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Intel Xeon 7: Can 18A and 3D Packaging Turn the Tide?

2025-08-29

Intel Xeon 7: Can 18A and 3D Packaging Turn the Tide?

With AMD holding over 40% revenue and 27% shipment share of the x86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, Intel is betting on its Xeon 7 processors (Clearwater Rapids and Clearwater Forest), launching in 2026, to regain ground. These CPUs leverage the 18A process, 2.5D EMIB interconnect, and Foveros 3D stacking—technologies first deployed (with delays) in the datacenter with the ill-fated Ponte Vecchio. The success of Xeon 7 hinges on stemming AMD's momentum and countering the rise of hyperscaler's custom Arm server CPUs. While the energy-efficient E-core variants have a niche market, they aid Intel in refining its 18A process and 3D packaging. This article details the architecture of the Clearwater Forest E-core processor, including its improved RibbonFET transistors, PowerVia backside power delivery, and 3D packaging, and analyzes its performance potential.

(www.nextplatform.com)

Hardware

Failing My Anthropic Interview (Again): A Reflection

2025-08-29

The author recounts two failed interviews with Anthropic, the first due to a simple mistake, the second due to not being good enough. The post details the author's disappointment and self-reflection, exploring the tension between authenticity and fitting a company culture. The author concludes by embracing the setback and encouraging perseverance.

(taylor.town)

Misc job interview

Quantum Signals Sent Over Commercial Fiber Using Standard Internet Protocol

2025-08-29

Quantum Signals Sent Over Commercial Fiber Using Standard Internet Protocol

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have achieved a groundbreaking feat: transmitting quantum signals over commercial fiber-optic cables using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). Their innovative Q-chip coordinates quantum and classical data, packaging them into standard internet packets. This overcomes the fragility of quantum signals and represents a crucial step towards a practical quantum internet, promising faster, more energy-efficient AI and breakthroughs in drug and materials design.

(phys.org)

Tech quantum networking

Draft Texts from Your Computer Keyboard

2025-08-29

Draft Texts from Your Computer Keyboard

Tired of typing long texts on your phone's tiny keyboard? This browser-based tool lets you draft and send SMS and iMessages using any computer keyboard. Simply type your message, and it generates a QR code you can scan with your phone to send. Supports multiple recipients (comma-separated), and international codes are recommended but not always required. Even if you don't know the recipient's number, scan the QR code and fill in the recipients on your phone using autocomplete. All data processing happens within your browser; nothing is sent to a server. Give it a try!

(sethmlarson.dev)

Development

Unofficial Apple Developer Documentation to Markdown Converter

2025-08-29

This unofficial tool converts single Apple Developer pages to Markdown on demand. It doesn't crawl, spider, or bulk download; it respects authentication and security measures; and it implements rate limiting to avoid overloading Apple's servers. Content is cached briefly for performance (around 30 minutes), but no permanent archives are kept. All copyrights remain with Apple. Each converted page links back to the original. Use is subject to Apple's Terms of Use and applicable law.

(sosumi.ai)

Development Apple Developer converter

Sig Sauer P320 FMECA Leak Escalates in Appeals Court

2025-08-29

The legal battle over the secrecy of Sig Sauer's P320's Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) document intensifies. The Trace newsroom intervened in the appeal, pushing for the release of key records and highlighting Practical Shooting Insights' role in publishing the unredacted document. Sig Sauer counters with national security concerns, but the FMECA has been widely disseminated online, including a discussion by a Sig Sauer executive who directed listeners to the website. The court will decide whether to allow intervention and whether to uphold the strong presumption of public access to class-certification records. The case has significant implications for consumer protection and product safety.

(practicalshootinginsights.com)

Tech

Hacker News Emoji Mystery: Length 36?

2025-08-29

A post on Hacker News sparked a discussion about the display of emojis. The author noticed that Hacker News seems to handle emojis in titles differently, replacing them with spaces or converting them into character encodings to fit the 80-column display limit. Tests revealed that a single emoji could have a length of 36, contrasting with its expected length. The post explores Hacker News's emoji handling mechanism and the variations in emoji display across different browsers and devices.

(zaerl.com)

Misc

Efficient Rubik's Cube Solving via Learned Representations: No Hand-Crafted Heuristics Needed

2025-08-29

Classical AI separates perception (spatial representation learning) from planning (temporal reasoning via search). This work explores representations capturing both spatial and temporal structure. Standard temporal contrastive learning often fails due to spurious features. The authors introduce Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning (CRTR), using negative sampling to remove these features and improve temporal reasoning. CRTR excels on complex temporal tasks like Sokoban and Rubik's Cube, solving the latter faster than BestFS (albeit with longer solutions). Remarkably, this is the first demonstration of efficiently solving arbitrary Rubik's Cube states using only learned representations, eliminating the need for hand-crafted search heuristics.

