New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television

Making English more enjoyable to write.

Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the 1st class tickets…

Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue…

So I was optimizing a domain-specific compressor the other day, as one does.
One important problem was chunking the input string and optimally choosing the most compact encoding for each chunk (different encodings compress different characters better, so…

Berkshire Hathaway just reported a record $397.4 billion in cash and T-bills, 59% of its investable portfolio. After fourteen straight quarters of net Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a record $397.4 billion in cash after fourteen straight quarters of net…

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.

Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx

I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope…

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

Frontier labs are locking the strongest models behind metered APIs and lobbying that open weights are a national-security problem. Licenses won't stop regulatory capture. The defense has to be architectural.

Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop - clawkwork/clawk

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced…

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.