Decoding Unicode in this video explores the growth and history of Unicode, including a chart remade from John Cook's post. It ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers. Attackers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based in Rome, Diana loves all kinds of stories, even though she’s too lazy for most things that aren’t games. She's a freelance writer with a degree in Art History, contributing to GameRant while she ...

There are numerous conventional and good methods for watching movies. You can buy a Blu-ray, rent a digital copy, and thanks to MSCHF’s latest experiment, you can watch them in a way they should never ...

MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day. MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day. MSCHF’s ...

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x" in the ...

We all use text-based fields at one time or another, and being limited to ASCII only can end up being a limitation. That’s what led [Luke Wren] to create asciiwave, a fantastic tool that turns ...