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121. Cross-Compiling Common Lisp to WASM
122. Russia blocks Snapchat&Roblox, restricts Apple FaceTime, state officials say
Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to ‘conduct terrorist activities’
123. Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600
In 1966, Lander and Parkin published a paper containing exactly two sentences. They reported that they had used a program that used direct search on a CDC 6600 to obtain one counterexample to Euler’s Sum Of Powers Conjec…
124. A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
125. Formally Verifying Advent of Code Using Dijkstra's Program Construction
[I'm doing](https://tangled.org/haripm.com/aoc_2025) [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com) again this year, and part 1 of [today's problem](https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3) reminded me immediately of some of the problems I'm doing in my [Program Construction](https://ucd.ie/modules/COMP30060) module at UCD. So, I'm going to be coming up with a formally verified algorithm to solve Part 1 using Edsger W. Dijkstra's Structured Programming style of Program Composition.
126. Mistral 3 family of models released
A family of frontier open-source multimodal models
127. Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
128. 100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
129. Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse
130. The only winning move is not to play
Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further
131. Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)
132. In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
In the Orkney Islands, where megalithic monuments remain a fundamental part of the landscape, archeologists have been uncovering remarkable ruins, Alex Ross reports.
133. A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up with Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
134. Visualize 4B Years: The Trillions of Generations: LUCA to Modern Human
Explore the incredible journey of evolution from the first single cell to modern humans. Scroll through billions of years of ancestral life forms in this interactive visualization.
135. After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
136. Foreign-dlopen: call dlopen from static programs
Small library allowing to use dlopen() from statically-linked applications (where statically-linked executable vs loaded shared library may use completely different libc's) - pfalcon/foreign-dlopen
137. DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
138. India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app to ensure cyber safety
139. YouTube increases FreeBASIC performance (2019)
140. New homes in London were delayed by 'energy-hungry' data centres
The London Assembly found the growth of new data centres temporarily halted building some houses in 2022.
141. Understanding ECDSA
Exploring blockchain, math, and smart contracts through a security lens.
142. Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
143. Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
144. Let's Not Bring Back the Gatekeepers
The challenge for the liberal establishment in the social media era is simple: persuade or perish. If you can’t control the public conversation, you must participate in it.
145. Trying Out C++26 Executors
I wanted my program to boot up faster so I tried to multithread it with both executors and the more classic TBB.
146. Meta Set to Slash Spending on Metaverse as Zuckerberg Shifts Focus to AI
147. Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
We’re building the world’s greenest AI. Find out how we’re harnessing new technology while continuing our mission of putting people and the planet first.
148. SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 Released
Dear SWI-Prolog user, SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 (stable) is ready for download. Below is the full changelog since version 9.2.9, the previous stable version. Overall, version 10 is closely compatible to version 9.2. It mai…
149. Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....
150. The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle