Okay, I’m slightly less mad about that ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ AI project
When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using…
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Stories From 25 Years of Software Development
Stories From 25 Years of Software Development By Susam Pal on 06 Feb 2026 Last year, I completed 20 years…
Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
1. In the first really heavy winter storm of the year, your power might go off. This is understandable but…
Overwatch: all the news about Blizzard’s hit hero shooter
TechUpdated Today, Feb 4, 2026, 7:53 PM UTCOverwatch: all the news about Blizzard’s hit hero shooterby Verge StaffLinkShareRSSGiftOverwatch 2, the…
How far does $5,000 go when you want an electric car?
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What you should know about the owners of US TikTok
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims…
Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyOn Saturday morning, a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for…
Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for years now…
I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format
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Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)
If you’ve been following the billionaire exodus from California with some confusion, here’s what’s actually driving the nervousness: it’s not…
Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)
FeaturedMaitreyi Chatterjee,Devansh Agarwal January 17, 2026 CleoP made with MidjourneyImage generated using OpenAI’s DALL·E Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of…
ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
An ongoing conversation—both within and outside of the tech community—has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently…
How I use Jujutsu
About three months ago I started using Jujutsu (JJ), a new Version Control System, for my personal projects. It took…
I built a GPU-accelerated SQLite on Apple Silicon to test a theory about the PCIe bottleneck. Here’s what I found.
Look, I know everyone here loves NVIDIA. And for good reason – those cards are beasts. But I've been arguing…
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
If you think about emails as if they’re anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard–that is to say, they…
Lessons from 14 Years at Google
When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right….
One character change in Open Source Software
My latest contribution was a one-character change. I changed a String from '?' to '!', which fixed a bug downstream…
OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
OpenAI is betting big on audio AI, and it’s not just about making ChatGPT sound better. According to new reporting…
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products…
Static Allocation with Zig
Over the past few months I’ve been chipping away at a small Redis-compatible key/value server called kv. The goal is…