Anti-cheat engines are now requiring users to have Secure Boot and a fTPM enabled in order to play online multiplayer games. Will this decrease the amount of cheating, or is it a futile attempt at curbing an ever-growing problem?

Didactic Python Chess Engine that implements: Negamax, PeSTO’s Evaluation, Null Move, Quiescence Search, Lazy SMP. - luccabb/moonfish

Learn why immutable objects reduce bugs, when to avoid them, and how to write cleaner OOP code with immutability by default.

Let’s be honest, writing documentation is usually not the funniest part of our developer job. In this article I will try to go through…

Learn how common MCP setups in AI agents create silent, high-risk exploits. Pynt’s research shares real-world cases and ways to reduce MCP security risks.

This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance

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DeepSeek V3.1's new version is officially launched. With a 128k context length, its programming capabilities surpass Claude 4 Opus, and it costs as low as $1.

Brian Kernighan talks about the history of UNIX and promotes his 2019 book.

A database engineer at QuestDB discovers that an AI-suggested optimization for array shape calculation in their Parquet reader actually made the code slower, and achieves a 5x average speedup by applying a few simple optimizations.

For decades, computer scientists believed that Dijkstra’s algorithm was as good as it gets for finding the shortest path in a network. From…

Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa Mahdawi

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond C...

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After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI. 

The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.

🚨TL;DR: If you are a SurrealDB user running any SurrealDB instance backed by the RocksDB or SurrealKV storage backends you MUST EXPLICITLY set SURREAL_SYNC_DATA=true in your environment variables otherwise your instance is NOT crash safe and can very easily…