TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer science.

The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed

After 27 years of writing code, I have stopped spending time on a long list of small but painful engineering tasks. AI agents now handle commit messages, pull request descriptions, code comments, naming conventions, Git hygiene, issue tracking, and release…

It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy.

Explore 10,584 wars and 427 empires across 5,000 years on an interactive world map.

The materials of the future already exist — frontier intelligence can bring them to the world.

Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]

Hi Everyone - Firstly, I want to give my thanks to the Gemini team for providing access to such great models. It has been so helpful. We have some very specific workflows that rely on Gemini 2.5 Flash. Our internal benchmarks show that Gemini 3 flash does…

A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.

We built Moss because Voice AI breaks when retrieval is slow. Most retrieval infrastructure was not built for real-time reasoning. It adds latency, breaks context mid-conversation, and becomes the bottleneck just as an AI product needs to feel instant.

Moss…

The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to offer A.I. services on Apple devices, but their partnership has soured.

Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.

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The story of FRAKTA – one of the world's most utilised bags, sold at IKEA for over 30 years. Big and sturdy, it can hold most things, in different situations.

Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens.

Where should your auth token live so an XSS bug can't steal it? Here's how to build auth that survives the crazy non-secure world we live in.