Michael McGrath awaits results of secret shopper investigation amid crackdown on Chinese retail platforms

Peep Show, a British tv series running from 2003 to 2015, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of miserable, co-dependent roommates living in Croydon, London, is the most realistic por…

Robots grow bigger, faster, and more capable by absorbing and integrating material in their environment.

connmap is an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time - h2337/connmap

This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from…

New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed ...

Stress testing enterprise AI systems to find failure modes.

It was called the J-Damper, a mysterious device at the heart of the biggest spy scandal in Formula 1 history. For years, its true nature was a closely guarded secret, giving one team a massive advantage while rival engineers with the stolen plans were left…

By default, log based on fixed time intervals rather than number of messages.

My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.

Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs : a venerable (1983?), fast, small Emacs clone that was originally written for 2.8BSD on PDP-11. Some of us have been using and contributing to it since 198...

Julie Inman Grant targets YouTube as Australia moves to impose digital ID rules.

I'm working on, from what I can tell, the most sophisticated open-source io_uring runtime and every time I try to shill it, developers will simply scoff at io_uring, saying, "isn't io_...

Have you wondered what a medieval king did on a typical day? Thanks to Christine de Pizan, we have an account of what daily life was like for King Charles V of France.

ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units. Contribute to revk/ESP32-Faikout development by creating an account on GitHub.

This article is a quick how-to guide for using the WMMA intrinsics with our new AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture GPUs.

: AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

SIOF (Scheme In One File) is a minimal interpreter for R7RS Scheme - false-schemers/siof

Many engineers have a strained relationship with Bash. I love it though, but I’m very aware of it’s limitations when it comes to error handling and data structures (or lack thereof).
As a result of these limitations I often see Bash scripts written very defensively…