Urban Design and Adaptive Reuse in North Korea, Japan, and Singapore
"Little Thailand" in Golden Mile Complex; Sengkang, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons; We debate...
jemalloc Postmortem
Published Jun 12, 2025 The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and has...
A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on...
Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)
At the end of our previous blog post, we got PreBoard to show its UI. But...
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
On a late-summer day in 2001, at the University of Poitiers in west-central France, the palaeontologist...
Driving Innovation: Kitware’s Planned Strategic Growth in AI and Cybersecurity
I've been thinking a lot about how Kitware has grown over the years. In 1998, we...
Cloud Repatriation Is Getting Complicated
Five years ago, I fairly confidently stated that Cloud Repatriation Isn’t a Thing, and I by...
Apple's Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad's Mac-like multitasking
CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi introduced the new multitasking UI...
Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice...
Epic aims to boost originality in Fortnite’s creator ecosystem
Creators believe new Fortnite updates, including a moderation "similarity score," will help fix the platform's persistent...