Collaborate Disseminate
Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Va… Continue reading That Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History
Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the “enshittification” of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be “the beginning of the end for enshittification” in a new article for the Guardian &mdas… Continue reading Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End ‘Enshittification’
For a quarter century, the TIOBE Index has attempted to rank the popularity of programming languages by the number of search engine results they bring up — and this week they had an announcement.
Over the last year the language showing the larg… Continue reading C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE
“We will make the new ð algorithm…open source in 7 days,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is “including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users,” and “This will be repeated every … Continue reading Elon Musk: X’s New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days
An R&D lab under America’s Energy Department annnounced this week that “Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and en… Continue reading Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math
Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux.
“Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop,” quipped the Verge’s senior reviews editor, who finally “got fe… Continue reading Four More Tech Bloggers are Switching to Linux
Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux.
“Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop,” quipped the Verge’s senior reviews editor, who finally “got fe… Continue reading Four More Tech Bloggers Are Switching to Linux
A founder of Twitter and a founder of Pinterest are now working on
“social media for people who hate social media,” writes a Washington Post columnist.
“When I heard that this platform would harness AI to help us live more meaningful lives, I wanted … Continue reading AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.
They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has im… Continue reading AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
Amazon “has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter,” reports CNBC:
As part of the plans, Amazon has proposed building a one-story, 229,000-square-foot building [on a 35-acre lot] in Orlan… Continue reading Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago