A new proposed California ballot initiative seeks to make it illegal for insurers to delay or deny doctor-recommended procedures and medications.

In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists,…

$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.

A cautionary tale about the competitive pressures of scientific research, and how they alter the course of history.

The vast difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

A major problem plaguing modern compilers is that they have no concept of time.
When run on a codebase, a compiler treats it as if it had been in the exact...

South Carolina Marine Col. Charles Del Pizzo ejected from a failing F-35B stealth fighter jet in 2023, landing in a North Charleston yard near the CHS Airport.

Xfinity XB3 hardware mod: Disable WiFi and save 2 watts - xb3_disable_wifi.md

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.

The company attributed its red ink to its protracted battle with Warner Bros. over the release of "The Matrix Resurrections" and a push into independent production. Village Roadshow said a potential sale last year collapsed because of uncertainty surrounding…

A framework + installer to (very) quickly install Windows 98 on anything from a 486 up to a modern system - oerg866/win98-quickinstall

Wordle meets Family Feud. Guess the top responses to today’s survey question - which real players answered yesterday!

The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser

The most important security benefit of software memory safety is easy to state: for C and C++ software, attackers can exploit most bugs and vulnerabilities to gain full, unfettered control of...

For more background on safety and security issues related to C++, including definitions of “language safety” and “software security” and similar terms, see my March 2024 essay “C++ safety, in conte…

WhatsApp MCP server. Contribute to lharries/whatsapp-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or astronomers have been measuring the universe's expansion incorrectly