A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots.

Aeschylus is credited first for the time-worn aphorism that in war, truth is the first casualty. But in the next major conflict, truth could find itself joined by virtually all information.  As a society at war, we face becoming blind, deaf and dumb once…

The U.S. secretary of state accused Poland's foreign minister of "making things up" and suggested he was ungrateful after saying Ukraine may need an alternative to Starlink.

Bispecific antibodies incorporating a cross-reactive NTD-specific antibody are resilient to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

Nato countries could be forced to plan manoeuvres without US as Trump continues pivot away from bloc

This man had a passion for his work. I admire that a lot.

One of the most impressive games of the 80s was Sublogic’s Flight Simulator.

Learn how Linux/FFmpeg C partial codebase is organized to be extensible and act as if it were meant to have “polymorphism”. Specifically, we’re going to briefly explore how Linux …

The major investor in OpenAI has been looking to cut ties as the two companies start looking more like competitors.

Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered underneath the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.

This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading. …

It is said that life begins at the age of 40 — I hope it is true … After 23 years of working in IT and spending the last 12 years in a…

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A deep dive into the performance of Python 3.14's tail-call interpreter: How the performance results were confounded by an LLVM regression, the surprising complexity of compiling interpreter loops, and some reflections on performance work, software engineering…

I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century".

The "compressed 21st century" comes from Dario's "Machine of Loving Grace" and if you haven’t…

In beginning the NVIDIA Blackwell Linux testing with the GeForce RTX 5090 compute performance, besides all the CUDA/OpenCL/OptiX benchmarks delivered last week a number of readers asked about AI performance and in particular the Llama.cpp performance with…

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) and the graph partitioning problem (GPP) are two important combinatorial optimization problems with many applications. Due to the NP-hardness of these...