We launch our coverage of Assange’s extradition trial by speaking with Nils Melzer, a UN official and professor of law who’s outlined the inhumane treatment the WikiLeaks founder faces.

It's surprisingly hard and we use less than immediately obvious

or, why predictability is important

OPSEC plan: Secure location ✅ Seize and secure all mobile phones to prevent surveillance ✅ Honour system that no one is wearing a wire ✅ All that security to protect against “them” but nothing to protect against “us”

A letter signed by hundreds of scientists calls for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.” The move comes months after the South Asian country raised serious concerns about the nature of some videos on ByteDance’s app and the…

Third of people will spend less on mobiles and other gadgets over next two years

This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework…

The news: On September 22, Microsoft announced that it would begin exclusively licensing GPT-3, the world’s largest language model, built by San Francisco–based OpenAI. The model acts like a powerful autocomplete: it can generate essays given the starting…

It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items. 

Over the past few months I've had an ergonomic keyboard obsession. It started out simple, just wanting to improve my typing experience. It ended with me writing a driver. This is my story - now available as an audiobook!

Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from All Hacker News Posts: Stories, Ask/Show HN, polls

Guitar plugin made with JUCE that uses neural network models to emulate real world hardware. - GitHub - GuitarML/SmartGuitarAmp: Guitar plugin made with JUCE that uses neural network models to emul...