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What the last big wave of automation tells us about the one that's on its way

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…

Catgirls can have little a RCE, as a treat

Do our dull lives become worth watching?

War markets are a national-security threat.

CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator ...

Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to…

I’ve forgotten how to write code, or at least I think I have. Hard to be sure, I haven’t done it for a while. But then, I start to muse…

SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.

The kernel's unloved but performance-critical swapping subsystem has been undergoing multiple r [...]

Fun little vacation project for fun and zero profit.

Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions…

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A ZIP code is 5 characters. City, state, country — autofilled. It's 2026. This isn't hard.

A single file containing all known AI writing tropes. I guess you could add it to your AI system prompt to avoid these patterns. Or you could embark on the joy of independent writing.

A rough start to what would later become one of my favorite tech ads from the 80s.

I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human…