On cartography as historical argument

The decks suggested proper technique, and were a path to class mobility.

Predictions over graphs play a crucial role in various domains, including social networks and medicine. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the dominant approach for learning on graph...

The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by…

A case for abandoning web analytics

When writing a bump allocator, always bump downwards. That is, allocate fromhigh addresses, down towards lower addresses by decrementing the bumppointer. Alt...

Editor’s Note: As of September 2024, the state of iPhone repairability has changed again—this time for the better. We’re happy to report that Apple has been busily addressing the concerns we detailed…

The over-80s for the first time accounted for more than 10% of Japan’s population, according to a government report issued to mark the annual Respect for the Aged Day.

With many computer systems still down a week after the attack began, the company has no update on a return to normal operations.

From Pitfall II to the Channel F to the NES cartridge port, a spectre has lurked in the background of Nicole Express: the spectre of the Atari 2600. The best...

Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law

Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. Alternatives based on the process behind the distribution of charged particles may yield even better results.

The Justice Department looks for signs of a monopoly.

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Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.

Google’s cross-examination of Google ad executive Jerry Dischler has focused on the ways Google tries to bring value to both users and advertisers in its search ads.

At one point Dischler said: “We believe it is actually a worse user experience to not have…