Windows users sitting in the sidelines are not understanding the source of the Windows hate. But that's because the messages are not getting through. Windows is changing. In a big way. The changes are so huge that really it is evolving to a completely different…

An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools

Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series "Walker, Texas Ranger," died March 19 at 86.

CLI tool for inspecting and managing services listening on localhost ports - raskrebs/sonar

In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan…

HP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback."

Large study was in human cerebral spinal fluid and mouse models

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s…

Fixing common Java anti-patterns took an app from 1,198ms to 239ms. Eight patterns that compile fine and pass code review but silently drain CPU and balloon heap, with benchmarks and code fixes for each

Germany requires Open Document Format in its new sovereign digital framework, standardizing document use across public administrations.

The tech firm said it placed Yih-Shyan Liaw and one other employee on administrative leave.

There was plenty of uncertainty and debate about the effectiveness of a cell phone ban decreed by executive order last summer. But at least in Estacada, the policy has earned […]

Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work.

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Qwen3.5-9B scores 93.8% on 96 real security AI tests — within 4 points of GPT-5.4 — running entirely on Apple Silicon. Full benchmark results and methodology.

The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting…

BYD is already seeing a flood of new EV buyers as gas and oil prices surge amid rising tensions in...