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One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
The web-scraping arm race continues
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out a new profile management featur
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
This is a pretty niche topic; I don't imagine there are many of us out there. Actually, to be strict, I'd say this advice is tailored to people who've had hemorrhagic stroke in the parietal lobe…
Tata Motors gave away the keys to their infrastructure and customer data on their public websites.
An deep dive into a pathological case.
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
Tor Browser 15.0 is now available, featuring an update to Firefox ESR 140, improvements to tab management and the address bar on desktop, and screen lock for Android.
Why tinkering matters as a lifelong learning tool.
We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way. In December 2020, John Gruber wrote: We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and…
One day on my drive home, I saw three towers. One of them had a bunch of blinking white lights, another one had red lights that kind of faded in and out, and the third one, well, it wasn't doing anything. I'm lucky to have a radio engineer for a dad, so Dad: why do some towers blink?
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
6.2k words, 29 minutes reading time
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secure Connections”. This means Ch…
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve learned for using it…
UPDATE: I submitted a more formal version of this article to the UMAP Journal (Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications), which publishes articles that use mathematical modeling for real-world problems, often with a pedagogical or expository angle. A preprint is available on arXiv at…
It’s very much a “v1” product. You type a prompt to start a new thread, it launches a little container for your agent to work in, and you can keep talking to it. It produces a branch, which you can open a PR for (that’s the only way to see a diff of the changes Claude Code made, for now). Or if you want to keep…
Swiss cheese gets holes from carbon dioxide bubbles during the cheese-making process. Learn more about what causes the holes in Swiss cheese at U.S. Dairy.
A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage
Where has all the weirdness gone?
How far would you go for realism? The world of flight simulation has come a long way over the past […]
Testing Apple’s latest noise-cancelling earbuds at 39,000 feet reveals a potential flaw most users won’t notice, until they fly.
ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX arrives in October! Experience 8K HDR with mini LED, 4032-zone dimming, 1200 nits brightness, built-in colorimeter & Thunderbolt 4. Perfect for creators. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for the latest tech updates!
Can LLMs control robots? We answer this by testing how good models are at passing the butter – or more generally, do delivery tasks in a household setting. State of the art models struggle, with the best model scoring 40% at Butter-Bench, compared to 95% for humans.
Celebrate SFP Liberation Day with Ubiquiti’s new SFP Wizard, the $49 portable tool that tests and programs any SFP or QSFP module in seconds. Enjoy up to 1000% off Ubiquiti SFPs and unlock true universal compatibility across every switch and network.
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
Tailscale Services is a new way to define available resources on your network and expand the granularity of your access controls to resources that may not have Tailscale installed on them.
