LLMs and their proliferation

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance (2026)

12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026 (2026)

AI Models Fail Miserably at This One Easy Task: Telling Time (2025)

A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data (2025)

Hiding in Plain Sight: Weaponizing Invisible Unicode to Attack LLMs (2025)

The Bitter Lesson (2019)

One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks (2017)

How complex systems fail (2002)

Ironies of Automation (1983)

Climate

Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation (2023)

The main barriers to distributed interaction are not technological (2025)

Decarbonizing Conference Travel: Testing a Multi-Hub Approach (2024)

Understanding Solar Energy (2025)

Aerosols & Rapid Climate Change (2025)

Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it (2024)

Carbon accounting

The MBTA Pipeline for Detecting Compact Binary Coalescences in the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run (2025)

Music

Atsushi Hoshiai: The Man Behind The TR-909 (2024)

Typography

Variable Fonts — It Was Never About File Size (2025)

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (2026)

Subpixel Text Encoding (2008)

HPC

OpenMP: For & Scheduling (2016)

Scaling Analysis

Networks

Taking down my site on purpose (2026)

Splitting the ping (2021)

Using the internet like its 1999 (2026)

IPv6

How NOT to IPv6 (2026)

The state of IPv6 (2025)

Net neutrality

How Deutsche Telekom Starves Its Own Customers (2026)

Thomas Lohninger konfrontiert Telekom-Vorstand 2026 | Netzneutralität & bezahlte Überholspur (2026)

Nerdiest stuff

Building Ultra Long Range TOSLINK (2025)

Sysadmin friendly high speed ethernet switching (2024)

Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam (2023)

Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards (2020)

Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer (2026)

Other

how to be anti-social (2026)