Last year, I discovered that the Kosinski compression format is actually LZEXE, which was used for compressing DOS executables back in the 90s and the late 80s. Its developer catalogues three versi…

I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX…

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Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

This is a story that started back in 2022, but I think its a perfect time to reflect on the impact that it has had on my friend group still to this day.

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Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. Contribute to stan-smith/OpenFLOW development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM before serving it as markdown in the terminal.

New research identifies the genes necessary for zebrafish to regenerate their hearts after damage—work that could ultimately impact the recovery of human patients after heart attacks.

Grammarly has signed a deal to acquire email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite and diversify its business, its executives told Reuters in an interview.

USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

Exploring the outer reaches of the Solar System presents significant propulsion and mission design challenges. This study assesses the feasibility of a mission to Sedna using two advanced...

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PlanetScale now supports Postgres

Mathematical software has traditionally been built in the form of "packages" that build on each other. A substantial fraction of these packages is written in C++ and, as a consequence, the...

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Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

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