If you paint a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog in your living room, you are technically creating an unauthorized derivative work—but in practice, no one cares. Private, noncommercial creation has always lived in a space where copyright law exists on paper but…

Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

For when your work is both improvised and super-sized.

Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building…

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster.

We have optimized our inference stack for all API customers.

Same model. Same weights. Lower latency.

A project to circumnavigate
the globe using an autonomous airship. Design, trajectory and budget for
maximum air endurance. Feasibility study, thought experiment and
daydreaming all in one.

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers

The rise and fall of the Great Convergence

Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch analysis, headless mode, and Docker deployment for AI-powered reverse engineering - bethington/ghidra-mcp

30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.

Creative problem solving is following a single very stupid line of brute force logic.

Enabled fp8 training for +4.3% improvement to "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours now. Also worth noting that if you use 8XH100 spot instance prices, this GPT-2 repro really only costs ~$20. So this is exciting -

GPT-2 (7 years ago): too dangerous to release.…

An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files . In short, many file systems allow you to create a lo...

A $4 Raspberry Pi Pico can help you track a DIY balloon around the world.

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.