John Varley has died
. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025. A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But this misses his moment. In the mid-1970s, Varley exploded into science fiction like a phoenix. His “Eight Worlds” stories were set in a future where hyper-powerful aliens have […]
CapROS: The Capability-Based Reliable Operating System
The CapROS Operating System CapROS is a new operating system that merges some very old ideas about capabilities with some newer ideas about performance and resource management. The result is a small, secure, real-time operating system that provides orthogonal persistence. Acknowledgements The CapROS project is led by Charles Landau. CapROS is the continuation of the […]
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier. The Massachusetts-based consumer robot maker, which is currently listed, will be taken over by China’s Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. and a subsidiary of the Chinese […]
Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can’t Be Deleted
Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot is arguably one of the most controversial add-ons ever implemented in the Windows 11 operating system. However, the controversy doesn’t stop at PC operating systems. It seems to extend to TVs as well. According to Reddit user u/defjam16, his LG TV webOS received an update that installed Microsoft’s Copilot AI app, […]
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
It can’t be seen or touched, but it’s shaking up markets and attracting investment. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the object of desire for Big Tech, which is pouring astronomical sums into its development, fueled by record profits. The other side of this frenzy is workforce reductions, with automation as the backdrop, announced by multinationals […]
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world. Entire industries got swallowed by software – retail, media, finance – you name it, there has been incredible disruption over the past couple of decades with a proliferation of SaaS tooling. This has led to a huge swath of SaaS companies – valued, collectively, in the […]
History of Declarative Programming
Previous Next Up Want to advertise on this page? Go to the Contact link. Built by Shen Technology (c) Mark Tarver, June 2025
Anthropic Outage for Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4/4.5 across all services
Subscribe to updates for Elevated errors across many models via email and/or text message. You’ll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Enter mobile number
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon’s footsteps, two student projects independently use ‘collaborative filtering’ to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces. By Richard MacManus | November 11, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 2002, Season 4 Last.fm circa 2003; via Last.fm Flickr account. What we now know as the “social web” — or Web […]
The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)
by Richard P. Feynman “The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America” is a transcript of the keynote speech given by Richard Feynman at the First Inter‑American Conference on Physics Education in Rio de Janeiro in June 1963. Dr. Feynman is Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. The problem […]