I often like to cover oddities here; details of computers and arcade systems people may not have heard of, that didn’t sell well but had unique or interestin...

The Elizabeth line is entering the final phases of testing and software upgrades ahead of opening the line to the public, TfL's Commissioner, Andy Byford has confirmed.

TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack. First time I feel attacked by AI in the brain.

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

QuickTime ruled from 1991-2019, and was bigger than Apple itself. But can you name what replaced it, and whether it works as well?

More pumping. More now.

Links 'n' stuff:
The original video (explaining how they work)
https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto
"Part 2" which is now, I guess, more simply about ground-source heat pumps and some other stuff
https://youtu.be/7zrx-b2sLUs

Technology Connextras…

The SHA-256 Project, developed for NYU Tandon's Applied Cryptography course - oconnor663/sha256_project

A review of correlations between human performance on physical and mental tasks, plus a description of how factor analysis is like a cigar

Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.

In the online era, shaming is a national pastime, and yet shameless conduct persists. Should we double down?

Answer (1 of 13): More like a weird coding…habit? I don’t even know how to describe it. It boggles my mind to this day.

When I was 18 years old at my first internship I worked with a senior developer on a number of projects. It was a small firm, so we did…

fbs is an Electron alternative that lets you release GUIs with Python and Qt in minutes.

TIL: Tesla's charging ports use a standard wireless message to open up on 315MHz... Which can be replyed! :D

Okta has admitted that it made a mistake delaying the disclosure of hack from the Lapsus$ data extortion group that took place in January. Additionally, the company has provided a detailed timeline of the incident and its investigation activities.