Lyon is transitioning from Microsoft Office to open-source alternatives like Only Office, Linux, and PostgreSQL to reduce reliance on U.S. software and enhance digital sovereignty.

Future-proof. Long-lasting. Modular design inside and out. Switch to The Fairphone (Gen. 6). It's two phones in one. For a more mindful you.

The indictment reads like a cinematic plot: A Harvard Fellow and another activist allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s, Stinger missiles and grenades to topple South Sudan’s government. What they lacked was enough cash.

Discover why engineers hate managers, the common management anti-patterns that destroy trust, and practical solutions from someone who’s been on both sides.

Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews. 

I confronted humanity’s place in the universe in an epic larp inspired by Interstellar and Arrival.

An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. - google-gemini/gemini-cli

Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles

[Recorded on December 12, 2022]

Bill Atkinson shows and explains his binder of Polaroid photos which he took during the development of the Lisa, documenting the evolution of its graphical user interface.

Catalog number: 102809056
Acquisition number: 2022.0174

An interactive map showing the history of street and landmark names in San Francisco. Use the controls to browse, search, and filter by theme.

After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

How aesthetically coherent is your city?

Mid-sized American cities outperform major metros at turning economic growth into patents — challenging where we think innovation happens.

The Translator interface of the Translator and Language Detector APIs contains all the associated translation functionality, including checking AI model availability, creating a new Translator instance, using it to create a translation, and more.

President Trump is claiming the strikes “obliterated” three underground nuclear sites in Iran protected by military grade concrete. The truth may be more complicated.

US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengers

Sociologists have shown that “third places” such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods…

I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.