Still gliding above the town on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn in Wuppertal has lost none of its magic

(to JS programmers: not that kind)

Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.

Interview: Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption

Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the…

In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…

Image via Wikipedia The ink was barely dry on the PPACA when the first of many lawsuits to block the mandated health insurance provisions of the law was filed in a Florida District Court. The pleadings, in part, read - The Constitution nowhere authorizes…

Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

Pai’s return as CTIA lobbyist fuels industry-wide battle over spectrum rights.

Mike Riggs and his wife dreamed of returning to the land. It wasn’t as easy as it looks on Tik-Tok: How many square feet of raised beds do you need to meet a toddler’s strawberry demand? I still don’t know. We dedicated 80 square feet to strawberries last…

Learn how OAuth 2.0 works with this simplified explanation and guide. Learn what it is, why it's essential for secure authorization, and best practices for implementation.

Professor theorises electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be similar to human language

David Zuckerman The 2025 Gödel Prize has been awarded to Eshan Chattopadhyay and David Zuckerman for their paper Explicit two-source extrac...

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers

A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux. - theopfr/somo

Update 6/10: Based on a short conversation with an engineering lead at X, some of the devices used at X are claimed to be using HSMs. See more further below. Matthew Garrett has a nice post about T…