In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour. To put that into context, in all of 2023, we received 360k reports.

We’re triaging this large queue so the most harmful…

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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from…

I started learning Rust about 3 or 4 years ago. I am now knee-deep in several very complex Rust projects that keep slamming into the limitations of the Rust compiler. One of the most common and obnoxious problems is hitting a situation the borrow-checker…

Counterintuitively, impact brought benefits too by providing microorganisms with iron and phosphorus

A beginner's guide to navigating with sound.

James Gleick's Chaos: The Software. Contribute to rudyrucker/chaos development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials str…

A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple…

From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.

There’s a surprise twist in the battle to control genome editing.

Mahatma Gandhi's letter to Adolf Hitler on December 24, 1940

Hundreds of employees criticized Amazon’s leadership for making a gut decision rather than a data-driven one.

When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world order. How it happened is still debated.

TL;DR — We are excited to announce voyage-multimodal-3, a new state-of-the-art for multimodal embeddings and a big step forward towards seamless RAG and semantic search for documents rich with both…

Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment.

Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets . Let’s geek out.