Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a massive supermajority in the February 2026 elections by reading the room.

What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening…

We’re excited to share Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2), a state-of-the-art open model and efficient real-time inference engine that enables you to build and play A...

C++: The Documentary premiered today on YouTube, and it was great to be on the live chat with Bjarne and many other key folks who participated in C++’s history. I’m honored to have been…

In my predictions for 2030 I wrote that tech writers would be using specialized LLMs, running locally on powerful hardware. I see hints of this move to “local first” among engineering pundits, but we’re not there yet, in part because of how much more powerful…

Real-time up/down status heatmap for 60+ popular internet services.

Our global coalition of innovative developers promotes genuine competition and users’ freedom of choice. It’s time for Microsoft to do the same.

La Tilde publishes an unusual mix of personal finance guides and articles extolling American military efforts in Latin America.

Mercek is a desktop app for Amazon ECS. It uses your existing AWS credentials, works across all your accounts and regions, and never sends anything to a server.

Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.

A Hardware Hacking Tool with Web-Based CLI That Speaks Every Protocol - geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.”

This paper analyzes and identifies a space-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference source that has caused scores of powerful transient wide-area interference events over...

One man more than any other is associated with Singapore’s remarkable 20th-century success. Who was Lee Kuan Yew, and how did he do it?

We sought to characterize the involvement of US tobacco companies in the global food industry, where they disseminated ultra-processed and hyper-palatable foods, and the methods they used to expand globally. We reviewed and extracted data from 113 primary…

Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We...

The Commission is proposing the European Technological Sovereignty Package, marking a change in Europe's approach to its tech ecosystems.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Kind of a generative art thing, but mostly an attempt by the author to prove to herself that a she can write a short blog post without turning it into a goddamn monograph