Month: May 2025

Programming Paradigms: All the Things We’ve Learned Not To Do

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I want to present a rather unusual perspective on programming paradigms. So far, we have three major paradigms: Structured Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, and Functional Programming. Programming Paradigms are fundamental ways of structuring code. They tell you what structures to use and, more importantly, what to avoid. Instead of giving you more power, they set limits … Read more

Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’

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Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records, … Read more

Pavel Durov rejects EU pressure to censor Romanian election content

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov said he rejected pressure from a European Union (EU) country to censor political content on the social media platform ahead of the May 18 presidential elections in Romania. According to Durov, a Western European government, which he hinted at with a baguette emoji, approached the platform and requested it censor conservative … Read more

Is Twitter Throttling Patreon Links? Yep

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Twitter is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms. Using a tool launched by The Markup last month, readers discovered that links to these sites were delayed by an average of 2.5 seconds—findings we confirmed. Patreon users told The Markup … Read more

Bitcoin Nears Golden Cross Weeks After ‘Trapping Bears’ as U.S. Debt Concerns Mount

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Bitcoin’s BTC price chart is echoing a bullish pattern that foreshadowed the late 2024 price surge from $70,000 to $100,000 amid mounting concerns over the sustainability of the U.S. debt. The leading cryptocurrency by market value appears on track to confirm a “golden cross” in the coming days, according to charting platform TradingView. The pattern … Read more

Crypto execs beef up security following string of kidnappings: Report

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Crypto industry executives are beefing up personal security and demanding more bodyguard services in response to a recent string of kidnapping and ransom attempts worldwide — particularly in France — targeting investors and professionals in the sector. According to a Bloomberg report, Infinite Risks International, a private security firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is seeing … Read more

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

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China’s Long March 2D rocket. China has launched the first 12 satellites of a planned 2,800-strong orbital supercomputer satellite network, reports Space News. The satellites, created by the company ADA Space, Zhijiang Laboratory, and Neijang High-Tech Zone, will be able to process the data they collect themselves, rather than relying on terrestrial stations to do … Read more

Go 1.22: Bringing Math/rand and Crypto/rand together

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Computers aren’t random. On the contrary, hardware designers work very hard to make sure computers run every program the same way every time. So when a program does need random numbers, that requires extra effort. Traditionally, computer scientists and programming languages have distinguished between two different kinds of random numbers: statistical and cryptographic randomness. In … Read more