A few photos of the 1:12 scale 1983 WarGames WOPR computer. This was a commission for a private collector.

What is your favorite fictional computer? 💾

Centuries-old books, manuscripts and printing plates often contain invisible etchings, mysterious letters – and even doodles.

A 90-minute speech about how to improve education using video games -- how to actually do it, in contrast to what is currently being tried. Followed by a Q&A session.

A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI - Nutlope/aicommits

Do you know that DeepMind has actually open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo & AlphaZero?

It’s hidden in an unassuming repo called “mctx”: https://t.co/GpNtwH9BxA

It provides JAX-native Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) that runs on batches of inputs, in parallel…

A rule-based data query language that thinks differently

A cheap USB stick and the marketing around it caused disappointment, more at 11.

Suspend-On-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management - mrmekon/circadian

Swiss citizens will get the chance to try to ensure their economy never becomes cashless, a pressure group said, after collecting enough signatures by Monday to trigger a popular vote on the issue.

"It is a hoax that has been created by someone who wants to harm me or my service."

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley teaching Python to thousands of students, I got asked all kinds of questions that got me digging deep...

Cleanup is moving quickly after a train carrying toxic materials derailed in Ohio 11 days ago, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said on Tuesday, while residents and observers questioned the health impacts of pollution that spilled into the Ohio River.

What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. who transformed the Japanese automaker into a leading global brand, di

Corporate Capture at the Longest Standing US Law School…

Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog posting here about Fedora having frame pointers (LWN backgrounder, HN thread). I made some mistakes in that blog posting and retracted it, but I wasn’t wr…