A dedicated fan is suing Ubisoft over the shutting down of a beloved game.

Roadmap 2024 and new logo

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

Create a bootable, working Pokémon game by recording it crash multiple times.

However, among women in their early 20s who have benefitted from the HPV vaccine, cervical cancer incidence plummeted by 65% from 2012 to 2019.

As we all know, sugar is sweet and so are the $30B in yearly revenue from the artificial sweetener industry. …

Building the Inngest queue - Part I

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is reviewing more than 50 papers for research misconduct, including work of the hospital’s CEO.

An adorable set of release notes

Aditya Verma sent a Snapchat message in July 2022 saying he was about to "blow up" a plane.

"I'm a good flyer, but my partner was not loving the information I was telling her and starting to panic," British traveler Phil Hardy said of the moment he spotted the missing fixings.

AST SpaceMobile gets $206.5 million and is partnering with Google and AT&T.

Some time ago, during a code review, I had a discussion with a colleague of mine about preferring dict() over {} in new Python code. They argued that dict() is more readable — and expresses intent more clearly — therefore should be preferred. I wasn’t convinced…

This article exposes the unfair reality of spare part prices. To make repair affordable, we need reasonable prices for original parts, clear acceptance for the use of compatible parts (third party, used or 3D-printed) and a solid ban on parts pairing.

With desktop and Android version 1.64 in a couple of months, Brave will sunset Strict fingerprinting protection mode.

Market simulator video game mechanics reveal the core of human soul.

Great interview of Linus Torvalds on many topics (Rust, git, etc.) and also on LLM and programming tasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88 (starting at 20:30). Here is the transcript (using yt-dlp and OpenAI Whisper):