Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow 5 September 2025 Sergey GoryashkoBBC News Russian NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images For many Russians, going online has become harder as censorship has tightened access to popular apps Marina, a 45-year-old…

Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories. The second most popular discussion – where…

written on December 26, 2024 Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it useful. This is a continuation to this. Over the years, I’ve been asked…

Alexis Osler, left, and Turner Osler display a QOR360 chair. Photo courtesy of QOR360 A Colchester doctor and his son are hoping to change the way people sit. What began as a basement project in 2018 now employs the equivalent of six full-time workers who produce active sitting chairs — a style that…

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings blog archive projects travel talks about written on September 04, 2025 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s…

06 Sep, 2025 I saw someone earlier post about how intrusive it felt to read a personal blog post. They made a point that folks like them who have grown up on short form microblogging like Twitter and Tumblr have a big leap to make when reading longer form blogposts. Not sure how many folks have that…

Julian Gollop's PC Gamer columns Did you know Julian Gollop has written four columns for us, including subjects like the creation of the deck builder genre? Find them all here. This article was originally published in issue 313 of Edge, an extremely good magazine about computer games. Subscribe here…

We’re just now starting to learn how to work with AI as software developers. The big idea: Claude can automate the coding, while you step into higher-value roles as project manager, designer, and software architect. The trick is to stop treating Claude as a chatbox and start treating it as a…

I was reading funding news last week, and I came to a big realization: Andreessen Horowitz is not a venture capital fund. A lot of people are thinking it. So there, I said it. And it’s not just Andreessen. It’s all the big funds. They started out as VC. They operate funds that invest in private…

Memos from Howard Marks Listen to Memo Archived Memos Subscribe The Calculus of Value On July 28, I flew to South America on a plane without Wi-Fi, leaving me without email or entertainment. What was I to do but start in on a memo? Interestingly, the things I wrote during that flight turned out to…

In 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the New England transcendentalist movement, published an essay about the importance of cultivating self-reliance. Emerson wanted each individual to make their own moral compass of greater importance than the rules imposed by the state and society. It was a…

Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating the lucrative Cloud Computing market. But it struggles to translate this strength into the new GPU/XPU…

When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse—economists warned that the…

"This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the video or just flip through the slides." This post is about how to keep secrets out of logs, and my claim is that (like many things in…

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over…

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in…

The gender gap between men and women has been a durable fact of life in American politics — and nowhere is this gap larger than among the youngest cohort of American adults, Gen Z. But it’s not just politics driving the divide. The latest NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows how…

Politics September 8, 2025 Perceptions of socialism remain steady at 39% positive WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are more positive toward capitalism than socialism, but the 54% viewing capitalism favorably is down from 60% in 2021 and near that level in most prior years. Americans remain more negative…

About a year ago, Maxim Schepelin and I set out to write our first book. A book for aspiring Engineering Managers. We quickly realized that writing was a much larger undertaking than we had anticipated. We also found ourselves overwhelmed by the numerous tools used in the industry. As engineering…

In the very first, pre-credits interview of Colin Hanks’s “John Candy: I Like Me”—a perfectly acceptable bio-documentary filled with entertaining clips and beloved entertainers telling heartwarming stories—his friend and frequent co-star Bill Murray poses the conundrum of telling Candy’s story: “I…

Save $40 WD Black SN7100 | 2 TB: was $159.99 now $119.99 at AmazonBeating even some PCIe 5.0 drives in our random 4K performance benchmark, this M.2 SSD is definitely up to the challenge of braving your Steam backlog. Write speeds are comparatively average, though. Key specs: NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | Up to…

15 Best Coming-Of-Age Movies Ever Made By Published 9 hours ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Christine (Saoirse Ronan) and Julie (Beanie Feldstein) walking in Lady Bird Coming-of-age is a timeless subgenre of cinema that stays ever popular because of the simultaneously comforting and…

(Image credit: Retro Smack / YouTube) 3D Pinball: Space Cadet is one of the classic games found in early copies of Windows, first arriving in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, before being bundled into the operating system until Windows XP. However, Dave Plummer, who ported the game over from 95 to…

AI and machine learning September 8, 2025 Paul Linse/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend…

'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir 8 days ago Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent AFP via Getty Images Roy's debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker and made her a celebrity at 36 "Someone once asked me what my mother's greatest legacy to me was,"…

'We wanted to make it real': How Goodfellas reinvented the gangster film 7 days ago Myles Burke Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Martin Scorsese's crime epic was released 35 years ago. In 1990, the director and his stars, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, revealed its secrets to the BBC. There was…

When Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against Gaza that is still under way nearly two years later, those few who still hoped for peaceful coexistence were among the first to die. The hardest-hit kibbutz, Nir Oz, has nearly 70…

It seems like Steven Soderbergh might have developed a late case of anglophilia, the retirement-teasing director situating himself in London for three films within the last two years. The first was a needless, throwaway Magic Mike sequel, but then this spring he gave us the delicious spy caper Black…

Elevation Pictures One of the reasons I go to film festivals—perhaps at this point the main one—is to see movies the way they’re meant to be seen. I don’t mean dazzling images on a silver screen, although that part is nice, especially compared to the frequently undazzling presentation of my local…

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!). You can download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but…

Rich Already Answered That! A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask…

Back to insights How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years Jeremy Edberg September 3, 2025 DBOS Architecture When I was responsible for the infrastructure at Reddit, the most important thing I maintained was Postgres, but a close second was RabbitMQ, our message broker. It was…

September 8, 2025 Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff…

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly,…

A new study shows people in countries with different obesity rates burn about the same number of calories. PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized…

AI Markets Have Crystalized AI markets have evolved significantly over the last 4 years. When GPT-3 came out and scaling laws were openly discussed in the AI literature, it seemed clear that you could extrapolate the rate of progress from GPT-2 to GPT-3 onwards through GPT-4, 5 etc and realize a…