(princeton-rl.github.io)

AI Temporal Reasoning Contrastive Learning

GOP Launches Probe into Wikipedia: A Conservative Assault on the Information Ecosystem?

2025-08-29

GOP Launches Probe into Wikipedia: A Conservative Assault on the Information Ecosystem?

Republican Representatives James Comer and Nancy Mace are investigating Wikipedia, alleging a search for evidence of bias, particularly anti-Israel sentiment. This is seen as part of a broader conservative effort to control the information ecosystem, following attempts to control social media and defund public broadcasting. The investigation's outcome and potential actions remain unclear, but are sure to be controversial.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech information control

Midday's AI-Powered Reconciliation Engine: Automating the Tedious Task

2025-08-29

Midday's AI-Powered Reconciliation Engine: Automating the Tedious Task

Midday has developed an automated financial reconciliation engine that leverages multi-dimensional matching and vector embeddings to achieve high accuracy and efficiency. The engine preprocesses and enriches data, using 768-dimensional embeddings to understand the semantic meaning of transactions and receipts. An adaptive thresholding system and machine learning algorithms further refine accuracy over time, based on user feedback. The result? Businesses save hours weekly on reconciliation, freeing up time for strategic tasks. This automation also paves the way for advanced financial analysis.

(midday.ai)

Development financial automation

Facebook Secretly Uploads User Photos to the Cloud?

2025-08-29

Facebook Secretly Uploads User Photos to the Cloud?

Meta, Facebook's parent company, is testing a new feature that secretly uploads users' phone photos and videos to the cloud without explicit consent, using them to generate AI-powered suggestions like collages, monthly recaps, and themed albums. While Meta claims the feature is opt-in and prompts users, some report never seeing the prompt and finding the feature enabled by default. This raises serious privacy concerns as Meta accesses users' private, unshared photos and videos. The test is currently limited to the US and Canada, excluding Illinois and Texas due to privacy laws.

(www.zdnet.com)

Tech Facebook Privacy

How Likely Is a Bitcoin Address Typo to Cause a Problem?

2025-08-29

Concerns exist about accidentally sending Bitcoin to the wrong address due to typos. This article uses checksum probabilities, the vast size of the address space, and edit distance calculations to demonstrate the extremely low likelihood of this happening. Even considering addresses that are a small edit distance apart, the probability of a typo leading to a collision with another valid address in the enormous address space is negligible. Therefore, address typos are not a major risk in using Bitcoin.

(www.johndcook.com)

Tech

C# Nullable Pitfalls: When T? Isn't What You Think

2025-08-29

C#'s reuse of `T?` syntax for both nullable value types and nullable reference types creates confusion. For value types, `T?` is syntactic sugar for `Nullable`, representing distinct types. However, for reference types, `T?` is merely an intent marker; after compilation, `T?` and `T` are the same type. This difference leads to compilation errors when writing generic methods. The article demonstrates this issue with a `SelectNotNull` method mimicking F#'s `List.choose`. The solution involves method overloading with type constraints (`where TR : class` and `where TR : struct`) to disambiguate value and reference types. While the problem is solved, the design remains inelegant.

(einarwh.no)

Development Nullable Types

Jane Street Summer Internship Projects: Faster JSQL, Improved Torch Bindings, and Cross-Process Memory Management

2025-08-29

Jane Street Summer Internship Projects: Faster JSQL, Improved Torch Bindings, and Cross-Process Memory Management

Jane Street highlights three standout projects from this year's summer internship program: Leo Gagnon's JSQL evaluator, achieving hundreds of times speedup through indexing; Aryan Khatri's improved OCaml Torch bindings, leveraging OxCaml for safe and efficient GPU memory management; and Anthony Li's cross-process memory management library, eliminating serialization overhead with reference counting. These projects not only boost internal tools' efficiency but also contribute valuable code to the open-source community.

(blog.janestreet.com)

Development

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

2025-08-29

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

This project showcases the new Bluetooth HID Device API in Android P, implementing a simple air mouse and cursor keys emulator on a Wear OS device. Connect to laptops and desktops running Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, or Android TV without extra software – just a Bluetooth receiver is needed. Utilizing the Google VR library for orientation tracking ensures a stable and reliable air mouse experience.

(github.com)

Development Bluetooth HID Air Mouse

Envoy: A Lightweight Terminal Command Logger

2025-08-29

Envoy: A Lightweight Terminal Command Logger

Envoy is a lightweight background utility that logs your terminal commands. It's designed for simple, unobtrusive tracking of your shell usage, useful for debugging, work tracking, or simply remembering past commands. Envoy starts and stops on demand, saves to a custom file, and works on both Linux and macOS with bash or zsh. Installation is straightforward: clone the repo, build the executable, and add a shell hook to your profile (.zshrc or .bashrc). Log and status files are stored with the executable.

(github.com)

Development terminal logging shell utility

MaxBench: Benchmarking GPU Interconnect Impact on Relational Data Analytics

2025-08-29

Researchers introduce MaxBench, a comprehensive framework for benchmarking and profiling relational data analytics workloads on GPUs. It evaluates the performance impact of various GPU models (RTX3090, A100, H100, Grace Hopper GH200) and interconnects (PCIe 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and NVLink 4.0) on workloads like TPC-H, H2O-G, and ClickBench. Moving beyond traditional metrics like arithmetic intensity and GFlop/s, MaxBench proposes 'characteristic query complexity' and 'characteristic GPU efficiency' and uses a novel cost model to predict query execution performance. The study reveals trade-offs between GPU compute capacity and interconnect bandwidth and uses the model to project the impact of future interconnect bandwidth or GPU efficiency improvements.

(vldb.org)

Development

A Convex Polyhedron That Defies Intuition: No Rupert's Property

2025-08-29

A Convex Polyhedron That Defies Intuition: No Rupert's Property

For a long time, it was believed that any convex polyhedron could have a hole cut through it large enough to pass an identical copy through. This is known as 'Rupert's property'. This week, Steininger and Yurkevich proved this wrong! They found a convex polyhedron with 90 vertices, 240 edges, and 152 faces that lacks this property. Their proof involved a computer search of 18 million possible holes, combined with rigorous mathematical arguments. They dubbed this counter-example a 'noperthedron'. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions in geometry.

(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

Misc polyhedron

Synology's Hostile Policies Drive Longtime User Away

2025-08-29

Synology's Hostile Policies Drive Longtime User Away

Longtime Synology user Raindog308 announces he's switching brands due to Synology's increasingly restrictive policies. These include artificial limits on concurrent Samba connections and a new requirement to purchase Synology-branded hard drives, even though those drives offer shorter warranties than alternatives like WD Black. He's considering building a TrueNAS server or exploring options from UGREEN, Buffalo, or other vendors.

(lowendbox.com)

Hardware

LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges Await

2025-08-29

Before a short break, the author shares some thoughts on the current state of LLMs and AI. He points out flaws in current surveys on LLMs' impact on software development, arguing they neglect the varied workflows of LLM usage. The author believes the future of LLMs is unpredictable, encouraging experimentation and shared experiences. He also discusses the inevitability of an AI bubble and the 'hallucination' characteristic of LLMs, stressing the importance of asking questions multiple times for validation. Finally, the author warns of the security risks posed by LLMs, particularly the vulnerabilities of agents operating within browsers.

(martinfowler.com)

AI

Anthropic to Train AI Models on User Data, Opt-Out Required

2025-08-29

Anthropic to Train AI Models on User Data, Opt-Out Required

Anthropic will begin training its AI models, including Claude, on user chat transcripts and coding sessions unless users opt out by September 28th. This affects all consumer tiers, extending data retention to five years. A prominent 'Accept' button in the update notification risks users agreeing without fully understanding the implications. While Anthropic claims data protection measures, users who inadvertently accept can change their preference in settings, though previously used data remains inaccessible.

(www.theverge.com)

AI user agreement

TransUnion Data Breach Exposes 4.4M Customers' Personal Info

2025-08-29

TransUnion Data Breach Exposes 4.4M Customers' Personal Info

Credit reporting agency TransUnion disclosed a data breach affecting over 4.4 million customers. Unauthorized access to a third-party application storing customer data for US consumer support operations on July 28th is blamed. While TransUnion claims no credit information was accessed, a later filing in Texas confirmed the breach included names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers. The incident follows recent hacks targeting various sectors, highlighting the vulnerability of large corporations to data breaches. The perpetrators and their motives remain unclear.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech

US to Put GDP Data on Blockchain: Trump's Crypto Vision?

2025-08-29

US to Put GDP Data on Blockchain: Trump's Crypto Vision?

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the Department of Commerce will publish economic statistics, including GDP data, on a blockchain. This initiative, spurred by President Trump's vision, aims to improve data distribution efficiency across government agencies. While blockchain technology enhances data security and transparency, it doesn't guarantee accuracy. The move comes amid Trump's repeated questioning of US economic data reliability, contrasting with other governments' blockchain adoption, such as Estonia's e-health system and the EU's EBSI project.

