Compaction is when a string of complex communications with an AI chat get boiled down into a summary, and the interaction ...

Theoretical computer scientists have mapped the parameterized complexity of median and closest genome rearrangement problems ...

A novel linear-time algorithm computes left-bounded shortest unique substrings twice as fast as existing methods while ...

FastWARC is a high-performance WARC parsing library written in Rust with bindings available for Python. Its design goals are high speed, a low and fixed memory footprint, ease of use, and byte-level ...

Microsoft issues critical out-of-band .NET security patch after confirming impact of Google Brotli algorithm vulnerability, advises users to update as soon as possible.

A story about compression ratiosThe person who developed the world's best archiver (a genius) was scouted by various places ...

Cryptographic hashing has two live generations fighting for the same job today. BLAKE2, standardized in IETF RFC 7693 back in 2012, still runs inside Argon2, WireGuard, and libsodium. BLAKE3, released ...

As Billy Strings prepares to reopen the historic Tivoli Theatre with two sold-out performances Tuesday and Wednesday, the Tivoli Theatre Foundation is inviting the community to share in the ...

Facebook is the latest social media platform to give users greater control over the algorithm that determines what appears in their feeds. Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, ...

The OpenSSH team released version 10.6 on Oct. 6 and said it will ship releases more often for now to get bugfixes into users’ hands more quickly. The maintainers have received a large number of ...

Abhinav pivoted from a career in banking to pursue his first love in writing. Even while working full-time, he continued contributing as an editor-at-large, a role he has held for more than 7 years. A ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. Whenever the bluegrass musician Billy Strings has a couple of days off on the ...