This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Last week, a few of my trusted music sources on Twitter started whispering about a new album that was a must-listen but...

Psychedelia was the first ever interactive 'light synthesizer'. It was written for the Commodore 64 by Jeff Minter and published by Llamasoft in 1984. psychedelia syndrome is a book-length exploration of the assembly code behind the game and an atlas of the pixels ...

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks it has shipped since the vehicle was released in late 2023, according to a Friday filing from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), following reports of a faulty accelerator pedal. Cybertruck owners reported the vehicle’s accelerato...

Last month researchers reported that the data memory-dependent prefetcher (DMP) on Apple M1 chips can be used to break encryption. (And there are indications that similar attacks might be possible on Intel silicon.) The researchers observe that any (64-bit) aligned data word, whose value matches bit...

Remember teletext? This is exactly the same. Each page is assigned a three digit number - you'll see navigation lines that give a page description followed by a number (e.g. "Sport Headlines 302") Use the number keys on the on-screen remote (or your keyboard if you're on a PC) to enter a numb...

Lately, I’ve been helping people identify fonts, leading me to uncover intriguing typeface histories. Here’s my roundup of font finds that might pique your interest, and perhaps introduce a new member/family to your personal font collection. What happens when you add serifs to a very bold sans s...

nrr initializes and resolves scripts way faster than other package managers and script runners. It achieves this by providing the largest feature coverage possible while keeping it simple and performant. Benchmarks run on an AWS EC2 t4g.micro instance with the command hyperfine --shell=none --warmup...

The incident concerns Mobile Guardian, a device management app installed on personal learning devices used by students, like iPads and Google Chromebooks. SINGAPORE: A data breach at one of its vendors has resulted in the "unauthorised access" of names and email addresses of parents and staff from ...

Foreign nation-state cyber adversaries are tenacious. Their attacks are evolving to get around the industry’s most sophisticated defenses. Last year was exploitation of routers, and this year’s theme has been compromise of edge protection devices. Despite our commitment to safeguarding our digit...

The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown. Avian influenza A(H5N1) first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown expo...