Another little chess puzzle

Here’s another little chess puzzle by Martin Gardner, taken from the same paper as earlier. The task is to place two rooks, two bishops, and two knights on a 4… Weiterlesen »Another little chess puzzle

These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.

The next Starship launch may come as soon as next week. A test of its Raptor engines suggests SpaceX has resolved the issues that plagued its recent flights.

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB is an excellent global distributed, multi-model database service for high availability, low-latency access, and straightforward scalability. One of its most prominent characteristics is multi-region writes, whereby… Weiterlesen »Cosmos DB Disaster Recovery: Multi-Region Write Pitfalls and How to Evade Them

Contrary to the White House’s assertions, we consumers are indeed footing the bill for all these tariffs. Companies from across industries have been stopping sales or raising prices over the… Weiterlesen »Here’s How the Tariffs Are Impacting the Price of Gaming

Last year, the Biden administration set limits on PFAS in drinking water systems. Donald Trump’s EPA is planning to dramatically soften that rule.

Security researchers and developers are raising alarms over “slopsquatting,” a new form of supply chain attack that leverages AI-generated misinformation commonly known as hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on coding… Weiterlesen »Developers Beware: Slopsquatting and Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) [1] defines a set of public security standards developed by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) [2] that govern the security requirements for cryptographic… Weiterlesen »FIPS 140-3: The Security Standard That Protects Our Federal Data

The map that takes a quaternion x to the quaternion qx is linear, so it can be represented as multiplication by a matrix. The same is true of the map that… Weiterlesen »Multiplying by quaternions on the left and right

Well, we’ve reached the end of the road. Andor’s second and final season brought us 12 episodes of (mostly) exceptional Star Wars drama released in three-episode chunks, a format which… Weiterlesen »We Say Goodbye To Andor, One Of The Best TV Shows Of 2025