Measuring a commercial spatial audio processor, extracting its stereo impulse responses, and rebuilding the effect as a convolution filter on Linux.

Nicolas Cage, who recently starred in "Spider-Noir," said he won't work with Amazon again after a disagreement over an AI waiver.

A Bay Area restaurant owner says Elon Musk’s SpaceX owes him $70,000 for two dinners he catered in Palo Alto. “That’s not even a penny for them,” he said.

Another Python SQLite wrapper. Contribute to rogerbinns/apsw development by creating an account on GitHub.

There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…

Officers reportedly say anti-surveillance control policies may lead to details of active investigations reaching criminals.

Play the original Total Annihilation demo in your browser with Nanolathe, an open-source 2.5D RTS engine. Install the native beta, play online with friends, explore the code and build on it.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or being able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment.

I've also got a day job, so here is…

In chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing, Berger, borrowing from the ideas of Walter Benjamin, argues that our ability to reproduce art on a mass scale has fundamentally altered how we encounter it in the world.

An analysis of the OpenStreetMap data in North Korea: Who are the contributors?

The idea that 'artificial intelligence' is a poor moniker for the current frontier of generative AI models is indeed reasonable, but not because of the word 'artificial'. Frankly, including large lang...

It's a protest now.

From its anatomy to its purpose, there’s a lot we don't know about the female organ

We explore why NixOS is uniquely positioned to implement a scalable process for vulnerability management.

Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel.

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A New Jersey lawsuit alleges a longtime remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that would photograph her every three minutes.

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, ...