From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.

Microsoft’s journey with Rust reflects a commitment to building safer and more efficient software. In this closing keynote, we’ll explore how Microsoft drives change by adopting Rust across key products and platforms. From security improvements to integration…

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Examples and guides for using the VLM Run API. Contribute to vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jeff Bezos said the Washington Post's editorials will now focus on "personal liberties and free markets," with the paper's op-ed editor exiting.

How do we represent a rotation in 3 dimensions? This is a surprisingly deep question, and one we can learn a lot from. Our goal will be to “rediscover” quaternions from first principles, building them up by exploring different representations and fixing the…

Frederick Monsen's ethnographic photos of the American West

Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, Ben Laurie, Research, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Research and Alex Richardson, Silicon For decades,...

If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue that we might discover fundamental elements of intelligence that are common to all life.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who owns the Post, says the newspaper's editorial section will publish columns only "in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

Following the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping helper…

Today, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Intuitive Machines mission to land on the moon. Among other things, the mission contains a mini data center—just 1 kilogram containing a microchip and 8 terabytes of SSD storage. The idea holds promise:…

FDA panel meeting to select flu vaccine strains canceled; Paul Offit confirms

Claude Opus 4.1 Plays Pokemon!

TL;DR: We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty.