We present RXTX, a new algorithm for computing the product of matrix by its transpose $XX^{t}$ for $X\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$. RXTX uses $5\%$ fewer multiplications and $5\%$ fewer operations...

From trash-diving teen to tech pioneer, James Gosling's pragmatic genius shaped three decades of Java and modern computing.

Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.

Hello! I've recently been working on the pathfinding for NPCs in my game, which is something I've been looking forward to for a while now since it's a nice chunky problem to solve. I thought I'd write...

México is home to 68 officially recognized Indigenous languages and is experiencing a remarkable Mayan language renaissance

The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.

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A short note on two related rules of thumb.

In past years, the Rustls project has been happy to receive substantial investments from the ISRG. One of our goals has been to improve performance without compromising on safety. We last posted about our performance improvements in October of 2024, and we're…

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An amendment to the Swiss surveillance law would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain user data, undermining their privacy and security framework.

Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see the appeal of deployi [...]

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Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.

Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair…