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Today's links Formalities: When it comes to AI, the Copyright Office is restoring copyright to its proper status, as something you have to work to get. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GWB x martial law; Li'l Sparky; Dueling Starbuckses; Microsoft b...

Space fiber optic cable manufacturing, nuclear district heating, Spain’s high-speed rail crash, China’s spaceplane, and more.

The most common way people experience classical style music these days is via movies and video-games. After seeing The Force Awakens - live in concert, I've become rather a fan of watching movies performed with a live soundtrack. But what about watching a video game with orchestral accompaniment? We travelled up to Wolverhampton to see "The Witcher": A one-of-a-kind live event that transforms…

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

Johnston’s Electric Train Shop was a family-owned business in St Louis for about 50 years. As its name suggests, it was a storefront in St Louis’s Dutchtown neighborhood, and advertised itself as St Louis’ first hobby shop that specialized in

The post Johnston’s Electric Trains, St. Louis appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

Lots of rumors, little confirmation.

The post The Microsoft building that was reportedly haunted appeared first on The Old New Thing.

From 2020 to 2022, I've encouraged a steady stream of students to pursue their education in computer science. Tech companies were hiring like crazy. I would interview 3 candidates a week on some occasions. The future of tech seemed to be paved with gold. Any day now, several...

Time Out London (Elizabethan Edition)

dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros (very slowly) running inside Qwen! In a comment...

"A lot of the stuff that I cut out, it's tragic that no one knows it."

There will never be a leap second again. At least not for UTC.

At the CGPM, they decided the last leap second we'll ever see for UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, happened back at the end of 2016.

Of course they made that decision while I was out on vacation, so I'm just getting this video up now:

But what's the CGPM, why does this matter, and why am I excited about it?

I did not care for this one bit. I found it cloying, infantilising, and far too circuitous. It starts off as a bit of an overwritten melodrama, where every phrase is a delicious flower waiting to bloom, but ends up being a over-sugared mess with a rotten heart. Parts are just exhausting to read, with no time to catch your breath between scenes. That can work in some books when spaced out -…

A survey of signing, provenance attestations and trusted publishing across package registries.

It was 52 years ago today, on October 31, 1974, that Federico Faggin (pronounced FAHH-jeen), the mastermind behind the early Intel CPUs, left Intel to try something else. His next big thing was the legendary Zilog Z-80 CPU. Yet another

The post When Federico Faggin left Intel appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

Elegance and intelligence can have a surprisingly negative correlation. Intelligent people sometimes produce inelegant solutions because they’re capable of rapidly brute-forcing problems. If I had to remember a hundred names, I would spend time coming up with clever mnemonic...

Then again, that is what they asked for.

The post The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen appeared first on The Old New Thing.

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-98432 for the project Linux, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-kfree where retransmitting a crafted connection request whil...

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions

Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API.

OpenAI have now launched pretty much exactly the same deal: if you have a $100, $200, or $500 subscription plan with them you now get that same quantity of credits to apply to one of your API organizations.

I maintain subscriptions with both companies, so this is great news for me! I may even ship some public-facing demos now that the credits are already covered by my existing subscriptions.

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, llm-pricing

With my kids I’m currently building a little dungeron crawler and we’re trying to learn a bit about game development along the way. However given that we live in the modern times of increasing capabilities we wanted to get a narrator and voice over. But we also wanted it to ...

A small-scale rule of thumb. This article will land much better with a concrete example, but I am drawing a blank here, so you gotta just blindly trust my say so!