Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI

Terence Tao: Cleverness versus Intelligence in AI Tools and Humans

Tao: Intelligence is too high-dimensional for accurate low-dimensional narrative

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

China's chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America's limits

The App Store was always authoritarian

Former UK prime minster Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

Indonesia's film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly

Splitting a long string in lines efficiently

I Fell in Love with Calendar.txt

Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days

Preventing telephone manipulation: the TSG standards

Dubai's robotaxi dreams are coming for human drivers

Vercel Goes All in on Vibe Coding Web Apps

Terence Tao: Applying Red Team / Blue Team Duality to AI Workflows

Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation

Bitcoin Coup:How Crypto Accelerationists Engineered America's Financial Collapse

A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

Xmlui

Terence Tao: Game theory, politics and control of information

"AI discourse" is a joke

The Magical Thinking That's Killing Our Humanity

To Save Nature, Make It Sacred

AI Infiltrated Perfume

0.9999 ≊ 1

Terence Tao on the importance of funding basic mathematical research

A simple search engine from scratch

Cloud Overview

Resilience in the RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure)

Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers

Caddy v2.10.0

Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models "think"

Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

Debian bookworm live images now reproducible

AI and Esoteric Fascism

How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory

Terence Tao about the balance between quantitative and qualitative thinking

Terence Tao: The Regime of "No Effective Dynamics"

How FastAPI path operations work

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good

The Rise of Post-Literate History

Simpler and faster parsing code with std:views:split

The Year in Computer Science

End-to-end RCS encryption with iPhone users is still months away

All the Little Data – Speaking the Language of Robots

The Phones of the New NATO Secretary General

In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

Any Python program fits in 30 characters

Terence Tao: Solving problems by abstracting away highly relevant information

Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

Life Long Learning: Dealing with New Things

Archiving Android Password Store