Unions across Europe are calling on governments to introduce legislation to safeguard workers from rising temperatures, after western Europe recorded its hottest June on record.

A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive

The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming.
It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight.
If the open source…

We are open-sourcing garnix and shutting down the service.

The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed

TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer science.

Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new way…

One idea explains the whole mini PC category: unified memory lets a $2,000 box hold a 70B model no consumer GPU can fit, then decode it slowly. The roofline math, the prompt-processing catch, the NPU red herring, and the owner-measured speeds.

After 27 years of writing code, I have stopped spending time on a long list of small but painful engineering tasks. AI agents now handle commit messages, pull request descriptions, code comments, naming conventions, Git hygiene, issue tracking, and release…

Unboxing the Future of Local AI.

Explore 10,584 wars and 427 empires across 5,000 years on an interactive world map.

Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!

How are terrorists using AI? Semi-structured interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members conducted in northeast Nigeria in 2025 and 2026 reveal unprecedented detail about AI-assisted terrorist activity primarily through 2024. This report finds that both…

New rule will begin 1 October as Mamdani administration also seeks to ban companies from charging ‘junk fees’

Hi Everyone - Firstly, I want to give my thanks to the Gemini team for providing access to such great models. It has been so helpful. We have some very specific workflows that rely on Gemini 2.5 Flash. Our internal benchmarks show that Gemini 3 flash does…

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GPT-5.6's new Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers go head-to-head with Grok 4.5, Claude, Meta's Muse Spark, and the open-weights crew on a raycaster, a Rubik's cube, a calculator, and Game of Life. Here's every build, with cost and latency.