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Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny, powerful 'Digital Library of Alexandria' that can be set up by any school, medical clinic or community worldwide.

Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.

Writing code is easy; getting it right is hard.

The estimated total rose by 25 percent over the last two years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Intelligent Speed Assist can prevent a car from exceeding the speed limit. Republicans in Virginia just passed a law to make it a punishment for repeated traffic violations—and other states may soon follow suit.

AI computers and GPU benchmarking

On the afternoon of April 14th, a hacker using a UK IP address exploited an out-of-date software package on one of 4chan's servers, via a bogus PDF upload. With this entry point, they were eventually...

Whether hiding the truth, gagging critics, silencing rivals, or simply telling tales, takedown notices sent by the public put us all at risk.

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Bring back FPU emulation for i486SX CPU on NetBSD. Contribute to mezantrop/i486SX_soft_FPU development by creating an account on GitHub.

A breakdown of how an AI model attempts to solve a complex chess puzzle, showcasing its human-like reasoning, problem-solving attempts, and eventual reliance on external information.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today released new records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). These records were transferred to the National Archives from the

A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that disrupts how cells in the brain turn genes on and off.

Breakthrough material could transform aerospace, defense and industrial applications.

In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock…