Following earnings this week that saw tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon report aggressive AI spending plans, EZ Primary Research CEO Ed Zitron gives his more skeptical take on the industry. In speaking about OpenAI and Anthropic Zitron argues "everyone…

Offline-first SQL sync with Typescript and Rust cores - syncular/syncular

Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the GitHub…

More police departments are trying to invigorate unsolved murder or missing cases through the power of podcasts.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed…

One line of evidence that AI might lead to explosive economic growth is the precedent set by the Industrial Revolution. For hundreds of years — 1252 to 1652, to be precise — the compound annual growth rate of per capita real GDP in the UK was around 0.07%.…

Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little...

See exactly what changed between two 3D model versions — added material, removed material, dimensional drift. Free, in-browser, STL/3MF/OBJ.

Cyber is a fast and concurrent scripting language.

An ongoing study of 531 website audits: how often businesses are named by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and which AI-readiness signals turn up on their own sites.

Clubgoers are using 3-MMC to dance all night, then taking more to lock in at the office.

The Seinfeld Chronicles digital edition visually and sonically presents an entirely unnecessary data-driven exploration of every episode of Seinfeld.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work

Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023

Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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