The first two Distinguished Corporate Patrons each pledge $100,000 a year for three years, taking the Omacom Foundation to $12.6 million.

A working phone booth on a dusty street corner at Burning Man.

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all?

SDK for robotics teams to verify the quality of their data used for AI model training. - Hebbian-Robotics/hflow

“Hardening” seems to be a very popular term in the C++ World in 2026. In this article we’ll explore what this word means and see some core examples. Can a hardened library make C++ fully safe? Let’s find out.
The Core Idea   When you learned about std::vector…

An agent on its own computer, signed into your tools, with a wiki of everything your company knows. You text it work. It texts you when it's done.

Blue light—short wavelengths of visible light emitted by smartphones, computers, and TVs—impairs the eye’s ability to distinguish fine detail more than any other wavelength, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. This finding could help…

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung believes the shortage of memory chips could continue until the end of 2030. He said he does not see any clear signs of too many memory chips in the market. Kwak shared his views after SK Hynix started work on a new chip packaging…

Serverbox is an agentless desktop control panel for Linux servers. Dashboards, terminals, file management, Docker, services, cron, users, firewalls and SSH tunnels — over plain SSH, with nothing installed on your servers. Free for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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Coercive Competition and the Future of Work

An open-source operating system based on Darwin and FreeBSD that aims to be compatible with macOS applications.

Workers and policymakers are pushing for safeguards around AI’s use in health care through collective bargaining and legislation.

Konrad Zuse aus Hoyerswerda baute den ersten funktionierenden Computer der Welt. Nun muss das Zuse-Computer-Museum in Hoyerswerda schließen. Wie konnte es so weit kommen?

I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.

On 29-30 August, I attended the State of the Map (SotM) conference, in particular the scientific part. It’s been 15 years since the last time that I attended the SotM conference (last time 20…

The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But America’s soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away — people who don’t even know they’re owners at all.

Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience.

If I now have to check the provenance of my produce, I should probably do the same for my hosting bill.