The M1 is up *here*, running fast and cool, and all the competing chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, and whoever else are down *there*, running hot or running slow, looking around for their recently stolen pants.

In which I recommend bcrypt.

Intel badly needs its next-gen Rocket Lake processors to arrive on time, early in 2021, to stop the rot.

California will impose regional stay-at-home orders when I.C.U.’s near capacity. Biden says he will ask Americans to wear masks.

Stripe Financial Accounts for platforms lets customers store funds, move money and use payment cards issued by your platform – all within your ecosystem.

Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.

Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020

Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.

Climbing ropes, guitar strings, and hand sanitizer are among the newly reported uses for the toxic “forever” chemicals.

Gebru is known for influential research about bias in facial recognition

Facebook is embarking on a major overhaul of its hate speech algorithms, reversing years of so-called “race-blind” policies.

The US National Labor Relations Board files a formal complaint against Google over staff firings.

A senator is trying to get a bill through congress that makes the government buy up and sell the country’s cocaine production.

The HIV Prevention Trials Network study (HPTN 084) on the safety and efficacy of the long-acting injectable antiretroviral drug cabotegravir (CAB LA), for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in HIV-uninfected women, was stopped early by the trial Data and Safety…