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New research reveals that sorbitol, a common sugar alcohol used in “low-calorie” foods, can behave much like fructose once inside the body, potentially contributing to liver strain and metabolic dysfunction. Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets…

After exploring Java bytecode in previous years (2022, 2023, 2024), this year we’ll take an unexpected detour for a Java advent: instead of generating Java bytecode, we’ll use Java to build and execute LLVM IR, the intermediate language behind compilers like…

Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.

A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

We've already discussed some object-level locks (specifically, relation-level locks), as well as row-level locks with their connection to object-level locks and also explored wait queues, which are...

OpenAI has disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications after users complained the recommendations resembled advertisements.

An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.

A single unhandled exception destroyed a $500 million rocket in seconds.

The F-35 wasn't going to make the same mistake.

By carefully slicing C++, engineers created one of the strictest coding standards ever written.

This...is Programming Like a Fighter…

Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. Contribute to researchxxl/syncthing-android development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Reactive rendering. #2662
Time travel debugging. #2910
Animation API for application code. #2757
Headless mode testing. #2698
First-class end-to-end testing. #3059
Input method support. #277...

Earth's radiation is harvested to power a Stirling engine for air circulation, mechanical work, and electricity.

You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap…

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The device uses Raman spectroscopy to measure blood glucose levels without any needles.

We’re entering a new period in the market. Call it what you want – a paradigm shift or simply shifting investor sentiment – but it’s clear that valuations now matter.  Unlike previous periods of time, such as the growth frenzy following the onset of the pandemic…