SubMicro Engine: Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System Achieves Sub-Microsecond E2E
TL;DR An open-source execution engine called SubMicro Engine reports sub-microsecond end-to-end latency, with a median of 890 ns and tight…
Why quantum error correction may trigger a near-term FOOM in qubit quality
TL;DR Recent repetition-code experiments show step changes in protected-bit lifetime as researchers identify and fix failure modes, producing a rapid,…
Why Calling ‘The Global Market’ a Strategy Is an Irresponsible Shortcut
TL;DR Describing a target as “the global market” or naming a country as a single market often masks a lack…
A Christmas knock that changed lives: a Cardiff couple’s 45-year guest
TL;DR In December 1975 Rob and Dianne Parsons invited Ronnie Lockwood into their Cardiff home for Christmas; he remained with…
Self-referencing Page Tables for x86 Architecture: Bachelor Thesis Findings
TL;DR A bachelor thesis describes a technique that uses a self-reference in the x86 page-table root to expose page tables…
New Study Finds Traces of Wolf DNA Across Many Modern Dog Breeds
TL;DR Researchers report that fragments of wolf ancestry appear in a wide range of present-day dogs, challenging the idea that…
You don’t need Linux to run free, open-source software on macOS and Windows
TL;DR You can replace paid apps on aging macOS or Windows PCs with free and open-source alternatives without installing Linux.…
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete taxonomy of festive folk rhymes
TL;DR A lexicographer solicited versions of the schoolyard parody “Jingle Bells (Batman Smells)” on BlueSky and mapped dozens of variants.…
A Child in the State of Nature: The Wild Boy of Aveyron Reexamined
TL;DR Roger Shattuck’s 1980 book The Forbidden Experiment has been reissued by NYRB Classics in 2025, revisiting the case of…
The most damaging taboo about sexual violence: understanding intrusive fantasies
TL;DR Survivors of sexual violence can experience intrusive fantasies that adopt a perpetrator’s perspective; in trauma psychology this is understood…