'ASCII art ', which reproduces photographs and illustrations by combining letters and symbols, is one of the cultures that is inseparable from the history of the Internet, especially the Japanese ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted ...

Hi!<BR><BR>My display name (which is the same as my real name) contains the letter 'o-with-a-slash', but gets mangled by the system. I tried to search the forum for a solution, and found some old ...

One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable ...

Orcs stalk Frank Arnot through his dreams. No matter where he turns, no matter how hard and far his feet pound through dungeon corridors, they cut him off at every pass—towering beasts, tusks the ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...