I have many worries about what AI means for our field, for various definitions of “field”. But in this post I want to focus on just one thing I’ve started worrying about, and it’s a perverse thing: specifically, I’m concerned that AI is going to make software much too secure.
Source: Everything is about to “go dark” – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter’s latest figures for July 2026.
Source: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery. That is why we recently announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, an initiative providing 100,000 scientists and mathematicians with free access to our best ChatGPT models. We also continue to evaluate our models on open research problems during development.
Source: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | OpenAI
The fundamental problem, however, is Republican insiders who have convinced themselves that to keep and hold power, they need to trash the shared beliefs that hold American democracy together.
Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones.
Source: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
Although it is JavaScript based, Google Charts has a couple of options to make your charts entirely in PHP. You can either use server-side code (in our case PHP) to get the data, or get one of the open-source wrappers to do it for you.
Source: 4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components – SitePoint
Need to generate charts for the baseball-handbook.com website and looking into php options. Google seems like the simplest solution right now. The above site breaks down each option nicely.
Here’s more info about Google Charts.
Android Studio 4.0 is the result of our drive to bring you new and improved tools for coding smarter, building faster, and designing the apps your users depend on, and it’s now available on the stable channel.
Brad Dutton has been leading a community that is continuing Gallery development. He and his team have made progress over the past year and have a stable version of Gallery 3 that is PHP 7+ compatible, contains a replacement for the old Flash-based image uploader, an updated jQuery Library and other features. They’ve been testing it for a year now with no problems and have released it as Gallery 3.1.0.
Source: Gallery development is continuing! | Gallery
The above blurb posted 11/13/2019. The Gallery project went into hibernation in 2014. Sites hosted here, brandylion.com and bucktowngarden.com, use Gallery 2 which still works great.
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EFF, where are you?
Source: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made | Network World
From August 2015
Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.
“Windowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,” says Dylan Mulvin at the London School of Economics.
Source: A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now | New Scientist