Photos by Laurence von der Weid. Remove Ads One thing is clear from the get-go: Werner Herzog, the enigmatic German icon of all things Art, likes for things to be precise. He makes sure I know this wi

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, we cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of software engineers and engineering lea

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron is as much an ode to lost collaborators and a confrontation with death as it is a making-of doc to 2023’s The Boy and the Heron. Director: Kaku Arakawa Genre: Documentary Run Time: 120′ Global Release Date: December 9, 2024 Where to Watch: Max (US), Netflix (UK), on…

I want to get back into writing more regularly this year, so in light of that, here’s my last year in review. Evaluating LLMs Like many of us in tech, I spent a large portion of 2024 thinking about and working with LLMs, but I was lucky enough to do it for work. I spent the year designing, building,…

“You should actually go out and build the thing you want to see exist—not just say ‘oh, that’s gonna happen. I’m just going to sit back and wait for somebody else to do it’… Things don’t just automatically show up. There are great men and women who go out there and create these things. So try to be…

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned that “consuming any type of alcohol — beer, wine, or spirits — increases the risk for at least seven types of cancer.”AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Jan. 3, 2025 Europe Correspondent The U.S. surgeon general on Friday called for alcoholic beverages to carry labels warning…

Over the weekend, the European Union (EU) implemented a new law that makes the USB-C port mandatory for a range of electronic devices including smartphones. As of Saturday (December 28), the EU officially adopted the USB-C as the common standard. The mandate means that all small and medium-sized…

Street Address City, State, Zip Phone Number Featured Aug 19, 2019 3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC Aug 19, 2019 This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday. Aug 19, 2019…

Technology What Is USB Type C, And What Can It Do? By Jan. 2, 2025 12:15 pm EST Yalcin Sonat/Shutterstock To younger computer users, this may come as a shock, but connectivity used to be a lot more complicated. Before USB (short for Universal Serial Bus) took hold as the common standard for…

Photo: Artwork by Ayatgali Tuleubek In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their…

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Abstract Startup companies solve many of today’s most challenging problems, such as the decarbonisation of the economy or the development of novel life-saving vaccines. Startups are a vital source of innovation, yet the most innovative are also the least likely to survive. The probability of success…

Software companies are touting something called the ‘Rule of 40,’ but some are more flash than substance Whatever numbers investors want to see, management will supply them. Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images Like hemlines and haircuts, stocks go in and out of fashion. So do the…

The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few…

TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is an international standard that enables trust in computing platforms in general, providing several security-related features for computer systems, including hashing, encryption, signing, random number generation, and many more! It was created by a computer industry…

In this article, we will learn how asymmetric-key encryption and digital signatures work from a practical perspective. In the previous article, we learned the basics of symmetric-key encryption, including how to generate keys using a password-based key derivation function called PBKDF2, how block…

CLEARWATER — When he jumped into the car that Sunday, Stanley knew where they were going. He started wagging his tail, and his mouth widened into a grin. Usually when they go for rides, his sister, another pit bull, comes along. But when it’s just mom and him, Stanley knows he’s heading to that…

What happens when USB-D arrives? USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect Apple has already pulled devices to comply with the Common Charger Directive. Kevin Purdy – Updated Jan 2, 2025 2:49 pm | 330 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links…

American Margaux Isaksen smiles during the women's fencing in the Modern Pentathlon on Aug. 19 at the Rio Olympics. She finished fourth in London in 2012 and 20th in Rio. "It makes you feel sort of worthless," Isaksen says of her performance. She calls this current period a "post-Olympic…

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. In Dante’s Inferno, the Roman writer Virgil leads the story’s narrator down through the circles of hell. Each circle is more grotesque and frightening than the last, until finally the pair reach…

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. My father-in-law, with whom I was very close, spent most of his life on the same working-class street in Barcelona’s El Clot neighborhood. Born in 1929, he saw Spain’s bloody civil war taking place…

Protected Media Path Article03/03/2021 In this article This topic discusses three interrelated topics: protected environment, media interoperability gateway, and revocation and renewal. A protected environment (PE) is a set of technologies that enables protected content to flow from and through…

1991 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski The Double Life of Veronique (French: La double vie de Véronique, Polish: Podwójne życie Weroniki) is a 1991 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, and starring Irène Jacob and Philippe Volter. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film explores…

Outside Vancouver's Metro Theatre is a plaque commemorating a play that at least two people thought was terrible. It describes how writer Raymond Hull was complaining about the atrocious production he had been watching while standing in the theatre's lobby during an intermission. A tall stranger who…

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Introduction from Jon Haidt: In my first book, The Happiness Hypothesis, I found that ancient wisdom about human relationships, consciousness, and flourishing holds up well in light of modern psychology. But as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which…

A Note from the Author: I am also releasing this series of articles on Linux Context Switching Internals in the form of a short ebook which is currently at an early-access discount at the below link. Paid subscribers get it a discounted rate. Get E-book at 30% discount As a thank you, I am offering…

31st December 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt

In this article, we will learn how symmetric-key encryption works from a practical perspective. In the “Introduction to encryption for embedded Linux developers” article, we learned the basic concepts, including an introduction to security, confidentiality and encryption, the main motivations and…

What would you give for another five years of robustly strong and healthy life? Your money? Your time? As progress in medical science and access to health care continue to extend our life spans, we have all seen loved ones living longer but with more ailments. Hearts, lungs, joints, and cognition…

This article is an introduction to encryption for embedded Linux developers. It’s the first article in a series about how to use encryption on embedded Linux devices. In this first part, I will cover the basic concepts, including an introduction to security, confidentiality and encryption, the main…

"You know... for kids!" The perfect New Year’s Eve comedy turns 30 Joel and Ethan Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) bombed at the box office but it's since amassed a strong cult following. Jennifer Ou