Wow, half a year has passed since my last blog. I have to admit, during this period I was a bit disconnected from the physical AI world. I transitioned to a different team at work after their two d…

  Someone pointed out that Jeff Atwood wrote this same thing in 2008.  Jeff references Bruce Eckel from 2007 , and Bruce references Gerald...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The…

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

In a candid exchange in a YouTube video, Linus Torvalds has noted that he thinks that Elon Musk is too stupid to be working at a tech company.

The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer…

Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity

A natural experiment found that herpes zoster vaccination reduced the occurrence of
mild cognitive impairment and deaths due to dementia, indicating that the vaccine
may slow the progression of dementia throughout its clinical disease course.

Welcome to the slop era.

Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

I have a hobby.
Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen.
And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that.
More often than not…

A U.S. appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order that prevents OpenAI and Jony Ive's new hardware venture from using the name "io" for products similar to those planned by AI audio startup iyO, Bloomberg Law reports. iyO sued OpenAI earlier this…

Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

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