Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.

We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Using mobile…

You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …

One beautiful Ruby API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, VertexAI, Perplexity, Mistral, GPUStack & OpenAI compatible APIs. Chat, Vision, Audio, PDF, Imag...

Unstable federal funding puts at risk the government statistics used to track the U.S. economy and population, officials and data users warn. That's before any cuts by President Trump and Congress.

Sorry, you can only get drugs when there's a drug shortage.

Metadata-Resistant Messaging

Update, 2025-04-16: I wrote a follow-up post after about a month of usage, and you can read that here.
Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting…

The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.

Revisiting the asthma and allergy paradigms has led to actions relevant to society and healthcare as a whole http://ow.ly/MBG530bPvd6

To tackle data-retrieval-based hallucinations in non-diagnostic use cases, Mayo Clinic has applied CURE reverse RAG paired with vector databases.

This means you can no longer process voice recordings locally, they will be automatically sent to Amazon's cloud

A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was

Commonly worn fitness trackers are most accurate at measuring heart rate but are less reliable at tracking the count step and energy expenditure.

Thera is a super-resolution approach that leverages neural heat fields for anti-aliased results.