Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…

AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls

The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced that for the first time researchers have found the title and author inside of a sealed scroll from Herculaneum.

Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most of us are so used to accepting the common interfaces that…

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based rewards. Recent...

Facing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses.

Hi folks! A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling. I'm super…

A pause to take stock: realising that attention heads are simpler than I thought explained why we do the calculations we do.

Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world

An explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques.

Real-time deduplication and temporal joins for streaming data - glassflow/clickhouse-etl

A lightweight, native Windows Todo application built with pure C and the Win32 API. Just 60 KB - Efeckc17/simple-todo-c

Over a year after claiming that its AI chatbot could do the work of 700 representatives, Klarna is turning back to people to help with customer service work.

: Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far

No one has it easy, but some companies are doing a whole lot better than others.

Companies with shortages of skilled workers look to shop class to recruit future hires; “like I’m an athlete getting all this attention from all these pro teams.”

Featuring four new localities, the updated report cards show past and projected rates of sea level rise and acceleration for 36 U.S. coastal communities in a new, interactive dashboard.