FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended. Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New […]
Cheeky Computer Scientist replicates Quantum Factoring record with a dog [pdf]
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HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity
HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity. It allows the nostalgic harddisk sound, while using modern SSD, CF or SD cards. Fully soldered and 100% tested board. Updated info added after LGR video : Sound volume and tone can be physically tuned, from very loud to almost silent, by applying simple physical changes.The LGR […]
Faking a JPEG
Tags: ◄ Computing ◄ Software Click to expand I’ve been wittering on about Spigot for a while. It’s small web application which generates a fake hierarchy of web pages, on the fly, using a Markov Chain to make gibberish content for aggressive web crawlers to ingest. Spigot has been sitting there, doing its thing, for […]
A software conference that advocates for quality
BSC 2025 Day 1 Portrait Speaker Title / topic Casey Muratori Programming history Dennis Gustafsson Parallelizing the Physics Engine Bill Hall Tools of the Trade Vjekoslav Krajačić File Pilot: Inside the Engine Day 2 Day 3 For updates, subscribe to the newsletter! Where do I get tickets? Physical attendance will be invite-only. Tickets will not […]
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and its CEO is going to Google
Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other […]
Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Theo LeggettBBC International Business Correspondent The preliminary report from India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau into the loss of Air India flight 171, which killed 260 people, has cast attention firmly on the actions of the pilots. As we just reported, the report says that according to data from the flight recorder both the fuel control […]
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
Earlier this week in Geneva, around 50 leading global initiatives and organisations dedicated to open-source LLMs and trustworthy AI convened at the International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit. Hosted by the AI centres of EPFL and ETH Zurich, the event marked a significant step in building a vibrant and collaborative international ecosystem for open foundation models. […]
jank is C++
If you’ve wondered how much a solo dev can build for seamless C++ interop on a quarter, you’re about to find out. In April, jank was unable to reach into C++ at all. Toward the end of this post, I’ll show some real world examples of what works today. Before that, though, I want to […]
Pa. House passes ‘click-to-cancel’ subscription bills
The state House has passed a pair of bills aimed at tamping down on dubious subscription services — just as a federal court moved to throw out similar rules proposed by federal regulators. Earlier this month, the House approved a bill cracking down on so-called “negative option” agreements in which consumers are automatically enrolled in […]