Today’s large language models can do a disconcertingly good job of looking like genuine artificial intelligence, so it’s always nice to get a reminder that, despite the wide-eyed proselytising of tech ...

There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

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A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for millions across Asia and Europe overnight on Sept. 7-8. Here are the best times to watch the show unfold. When you purchase through links on our ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...

Cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, linked to a large surge in China, have been detected in multiple locations across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

It’s only been a week since Bobby Nash’s funeral, but judging from Season 8’s penultimate episode description, the 118 is already hard at work again. The official synopsis for 9-1-1 Season 8, Episode ...

The Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund is upgraded to a hold due to a more favorable regulatory environment and expected lower interest rates. UTF has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last year, ...