Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with ...

Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them ...

Replace non-ASCII characters in comments with ASCII equivalents to fix C4819 warnings on Windows. This PR addresses recurring C4819 compiler warnings on Windows when using pybind11 with non-Unicode ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

Even decades later, One Piece continues to dominate both the anime and manga popularity charts. The One Piece universe is vast and home to more than 1,000 characters. During this journey, the anime ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the concept ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

I have long suggested that given enough time, AI input prompts (like the ones used by ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot) would be exploited in ways that we have not yet imagined. I have experimented with ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

How can you determine someone's true character? Is it possible for someone to hide something from you without it being reflected in their behavior or facial expressions? originally appeared on Quora: ...

Character.AI co-founders and former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas are returning to the search giant's artificial intelligence unit DeepMind. The two started one of the hottest AI ...

In a special series, The A.V. Club looks at the legacy of Warner Bros. 100 years after the studio was founded. Imagine a world without the antics of Bugs Bunny, Petunia Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, or ...