The New York Times

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...
Vanity Fair

Chess Legend Magnus Carlsen Lost to Upstart Hans Niemann—Then All Hell Broke Loose

Ten minutes past one in the afternoon—and Magnus Carlsen’s world was crashing down around him. This can’t be happening. Magnus ran a hand through his disheveled mane of auburn hair, a chaotic halo ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Lea Michele to Depart ‘Chess’ on Broadway in June

Michele opened the musical at the Imperial Theatre in November. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Michele leaves the production after opening the musical at the Imperial Theatre in November. A ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
InfoWorld

CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT?

PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...
The New York Times

Months After a Tragedy, the Chess World Remains Divided

The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars. The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional ...
Business Wire

Sweetgreen Launches New Menu in Collaboration with Function Health, Designed by Dr. Mark Hyman

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Sweetgreen and Function, in collaboration with Function’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Mark Hyman, MD, announced a menu that aims to be first-of-its-kind, ...
New Scientist

Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

Chess can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at ...
Reuters

Chess-FIDE reinstates Russian and Belarusian teams in official contests

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has voted to allow teams from Russia and Belarus to return to official competitions and fully restored the rights of youth players ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
STAT

Function Health has won over consumers. When will it publish evidence?

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...