In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later…

In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.

Rare book collecting is booming. Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past.

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs.
It has 128 GB of shared memory and comes with up to 6,144 state-of-the-art CUDA cores.

CPU wise, the chip has 10 performance cores and 10 efficiency cores. The performance cores are based on the…

Between April 1 and May 15, 2026, a group of 49 mathematicians compiled a dataset of research-level mathematics questions with known answers. Most of the work was done during the 3-day workshop...

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork() [...]

A nifty Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window, wiring together the wslc container API, WinUI Reactor, Azure Linux 4.0, .NET 10, with a pinch of nostalgia.

I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics …

When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of…

We would like to take a moment to talk about the experimental just-in-time compiler in CPython, and the path we think it should take from here. Over the past several years, several core developers and contributors have been building a JIT compiler in the…

The shifting timeline is a setback for Meta’s ability to monetize its massive investments in building frontier AI models.