An article on why IRC is still the only chat protocol worth using, and a positive look at the surprisingly autistic-friendly Microsoft Comic Chat IRC client.

Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak. Effect sizes shrink in meta-analyses.

Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus

Improving API function calls using inline assembly

Some scientists fear the ‘shocking’ shift is the beginning of a global heating-linked collapse of the ice that could have alarming knock-on effects

The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults.

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers.

Ministers’ meeting focused on military cooperation and agreed to increase ‘tempo’ of US nuclear-powered submarine visits to Australia as part of Aukus pact

A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.

Article about the philosophy of custom made computers without displays, usually known as decks.

On portable computers.

New rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists

Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?

noyb filed a complaint against Ryanair. When booking through an online travel agent, the airline pushes some customers to go through an invasive facial recognition process

Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have uncovered a new vulnerability that causes aligned language models like ChatGPT to generate objectionable behaviors at a high success rate.

Text-Generation-Inference, aka TGI, is a project we started earlier this year to power optimized inference of Large Language Models, as an internal tool to power LLM inference on the Hugging Face I...