The discovery and application of piezoelectric crystals such as quartz, lithium niobate, and lithium tantalate have not only profoundly influenced the direction of modern scientific and technological progress but also demonstrated the great potential of materials…

A new avenue for identifying greedy, badly-behaved bots

A brief trip into the depths of Anthropic's API

Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to…

Piracy apps installed on Fire TV devices via sideloading will be rendered unusable based on a blacklist from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.

Ubuntu prides itself on being among the most compatible Linux distributions. Compatibility is often a conscious trade-off against bleeding-edge performance. In Ubuntu 25.10, we have added support for packages that target specific silicon variants, meaning…

Corporate gambling is economic coercion, a way to shift tax burdens away from the wealthy to the poor. It's been here since the 1970s, and now it's corrupting sports and young men. Abolish it.

I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 as my portable computer for the last half a year and wanted to share a few short impressions. As always, I am not a professional laptop reviewer, so in this article you won’t find benchmarks, just subjective thoughts!

A fast, accurate and multilingual fuzzy search library for the frontend. - m31coding/fuzzy-search

If a pilot uses their ejector seat during flight, what is the autopilot programmed to do?
As a developer myself, I'd want to build in a way for the plane to try and save itself if possible (to save...

Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect

Woman using a Macey vertical filing cabinet (detail, 1903). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.

Tata Motors gave away the keys to their infrastructure and customer data on their public websites.

I gave a talk at the 2025 Tracing Summit last month titled “Perfetto: The Swiss Army Knife of Linux Client/Embedded Tracing”. My goal in this talk was to show how Linux kernel, systems and embedded developers can use Perfetto when debugging and root-causing…