Water is usually something you’d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials.

If you have a process ID, you can look at what files/ports a process has open, see details about how the process was started, trace it to see what work it's doing, or wait for it to complete its work. Process IDs are pretty cool!

A country that prided itself on stability has seemed to be in free-fall. Whodunnit?

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Turf wars. Protection money. Scientology. And my boss, a man who’s half-convinced he really is Santa.

The more metrics you track, the less you know.

Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain. 

Makes reverse engineering Android apps easier, automating repetitive tasks like pulling, decoding, rebuilding and patching an APK. - ax/apk.sh

Companies are already designing with RISC-V and the momentum is rapidly increasing, so this is a good time for the industry to take a closer look.

As you may recall:

• The W3C is in part hosted by MIT but MIT intends to withdraw on Dec 31.
• A new W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1.
• MIT needs to transfer assets (member dues, contracts, IP…) to the new W3C for it to operate.
• I was elected…

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Tonight's story time: the Power Macintosh that wouldn't make any sound in BeOS R5, how I figured out the problem, and how I hacked the sound...

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Google recently published a blog article and paper introducing their SIMD-accelerated sorting algorithm.

SIMD stands for single instruction, multiple data. A single instruction is used to apply ...

When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit important as it dictates whether your WebAssembly code will (not)…

My friend Zyni pointed out that someone has been getting really impressively confused and cross on reddit about empty lists, booleans and so on in Common Lisp, which led us to a discussion about what the differences between CL and Scheme really are here.…

As you may recall:
• MIT partly hosts W3C, but withdraws Dec 31
• A W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1
• MIT has assets (dues, contracts, IP…) to transfer to new W3C
• I was elected to the W3C Board & in the negotiations

Two weeks from cutover it's…