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 ...

Pixelated RPGs are pretty standard in games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, but have you ever seen anything like ASCIICKER? It’s a full-color three-dimensional world rendered with ASCII art and ...

This code was created in 2001-2004 when I taught Borland Delphi 3 to myself. It contains many, many global variables, unstructured and undocumented procedural code and bad variable names. If you don’t ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ...

The colourful turn-based story features a style inspired by the expressive potential of keyboard characters. It draws ...

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 ...

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 ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Passwords and passphrases help prevent unauthorized people from accessing files, programs, and other resources. When you create a password or passphrase, you should make it strong, which means it’s ...

As spotted by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft has published a new service alert related to Outlook. Labelled as issue EX1189359 and titled "Users may be unable to open Excel files attached to email ...