The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn’t shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.

It's time to fix the real problems

Nobody in the comments is real

Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.

Online sleuths detected the error after Sydney Marathon unveiled the double-sided medal.

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie: Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical…

An essay on the pervasive internalized authoritarianism found in the programming profession.

Slovakia's national security service NBU has issued a security alert against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras.The agency s [Read More]

There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to “Let it Go&#822…

Thought experiment I discussed with my family at the dinner table:

What if we completely redesign housing: making it a universal right, while keeping market-like mechanisms for creating and improving it?

• Every citizen has the right to live in one home…

Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that…

Seventeen models on the Featherbench leaderboard: glm-5.3 leads at 100%, eight tie at 96%, and checker errors flip the safety ranking. See who tops the board.

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

Non-invasive decoding of inner speech faces a fundamental data problem: a corpus pairing brain activity with a person's spontaneous inner monologue cannot be collected, and the available proxy...

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.