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Kagi and Wolfram

Building a search engine is hard. Delivering accurate and reliable search results requires processing vast amounts of data, understanding complex queries, and constantly evolving to meet user expectations. In an era where AI-generated content is becoming...

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Is Tor still safe to use?

This blog post is a response to an investigative news report about a large-scale law-enforcement attack that managed to de-anonymize a user of an old version of the long-retired app Ricochet. This blog post aims to provide insight into what we know so far. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident…

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Meta Horizon OS

Today we’re taking the next step toward our vision for a more open computing platform for the metaverse. We’re opening up the operating system powering our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving more choice to consumers and a larger ecosystem for developers to build for. We’re working with leading…

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How French Drains Work

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February of 2017, one of the largest spillways in the world, the one at Oroville Dam in northern California, was severely damaged during releases from heavy rain. You might remember this. I made a video about it, and then ano