Cats have attained evolutionary perfection

Hunting spurious illegal instructions where there were none on AMD Ryzen 7950x for months compiling OpenSource packages with GCC (for https://t2sde.org), I finally found this regular user-land code causing some pseudo random speculative execution state corruption…

Stephen Fry spoke at the CogX Festival in London last week. During that talk, he played a video clip of a WOII documentary narrated by his voice.

Ferrocene enables Rust to be a first-class language for mission-critical- and functional-safety systems at the highest security levels.

The much-anticipated 20 Year Needs Assessment was released 2.5 days ago. It’s embarrassingly bad, and the reason is that the MTA can’t build, and is run by people who even by Northeaste…

See the top US observatories on this unique road trip across the country, from California to Massachusetts via Arizona and New Mexico.

Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.

The party is over, thanks for coming, and don't forget your belongings

The Gulf Stream transport of water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades, with 99% certainty that this weakening is more than expected from random chance, according to ...

The Procrastination Equation by Dr.

Render scaled its Knative infrastructure to handle 100k+ web apps, optimizing Kubernetes for free-tier services and reducing CPU usage to improve network performance.

As many of you will know from personal experience, there is a longstanding issue with VoiceOver on Mac where Safari may become unresponsive with VoiceOver repeatedly announcing the message “Safari not responding.” When this issue occurs, the user's Mac may…

The exercise of writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

A version of Flappy Bird that runs entirely inside MacOS Finder. It runs at 4 frames a second! That's a lot of frames!!

I recently watched GOTO conferences' talk Calling Functions Across Languages by Richard Feldman. I’m afraid I have to disagree with using the term 'language' in this context. It’s a no-brainer to call Java from Kotlin or Scala or to call Java from Kotlin.…

Community Gardens That You Tend To Together

We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now

The affordability crisis is starting to trump job prospects for new graduates, experts say, which could hinder Toronto’s economic development.