California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.

This is the first of a planned five-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1, A2) looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquit…

The rival to Twitter saw explosive growth but users have since drifted away, Meta boss acknowledges.

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The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the

Posting for the whole Steering Council, on the subject of @colesbury’s PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython). Thank you, everyone, for responding to the poll on the no-GIL proposal. It’s clear that the overall sentiment is positive…

July 20, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) On the evening of July 19th, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Sky watchers from southern California to Arizona wit…

Open-source, accessible React UI components styled with Tailwind CSS to build charts and dashboards.

Chie is a cross-platform desktop app for LLMs like ChatGPT, it has following advantages over other similar apps:
Open source and hackable. Support extensions. Use native UI (GTK on Linux, Cocoa on macOS, Win32 on Windows). Visit GitHub for source code, and…

In a rare price hike, AWS will be charging for IPv4 addresses. The change brings them in line with other cloud providers and encourages good internet hygiene.

The warehouse was also home to medical devices developed onsite, like covid-19 and pregnancy tests, and hundreds of lab mice—some of which were found dead.

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With a growing population in the Pacific Northwest, the call for better public transportation heightens. This March, Washington’s State Legislature signed off on a transportation milestone, allocating $150 million to a high-speed connection between Oregon…