Arnd Bergmann started his Open Source Summit Europe 2025 talk with a clear statement of positio [...]

MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018
Instructor: Patrick Winston
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Patrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years. Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your…

A breakdown of how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates the iridescent, sparkling look of foil stickers using vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and procedural flakes.

This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's…

Amazon has struggled to recruit top AI talent. An internal document and company insiders reveal the reasons.

Richard Axe is celebrated in the bookselling trade for his vast collection of antiquarian and second-hand volumes. Since 2005, his stock has been arrayed on over a mile’s worth of shelving in a former youth hostel in the Yorkshire Dales, but now his career…

The complete Steve Ballmer interview (and transcript!) on Microsoft’s history and strategy

Frameworks for LLM Agents have been surprisingly disappointing. I want to offer some principles for building agents based on our own trial & error, and explain why some tempting ideas are actually quite bad in practice.

Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses

pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems - gargakshit/zfsbackrest

Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.

I really miss using em dashes in my writing. Ever since content creators started using ChatGPT to help (or supplement) their writing, em dashes have become indicators of AI use. Students are routinely caught with their pants down as professors flag an essay…

And 11 signs you've got it backwards

A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

iTorrent’s developer has been blocked from distributing apps on alternative iOS stores.

Archaeologists are searching for ancient coastal settlements submerged by rising sea levels over 8,500 years ago in the Bay of Aarhus, Denmark.