In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during…

Why birth rates are collapsing — and why it’s not about selfishness, but survival.

The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes.

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light.

It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.

Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.

A NASA team found signs of the remnants of Camp Century, which shows the extent of Washington’s longtime involvement in the Arctic island.

CI is chaotic, bursty, spiky, and short-lived. That chaos is a nightmare unless you’re built for it. Blacksmith’s serverless CI cloud thrives on unpredictability: more customers = more noise = smoother utilization = lower costs for everyone. Multitenancy…

Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.

New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.

A story from 16 years ago - trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows). - trycua/cua

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

These unworldly photos of Russia’s industrial waste sites capture landscapes that appear stunning but hide a toxic reality beneath their surreal beauty.

The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?