(cointelegraph.com)

Tech

Scottish Police Face Data Sovereignty Showdown with Microsoft

2025-08-29

Scottish police are grappling with significant data security and sovereignty challenges in their adoption of Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft's refusal to disclose data processing locations and methods, citing "commercial confidentiality," prevents the police from meeting the stringent data transfer restrictions of the UK's 2018 Data Protection Act. This raises concerns about data potentially being processed in countries lacking adequate data protection, including China and India, and highlights the risks of relying on cloud services without sovereign cloud capabilities. While aware of the risks, the police are constrained by the UK National Enabling Programme and existing contracts with Microsoft, making a swift change of supplier difficult.

(www.computerweekly.com)

Tech

Microsoft Copilot Lands on Samsung TVs: Your AI Sidekick, Now on the Big Screen

2025-08-29

Microsoft Copilot Lands on Samsung TVs: Your AI Sidekick, Now on the Big Screen

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, is coming to TVs, starting with Samsung's 2025 lineup. Users can ask Copilot for movie recommendations, spoiler-free episode summaries, and answer general questions. Copilot appears as a friendly, animated character, bouncing around the screen with mouth movements synced to its responses. It's integrated into Samsung Tizen OS, Samsung Daily Plus, and Click to Search, accessible via voice or remote. Signing in allows for a personalized experience using past conversations and preferences. Supported models include Samsung's 2025 Micro RGB, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame Pro, The Frame TVs, and M7, M8, and M9 smart monitors. Microsoft plans to bring Copilot to LG TVs as well.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

FFmpeg 8.0: Vulkan-Accelerated Encoding and Auto-Subtitling

2025-08-29

FFmpeg 8.0: Vulkan-Accelerated Encoding and Auto-Subtitling

FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed "Huffman," is here with significant updates. A standout feature is the integration of the Whisper speech recognition model, enabling automatic video subtitling. It leverages the Vulkan API for hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding of various formats, including AV1, FFv1, VP9, and ProRes RAW, and supports VVC (H.266) encoding, boosting efficiency. This release also enhances compatibility with older formats like RealVideo 6.0 and niche audio codecs, solidifying its indispensable role in video processing.

(www.theregister.com)

Development Video Encoding

Glowing Plants: Cheap Nanoparticles Turn Succulents into Night Lights

2025-08-29

Glowing Plants: Cheap Nanoparticles Turn Succulents into Night Lights

Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a low-cost, biocompatible phosphor compound that allows succulents to glow for up to two hours after just a few minutes of sunlight or LED exposure. This inexpensive method, involving injecting nanoparticles into the leaves, avoids complex genetic modification techniques. The team found an optimal nanoparticle size for uniform, bright illumination, even enough to light nearby objects. The technology could revolutionize indoor and garden decor, creating stunning, glowing landscapes at minimal cost (around $1.4 per plant). Long-term safety studies are underway.

(newatlas.com)

Tech plant lighting

You No Longer Need JavaScript: Unleashing the Power of Modern CSS

2025-08-29

This article champions the capabilities of modern CSS, arguing that many websites don't require bloated JavaScript frameworks. The author delves into new CSS features like nesting, relative colors, and responsive viewport units (lvh, svh, dvh), showcasing how to build animations, theming, and input validation with CSS alone. Clean code examples illustrate these techniques. The article also proposes improvements to CSS, such as reusable blocks and nth-child variables, highlighting CSS's performance and accessibility advantages. The author promotes a leaner, more efficient web development philosophy and expresses a passion for CSS as an art form.

(lyra.horse)

Development

AI Psychosis: Hype or Reality?

2025-08-29

AI Psychosis: Hype or Reality?

Reports of AI chatbots driving users to insanity have sparked concerns about 'AI psychosis'. This post explores this phenomenon by drawing analogies to historical events and analyzing reader survey data. The author argues that AI chatbots don't directly cause psychosis but exacerbate pre-existing mental issues or eccentric tendencies, particularly in the absence of real-world social constraints. A survey suggests an annual incidence of 'AI psychosis' ranging from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000, with most cases involving pre-existing mental health conditions or risk factors.

(www.astralcodexten.com)

AI AI psychosis

Build Your Own CLI Coding Agent: A Practical Guide with Pydantic-AI and MCP

2025-08-29

This article details how the author built a command-line coding agent using the Pydantic-AI framework and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). By integrating the Claude model, test runners, a code execution sandbox, documentation search, and AWS tools, the agent enables code testing, debugging, documentation lookup, and code modification, significantly boosting development efficiency. The author highlights the importance of MCP in extending agent capabilities and the benefits of building a custom agent to fit specific project needs. Ultimately, the agent acts as an intelligent programming partner, collaborating with developers to write, debug, and test code.

(martinfowler.com)

Development

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