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Joel Spolsky transitioned from Stack Overflow CEO to sabbatical, serving as chairman of Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH, with HASH building an open-source simulation platform.
Learn how HASH's free online simulation platform uses JavaScript agents to model complex systems, from warehouses to epidemics. Turn behaviors into insights.
From COM legacy to Stack Overflow's rapid impact, this article explores programming's slow evolution and the one change that accelerated learning and collaboration.
The Block Protocol is an open standard for interchangeable content blocks across web editors, ending proprietary fragmentation and enabling reusable, rich components.
The Block Protocol makes semantic markup simple by turning content into self-describing blocks, finally realizing the Semantic Web vision.
A tutorial analyzing two decades of cybersecurity failures (MGM, Caesars, MOVEit) and providing actionable steps to avoid them through patching, segmentation, authentication, and incident response.
Defend against AI-driven threats with static analysis, behavioral monitoring, threat modeling, honeypots, and continuous retraining. Adapt or be exploited.
OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google's SynthID to watermark AI images, helping verify authenticity through provenance metadata and invisible digital watermarks, raising transparency against misinformation.
SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion about 30 days after its record IPO, expected in July. The deal diversifies SpaceX into AI, leveraging Cursor's coding tools to accelerate development.
Analog Devices' $1.5B acquisition of Empower Semiconductor targets AI power inefficiency via integrated voltage regulators, reshaping data center hardware.
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team to supercharge Claude, highlighting talent competition and AI safety focus.
A step-by-step guide for governments in the Americas to combat arbitrary digital surveillance, based on EFF's new guide and Inter-American human rights norms.
Learn about EFF's privacy policy update explaining opt-in email tracking, how consent works, and how to opt out. Step-by-step guide with tips.
A step-by-step guide to protect your privacy from corporate overreach: recognize tactics, reduce footprint, use free tools, advocate for laws, and support EFF.
A step-by-step guide for tech companies to emulate Microsoft's recent human rights accountability actions, including publishing standards, vetting contracts, empowering dissent, investigating, taking corrective action, and disclosing findings.
Learn to compress KV caches in LLMs using TurboQuant: install, configure, apply quantization, evaluate, and deploy in RAG systems. Step-by-step with tips.
V8 optimized mutable heap numbers for seed variable in Math.random, achieving 2.5x speedup in async-fs benchmark by avoiding repeated HeapNumber allocations.
V8 introduces speculative optimizations for WebAssembly using deopts and inlining, achieving significant speedups especially for WasmGC programs.
V8's recent optimization makes JSON.stringify more than twice as fast via a side-effect-free fast path, iterative traversal, and templatized string handling.
March 2026 Python VS Code extension update: opt-in symbol search in installed packages and experimental Rust-based parallel indexer for 10x faster IntelliSense.