Been quite a fun week for people like me who enjoy following what’s happening in the various corners of the web. Since I have a bunch of scattered …

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown.

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The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same. Like vi! vi is a programming text editor that was created by...

Climate Change is happening and everyone is surprised. And yet we have known it was coming for over 50 years.

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Exceptions are often a better way to handle errors than returning them as values. We argue that traditional exceptions provide better user and developer experience, and show that they even result in faster execution.

WM Motor filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, and Singulato and Aiways have left the market, too. An estimated 160,000 Chinese car owners are left in the lurch.

Romania and Latvia, both members of NATO, on September 8 accused Russia of violating their countries' airspace with military drones, escalating tensions between Moscow and the West.

It is with great sorrow but even greater fury that I have submitted my resignation from the NaNoWrimo Authors Board this morning. Why? Because they’ve come out with an absolutely insupportable posi…

Post prompted by a series of posts I read recently, written by Matthew, So1o, Simone, and Alex and also by posts on the 32bit.cafe. I wrote some 1000 …

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