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The impact of the largest stocks on the market has lessened and that could be good news for investors.

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There has been a significant rise in new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Gauteng Province in the last four weeks which has been attributed to the new Omicron variant announced on 24 November 2021. The first cases of Omicron were detected in the Tshwane District…

Tenisha Tate-Austin and Paul Austin say they were lowballed when trying to refinance...

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On Hubris and Humility: when "write your own OS" isn't the worst idea

Hubris is a small open-source operating system for deeply-embedded computer
systems, such as our server's replacement for the Baseboard Management
Controller. Because our BMC replacement…

Since at least 2017, a mysterious threat actor has run thousands of malicious servers in entry, middle, and exit positions of the Tor network in what a security researcher has described as an attempt to deanonymize Tor users.

How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay.

Python class that generates pixel art from images. Contribute to sedthh/pyxelate development by creating an account on GitHub.

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°. Over a month, the structure was moved 15 inch/hr, all while 600 employees still worked there. There was no interruption to gas, heat, electricity, water, sewage, or the telephone service they provided. No…

I recently published a blog post on why Undefined Behavior is actually not a bad idea. Coincidentally, this is just a few weeks after the publication of this paper by Victor Yodaiken which ...

New playground; file IO via handles, source from any origin; page controls.

Problem: Show that all horses are of the same color.
“Solution”: We will show, by induction, that for any set of $ n$ horses, every horse in that set has the same color. Suppose $ n=1$, this is obviously true. Now suppose for all sets of $ n$ horses, every…

As a defender of free speech, I sometimes feel like a man falling through a collapsing building. Just when you think you’ve finally reached rock bottom, the floor gives way again. That was my sensation last week when I read about the disciplinary investigation…

Traditional skilifts cannot turn in all four directions due to the way they are built. And yet there is one to defeat this limitation with a surprisingly simple invention. Discover the Hohstock skilift, built in 1982 and the very last of its kind located…

What do modern cloud workloads look like? And what does that have to do with new chip designs? I found these gems in Peter DeSantis's ReInve...