The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks.

The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering.

As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two ...

Sam Bankman-Fried is clearly angling for a pardon from Trump.

Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University have developed an approach to use artificial intelligence for reading the ancient tablets.

Over the last few months, I have built and launched a free semantic search tool for GitHub called SemHub. In this blog post, I share what I’ve learned and why I’ve failed, so that other builders can learn from my experience. This blog post runs long and I…

Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. But many times you do
not need Redis. Here are 3 examples from my last 3 jobs.

With most targeted changes not mammoth-specific, the focus is on gene editing.

You can find them in many household appliances, building technology, and countless pipe and hydraulic lines: small, cylindrical parts manufactured through deep drawing processes. The material is under ...

Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a

Google will have to break up its business and sell Chrome, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a court said it illegally abused it monopoly on search.

San Francisco’s most visible landmark helps keep the Bay Area informed, in touch, and secure around the clock. Explore Sutro Tower is your chance to dive deeper into the history, workings, and wonder of this one-of-a-kind facility and see the tower in a whole…

IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers - GitHub - Interactive-Echoes/IEMidi: IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers

Deploy your projects from local to production (self-hosted). - bypirob/airo

LLM-based coding-assistance tools have been out for ~2 years now. Many developers have been reporting that this is dramatically increasing their prod…

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