About four years ago (?!) I wrote a blog post called The Great Composite Comparison, where I compared a number of methods for upscaling composite video. At t...

It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…

Tech lovers are trading in their smartphones for dumb phones and embracing 'appstinence'

The 28-year-old was brought to the Nolita home, where he was held and tortured for several weeks, according to sources.

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The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried to get his Bitcoin password, prosecutors say.

Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.

Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …

An LLM should never output anything but tool calls and their arguments. The tools hold the specific, instantiated state of what the model is doing and its goals, while the model itself holds only the information it requires for its immediate task and some…

When working with Go in an industrial context, I feel like dependency injection (DI)
often gets a bad rep because of DI frameworks. But DI as a technique is quite useful. It
just tends to get explained with too many OO jargons and triggers PTSD among those…

#byte #smalltalk #programming

When I first read this issue of Byte, I couldn’t make any sense of it. Computers used keyboards, so what was this strange “mouse” device? Computers showed text on a screen. So what were these windows and menus? The truth of…

During World War I, the US government designed and constructed entire communities for workers and their families, setting new standards for housing and neighborhood planning.

Exotic materials with bizarre electron behavior could pave the road to revolutionary technologies

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Wall Go – Free online strategy board game inspired by Devil’s Plan. Play solo or with friends, territory scoring, undo/redo, and a modern UI. No signup needed, just play!