We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell's conjecture that the...

At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central…

Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp. chips, underscoring China’s continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its AI development, according to people…

Probe this invisible cosmic enigma with a DIY radio telescope

Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

How elevators push your buttons

Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.

Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product

Every ssh-askpass in the Gentoo tree pulls in X11 or a full KDE stack, so I wrote my own with Zig 0.16 and GTK4, with hand-written bindings that keep X out of the build.

The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies

Campaigners brought the legal action to try and stop the trial going ahead.

The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Re [...]

In a previous post, I was sceptical about using Apache DataFusion for graph analytics. However, after some thought and experimentation, I changed my mind. I have reconsidered my approach and now have a working implementation of basic graph algorithms, such…

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Drift eases your Mac's display into a warmer, calmer light as the day winds down.

I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec.
But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple…