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Computer Shopper was a beloved computer magazine that served as the unofficial “bible” of the state of hardware and software to the general public throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It was known for its extensive page count, willingness to cover any computer-adjacent topic, and its massive monthly issues filled with advertisements for computer components. However, […]
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Apple has launched Vision Pro, a spatial computing device that combines digital and physical elements and operates with a threedimensional user interface. The device comprises an ultra-high-resolution display system that hosts 23 million pixels across two displays, which are managed by the operating system visionOS, the world’s first spatial operating system. Control is managed by the user’s voice, […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of lying to regulators and investors about its operations and mishandling of customer funds. The SEC alleges that Binance mixed billions of dollars in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance’s founder, Changpeng […]
Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health have formed a union called NIH Fellows United, pushing for better conditions, pay and benefits. To date, around 3,000 research fellows have signed up to the body, which is seeking to unite the roughly 4,800 fellows who hold non-permanent staff positions across the agency, representing around one […]
Sandstorm.io is an open source project that aims to make hosting web-based productivity apps in a secure and user-friendly way. Apps, documents, chat rooms, and more are saved in a secure sandbox called “grains,” protecting users from security vulnerabilities. Every Sandstorm app is available on the App Market for easy installation, and all apps come […]
In this post, Austin Z. Henley explores how to implement cosine in C, using several different approaches and optimizations. He benchmarks each implementation for both accuracy and runtime, with the goal of finding a method that is simple enough for him to understand, accurate enough that no one will notice the error, and fast enough […]
Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao are facing accusations from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of violating securities rules, the latest development in the crypto exchange’s ongoing legal troubles. The SEC alleges that Binance operated unregistered exchanges, sold unregistered securities, and misrepresented trading controls, among other violations. This marks a significant escalation in […]
Lisp’s expressive power is tied to its uniform syntax, which allows macros to apply everywhere, making it easy to define macros that operate on expressions, statements, declarations, and even lexically scoped ones. Lisp syntax is highly uniform and does not lend itself to syntax bikeshedding, unlike SQL, which has a highly specific syntax that is […]
The author shares their experience of running Linux on an Xbox 360 for a project they started in March. They found an old Ubuntu live CD on Sourceforge and then used a precompiled Linux 2.6.24.3 Kernel to get Debian booting on the Xbox. After modifying the hard drive, they managed to compile Gentoo on the […]
The U.S. Patent Office is proposing new rules to limit who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If approved, these rules would primarily benefit patent trolls by making challenging patents more burdensome, and sometimes impossible. Organizations, such as the EFF, which has used this process to fight certain patents, could be barred from filing patent challenges […]