A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual…

Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required... for a handful of supported languages)

You’ve probably never seen the QR code printed on your iPhone screen because it’s so microscopic that most people have...

Since my last article regarding the successful harnessing of tidal power to generate electricity, I have been researching what progress Portugal has made towards renewable energy production, and it’s impressive. Some authorities claim that this has now risen…

As a Walled Culture explained back in 2021, open access (OA) to published academic research comes in two main varieties. “Gold” open access papers are freely available to the pu…

Workers who sign training repayment agreements can owe their employers thousands of dollars if they leave their jobs early. Regulators are starting to crack down on the practice.

A key concept for a processor is the management of "state", information that persists over time. Much of a computer is built from logic gate...

Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of consciousness called panpsychism

Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?

Most demographers now predict that humanity will plateau, not drastically decline.

A Kubernetes node autoscaler for Proxmox. Contribute to jedrw/kproximate development by creating an account on GitHub.

AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.

Theoretical Benefits / Plans:

Typed assembler-like language.
Allows for a CPS transformation.
Can replace the existing C backend by a new C backend.
Can replace the VM.
Can do more effective &...

There’s a blog post that floats around the Internet about the metaphor of the broken stair.

As technology continues to offer new capabilities, the old adage that “there is always a better way” is becoming increasingly true, and sometimes it just requires a multi-disciplinary approach to a problem to transform the effectiveness of the solution. Humanitaria’s…