so, a couple…

From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software. Thank you to everyone who used our product, and thank you to our team members and investors who…

Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…

Yep. It's a video!

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The observability problem - Why is the system exhibiting this behaviour?

Small backyard houses get a lot of attention as a solution to the housing crisis, but it’s a different idea in theory than it is when you try to put it into practice.

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the…

indigenous man living alone in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

Le ministère de l'Éducation nationale confirme ne pas vouloir des offres de Microsoft Office 365 et de Google Workspace dans les écoles.

Publish your weird ideas in public. You never know who’s listening.

Even its inventors didn’t fully understand the point-contact transistor