In which you probably wonder, but ...why?

Maya thought she left caste-based discrimination behind when she came to the U.S. from India to pursue her studies. She was shocked to discover she was wrong, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

One expert says most Americans likely don't realize how many additives they're eating that European regulators shun — and it's "almost certainly" making them sick.

OpenAI's Status Page - Outage on all models.

ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going.

In 17th-century Germany, a "schandmaske" was the prescribed punishment for social transgression.

Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust

You can program a smart mirror to show you pretty much anything you want. Our Maker in Residence has created a tutorial to help you make one.

How My Mindfulness Practice Lead Me To Meltdown

I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason never caught on elsewhere.…

Note: You can also listen to this post thanks to an AI I trained with my voice

Most of you have by now heard of ChatGPT already, but if you haven't, first I'm happy to hear you're out of your coma, and second, it's what's called a "generative artificial…

Every January 1st, an army of open source developers rushes out to update their copyright attributions in licenses and documentation. Why? Because we’ve always done it that way.

Experiments in Permissionless Entrepreneurship

What is a LAN? What is a network segment? How are L1, L2, and L3 segments related? What does it take to send an IP packet from one host to another? What is the difference between LAN, VLAN, and VXLAN?

As part of the tracing updates sent in for Linux 6.3 is the introduction of the new 'hwnoise' tool within the kernel source tree for monitoring and quantifying hardware noise.

The pharaoh left behind a monumental list of accomplishments. But his reluctance to pass the baton ultimately led to his dynasty’s collapse.

The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 3

Police said they had found 500 illegal surveillance cameras installed by Albanian gangsters to keep an eye on their movements.